While food inflation has turned negative at (-) 0.52 per cent against 16.88 per cent in January 2010, manufacturing inflation stood higher at 6.49 per cent compared to last year’s level of 5.32 per cent

Full text of the CBI Director's speech on black money

13 Feb 2012

Indians hold over $500 billion in secret bank accounts overseas: CBI

13 Feb 2012

Those countries that are said to be the least corrupt have also the largest amounts of unaccounted foreign money in their banks

NREGA funds being diverted to buy SUVs: Ramesh

13 Feb 2012

A status report on the implementation of the job scheme in Assam prepared by Jairam Ramesh’s rural development ministry shows that only 6.3 per cent of the work sanctioned under the programme has been completed.

Government’s outstanding domestic debt tops 33.9 per cent of GDP

10 Feb 2012

India’s industrial production growth at a slow 1.8 per cent in December

10 Feb 2012

The continued decline in the production of capital goods and intermediate goods suggests that any sharp up tick in industrial production is unlikely in the near term

Free trade pact to figure in India-EU summit talks today

10 Feb 2012

Food bill encounters many state-level objections

10 Feb 2012

House panel for raising income tax exemption ceiling

10 Feb 2012

CBDT offers unconventional incentives to drive tax collections

09 Feb 2012

Mukherjee concerned over mounting subsidy bill

09 Feb 2012

In his second broad hint in recent weeks that the budget for 2012-13 would aim at fiscal consolidation, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said he was "losing sleep" over mounting subsidy bill

Cabinet approves national centre for developing cold chains

09 Feb 2012

India’s April-January trade deficit zooms to $148.7 billion

09 Feb 2012

India’s imports grew 20.3 per cent year-on-year to $40.1 billion in January 2012 while its exports during the month grew at a slow 10.1 per cent to $25.4 billion

Direct tax collection up 14.57 cent, indirect tax mop-up on target

08 Feb 2012

UIDAI launches online ID authentication service

08 Feb 2012

Pranab banks on Aadhar to reform public distribution system

08 Feb 2012

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