New Delhi, Oct.12 (ANI): With the countdown to 2010 Common Wealth Games having already begun and all eyes being on Delhi Government for its preparations, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has sought ...

Bangalore, Aug 31 (IANS) The first meeting of the reconstituted Planning Commission in New Delhi Tuesday will assess the impact of drought and global recession on the Indian economy this fiscal, ...

New Delhi, Aug 12 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will release the draft of the 'Direct Taxes Code' here today. It will be released in the presence of Union Home Minister ...

New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) The following bills were passed during the first budget session of the 15th Lok Sabha that ended Friday: - The Metro Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2009 (Provides for ...

New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) The just concluded budget session was "highly satisfying" for the opposition but an unending "embarrassment" for the Congress-led UPA government, BJP leader L.K. Advani said Friday ...

New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) The government plans to convert the airport regulator Airports Authority of India (AAI) into a company, a senior aviation ministry official said Tuesday. "We are working out to ...

New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) A delegation from the Polish food processing industry is likely to visit India to explore investment opportunities in this country and especially in Bihar, according to ...

New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday declined to comment on its leader Yashwant Sinha's latest criticism of the party leadership. "I don't want to react on this ...

New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The wait for the auction of radio waves to start third generation (3G) telecom services in India has got longer. A key ministry panel that will ...

New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The wait for the auction of radio waves to start third generation (3G) telecom services in India has got longer. A key ministry panel that will ...

New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The country's leading direct-to-home (DTH) service provider DishTV Monday hiked the price of set-top boxes (STB) by Rs.100 each, passing on a rise in customs duty to ...

New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) More than 25 leaders of different disabled rights groups from across the country will come together to protest against the union budget, which they say, ignored ...

New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The road transport and highways ministry may have drawn up an ambitious plan to build 20 km of roads per day, but according to the country's ...

New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Bubbling with excitement, six children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds met the youngest minister of the government, Agatha Sangma, at her office Tuesday to discuss various ways to ...

New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The government Monday constituted an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) to look into matters concerning third generation (3G) spectrum auctions scheduled to happen this year. The ...

Kolkata, July 11 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Saturday cautioned against raising funds through divestment of profitable state-run units to finance the fiscal deficit, terming this disastrous. "The corporate ...

New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The erratic monsoon this year will not hurt the country's food processing sector as there was enough surplus produce for value addition, according to Minister for ...

Agartala, July 7 (IANS) Terming the budget of the central government as "anti-people", the Left Front government in Tripura Tuesday said it has largely neglected the north-eastern region. "Doing a grave injustice towards ...

New Delhi, July 7 (ANI): Top United Nations official Deirdre Boyd on Tuesday said that women's political representation in the local bodies of India is more than the entire elected women representatives ...

New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) India will resume road shows for its latest round of auction of hydrocarbon assets, with the finance minister announcing in the union budget that tax holiday would ...

Budget 2009 tells us what we can't afford; but that doesn't keep us away from buying it. Though, luxurious items have become comparatively cheaper, the price hike of petrol and diesel ...

New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) The 225-year-old Asiatic Society, the pioneering institution promoting Indo-Asian culture, books and heritage in the country, will make its maiden foray into the capital in 2010 ...

New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) Most child rights organizations say the union budget has been disappointing as demands for better fund allocation for primary education and health care have not been ...

New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday lauded the union budget, saying it would "help achieve millennium development goals". "We got to ...

Panaji, July 6 (IANS) Neither Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat nor the captains of industry have acknowledged any specific benefit to the state's crucial tourism industry in the union budget presented ...

New Delhi, July 6 (ANI): As Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the first General Budget under UPA Government's second inning on Monday, various opposition parties opted to highlight its loopholes in ...

Laltonkalan (Punjab), July 6 (ANI): Farmers of Laltonkalan village in Ludhiana district of Punjab have praised the Union Budget unveiled by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday, which focuses on increased ...

Bangalore/Hyderabad, July 6 (IANS) India's software sector Monday welcomed the extension of tax holiday on export profits to 2010-11 from this fiscal, rationalisation of multiplicity of taxes on packaged software and ...

Hyderabad, July 6 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Monday hailed the union budget as the "best in the most difficult times" and said it would greatly benefit his ...

New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday proposed to extend the scope of presumptive tax to all businesses with a turnover of up to Rs.40 lakh. "This will facilitate ...