Economy - general
Chidambaram to seek faster PSU investments
12 Sep 2012
Finance minister P Chidambaram will today meet the heads of nine blue chip public sector undertakings, which are sitting on a cash pile of Rs1.8 lakh crore, to speed up their investment plans
MNREGA work completion rate poor in Karnataka
07 Sep 2012
Five Indian companies make the cut to Forbes innovative list
07 Sep 2012
Five Indian companies — L&T, Hindustan Unilever and Infosys, TCS and Sun Pharma — rank among Forbes magazine's list of "The World's Most Innovative Companies" topped by four US companies.
Government rejects BJP demand to cancel allocation of 142 coal blocks
03 Sep 2012
A Parliament panel report, meanwhile, pointed to the paradox of private parties failing to develop coal blocks allotted to them, whereas state-run CIL is looking overseas to acquire coal assets
India’s GDP growth hits a decade low of 5.5 per cent
31 Aug 2012
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council chairman C Rangarajan, however, feel that the situation would improve over the course of the fiscal
CBI launches raids over NHRM embezzlement
30 Aug 2012
India, world face hard times: new CEA Rajan
29 Aug 2012
India will have to devise a strategy to deal with the global economic situation which faces serious challenges, new chief economic advisor Raghuram G Rajan said today
Rural Indians outpace urbanites in spending growth
29 Aug 2012
Rural spending outpaced urban consumption in the two years up to 2011-12, the first time in nearly 25 years, reveals a new study by ratings agency Crisil
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