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New Delhi: Strongly supporting media persons’ demand, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said her party MPs will soon meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ensure that the demand for implementation of the wage boards is met. Addressing a large number of journalists...
Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu): Amid tight security, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant returned to full strength on Tuesday after the Tamil Nadu government gave the go-ahead to the stalled Indo-Russian project with officials hoping the first unit would be commissioned “as soon as possible”. “We are happy that the government is...
By Nitya Chakraborty The reforms lobby in the UPA-2 Government was in an upbeat mood on Tuesday afternoon after the defeat of the opposition amendments in Rajya Sabha to the President’s address by a comfortable margin. Out of the total of 245 members in Rajya Sabha, the UPA-2 has...
SINGAPORE: Franklin Templeton funds that focus on developing economies are heavily invested in energy stocks as the firm believes oil prices have room to increase further, the head of its emerging markets group Mark Mobius said on Tuesday. “If you look at inflation and the oil price over the...
India is firmly committed to realise the new bilateral trade target of $90 billion by year 2015. The concessional duty tariff extended by the Indian government to the least developed countries in Africa is expected to step up African exports to India. Stating this in his address at the...
NEW DELHI | (Reuters) – Slowing growth and a fall in commodity prices may help rein in inflation, a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India said on Tuesday, fueling expectations of a rate cut in the central bank’s April monetary policy review. Bond yields and swap rates...
NEW DELHI: India’s infant mortality rate of 47 per thousand live births is worse than its neighbouring countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said. “In India, the infant mortality rate (IMR) is 47 per thousand live births which translates into...
NEW DELHI: The government today said it expects to garner Rs 1,500 crore in revenue from the auction of FM Radio Phase III license, for providing services in 227 cities, in addition to 86 cities covered currently. “Total revenue expectation from three phases of (Phase III) FM radio auction...
The BJP today hit out at the government and the Planning Commission for its claim that the number of people living below the poverty line has fallen, alleging that the Manmohan Singh regime has lowered the daily income level and appears to be setting a “starvation line”. Deputy Leader...
After winning votes in the Lok Sabha on its proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), yesterday, the government survived the Rajya Sabha test too today, defeating BJP and Left amendment motions on the issue. Both the Samajwadi Party and the BSP voted with the government. The SP had supported...