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Government hits back at business leaders, says they are self-serving
28 Nov 2011
The brunt of the government’s attack was that corporate India was putting its own interests before those of the country, including maintaining a studied silence on many important public issues
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Houses adjourned amid FDI din as Bulgarian delegates watch
28 Nov 2011
Both houses of Parliament were adjourned at noon today as the opposition kept up a relentless ruckus over the government’s decision to allow foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail
Government defends FDI in retail trade
25 Nov 2011
India plans ten new nuclear projects by 2017
25 Nov 2011
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Cabinet nod for 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail
24 Nov 2011
While the decision is music to global retail giants that have long been eyeing India's $600 billion-a-year retail business, it may spell disaster for the kirana stores.
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Gillard dumped Rudd over policy shift on uranium exports
18 Nov 2011
Australian foreign minister, Kevin Rudd, said yesterday he was never consulted over prime minister Julia Gillard's shift in policy stance to sell uranium to India.
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India will work in the ambit of its own laws, PM’s short message for US
18 Nov 2011
PM Manmohan Singh’s short message for president Barack Obama on the contentious civil nuclear liability law is that Delhi will make adjustments only within the “four corners” of its own laws.
No bail yet for Reddys in illegal mining case
17 Nov 2011
TRAI proposes to relax M&A guidelines
07 Nov 2011
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