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K V Kamath, K Morparia on CAG's new audit advisory board
23 Jul 2011
Extending an advisory role to eminent personalities from outside the government, CAG Vinod Rai has constituted a new audit advisory board to improve the focus of public audit
Pasvnath allowed to exit 6 SEZs
22 Jul 2011
Manufacturing policy clears some hurdles
22 Jul 2011
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Government lowers FY'12 GDP growth projection to 8.6%
20 Jul 2011
The government today lowered its GDP growth forecast for 2011-12 to 8.6 per cent from the earlier estimate of about 9 per cent
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Money laundering law to be modified: Mukherjee
19 Jul 2011
Reiterating the government’s resolve to counter money laundering and financing of terrorism, Mukherjee said that a number of measures to improve the anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML and CFT) regime were now in place
Bankers pitch for pause on interest rate hikes
19 Jul 2011
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Foodgrain demand to touch 280 million tonnes by 2020
16 Jul 2011
To meet the rising foodgrain demand Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has stressed the need for a second green revolution that explicitly embraces dryland farming.
Bhakra Dam high on terrorist hit-list, warns IB
16 Jul 2011
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Centre opposes SC order for special probe in black money case
16 Jul 2011
The union government on Friday moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a recall of its order of setting up a special investigation team to probe the issue of illicit money stashed abroad
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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