By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 8 (IANS) India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his counterparts from other G20 countries have agreed to maintain financial stimulus packages aimed at bailing out ...

London, Nov 7 (IANS) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Saturday resurrected the idea of the international community imposing a global tax on banks as a repayment for the billions of pounds ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (ANI): Defence Minister AK Antony will be leaving for Japan on Saturday on an official visit at the invitation of his Japanese counterpart Toshimi Kitazawa to review ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the three-day India Economic Summit here on Sunday. The agenda for the Summit will focus on how to ensure India's ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The government Thursday said it would bring in the new direct tax code only after consulting and reviewing suggestions from taxpayers and the corporate sector to ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) With less than a year left for its start, the government Thursday more than doubled the 2010 Commonwealth Games budget to Rs.1,620 crore (Rs.16.2 billion/$344 million). ...

New Delhi, Nov.4 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that the government had received information about entry of goods into the country through smuggled routes and the government ...

New Delhi, Nov.4 (ANI): A team would soon be visiting Switzerland to hold talks with the Swiss authorities in an effort to unearth unaccounted for money stashed away by Indian nationals, ...

New Delhi, Nov.3 (ANI): In his address to the Economic Editors Conference here on Tuesday, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that the country faced many challenges ahead during the coming months. ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) India's rice output is expected to be around 69.45 million tonnes this kharif season, or about 15 million tonnes less than in the previous season, according ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that efficiency of delivery has to increasingly become the focus of Government programmes, as there is an urgent ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said he hoped the ministries of defence and communications and IT would reach a consensus on vacation of third generation (3G) ...

(Cont.) "On the domestic front, this year we have had sub-normal Southwest monsoons, which have obvious implications for agriculture growth and food prices. At the same time there have been widespread floods ...

New Delhi, Nov.3 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that while a growing integration of the Indian economy with the rest of the world has created new opportunities, ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that it is crucial for the country to pursue reforms including in the financial sector, to make the ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Reacting to allegations against former chief minister Madhu Koda for amassing wealth illegally, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said nobody was above law and that his ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said fiscal stimuli packages announced since December last year will continue even though the central bank had indicated a phased exit ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) The erratic monsoon during this year, followed by floods in some parts of the country, could have lowered India's foodgrain output by some 14-15 million tonnes, ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the two-day Annual Economic Editors' Conference in the National Media Centre, here today. There will be separate sessions with the Ministers ...

New Delhi, Nov 2 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the two-day Annual Economic Editors' Conference in the National Media Centre, here on Tuesday. There will be separate sessions with the ...

New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Winter is in the air, so is a cabinet reshuffle. The murmur in the corridors of power is that some cabinet ministers may be given new ...

Chandigarh, Oct 30 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's alma mater Panjab University here has received a Rs.20 crore grant for the expansion of higher education and infrastructure development in 2009-10, an ...

NATIONAL Manmohan unveils vision of India 2020 and new South Asia - Roundup moved at 1434 Indian Oil fire continues to rage in Jaipur oil depot - Roundup Moved at 2050 Apex court says ...

NATIONAL Manmohan unveils vision of India 2020 and new South Asia - Roundup moved at 1434 Deora sets up Committee to probe Indian Oil fire - Lead moved at 1610, Roundup to move ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday defended the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's austerity measures, saying those were a "need" to curtail expenditure and were not mere ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday said he would meet Swiss authorities in December about amending the double taxation avoidance treaty between the two countries. This would help ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday said the government would first assess the economic situation in the third quarter before taking a stand on withdrawing the fiscal ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the senior most member of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, Friday hinted his present tenure may be the last after which ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Even though India braved the global financial crisis better than other countries, a meaningful recovery depends on how quickly some key economies turn the corner, Finance ...

New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) Subir Gokarn, chief economist for Asia Pacific with global rating agency Standard and Poor's, will be appointed as a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of ...