High food prices pushed the annual rate of inflation based on the new monthly WPI to 1.34 per cent (provisional) for October 2009, compared with 0.50 per cent for the previous month

Sheikh Hasina’s India visit may yield transit agreement

13 Nov 2009

Government to sell 5 per cent equity in NTPC

13 Nov 2009

The government expects to mop up around Rs8,100 crore through sale of a five per cent stake in the country's largest power producer.

Australia offers $70 million more for joint research projects in India

12 Nov 2009

India's industrial production up 9.1 per cent in September

12 Nov 2009

Cumulative growth of industrial production for the first six months of the current fiscal (April-September 2009-10) stood at 6.5 per cent compared to the corresponding period of the pervious year

Inflation rate zooms to 9.16 per cent

12 Nov 2009

Based on the revised wholesale price index, inflation stood at 9.16 per cent (provisional) for the week ended 31 October 2009

Taxing bankers profligacy

12 Nov 2009

Getting the bad boys to pay for future mistakes has a delicious quality of retribution in advance. It has an air of making the banks put aside something for a rainy day, writes CNN's London correspondent Richard Quest, in his exclusive column for domain-b.

RBI wants a gradual exit from stimulus policies

11 Nov 2009

The design of exit strategy from the stimulus programme, especially its timing, will largely depend on the respective macroeconomic and financial market conditions of individual countries.

Import of sensitive items up over 30 per cent in April-August 2009-10

11 Nov 2009

GST to cover almost all goods and services: Pranab

10 Nov 2009

Under the proposed GST regime, both central and state levies will be fully neutralised in the case of exports through simple and harmonised procedures.

Use domestic savings effectively to boost growth, business chiefs tell government

10 Nov 2009

NMDC gives 221 per cent dividend to government for 2008-09

10 Nov 2009

India wants to wind down stimulus measures

09 Nov 2009

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today hinted at India withdrawing the economic stimulus measures extended to various industries hit by the global slump, saying it is hurting the country's fiscal stability.

Support for exports to continue: Sharma

09 Nov 2009

SEZ exports in H1 double despite adverse conditions

06 Nov 2009

Direct tax collection up nearly 4 per cent in April-October

05 Nov 2009

Technology imports to take the automatic route

05 Nov 2009

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