The telecom regulator explains how he's hobbled by government policy and clarifies some parts of his latest recommendations.
Move to impact joint ventures in telecom, insurance, broadcasting.
The UPA government is likely to close this financial year with around a billion dollars (around Rs 4,100 crore) as receipts from divestment of minority shareholdings in four public sector undertakings.
Sterlite had acquired a 51 per cent stake in unlisted Balco as part of the government's strategic sale of its shareholding in March 2001 for Rs 551.50 crore (Rs 5.51 billion).
Petroleum ministry rejects conclusions of two reports ahead of EGoM.
The ban, although described as temporary, is being seen as a knee-jerk reaction by the state government following the attacks on Reliance Fresh and Spencer's stores and has raised several questions over its farm policy.
According to Krishi Bhawan officials in New Delhi, due to the well-distributed rainfall this monsoon, kharif production is set to rise perceptibly and consequently the net sown area will also increase.
The country's leading music companies are grappling with a new problem: how to sell their music. Sale of cassettes and CDs are on the decline, while online sales have been severely undercut by free downloads.
India has asked its top geological agency to explore additional reserves of 20,000 tonnes of gold and diamonds in several states in a bid to reduce the country's dependence on imported bullion.
After the Supreme Court order, the Central government has further made the multi-location research trials of new genetically modified crops tougher.
According to a petition filed by Quadrant in the Delhi High Court, Travel Guru allegedly copied its software solution 'Final Quadrant SuiteCase'.
With prices of pulses playing a big role in the rising inflation rates in India, the government may allocate more funds for research in pulses development.
The proposed India-Iran Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, which the two countries included in their joint New Delhi declaration in 2003, has run into a hurdle.
Defence officials contend that the services do not use spectrum for 'commercial purposes' and therefore do not need to pay for it.
India's public sector steel companies will spend a whopping Rs 230 crore (Rs 2.30 billion) on corporate social responsibility to build 'Model Steel Villages' across the country during the current financial year.
The first Global Agro-Industries Forum will be organised in New Delhi from 8 to 11 April 2008.
The government is considering a proposal to examine foreign direct investment applications on a sector-wise, rather than country-wise, basis to assess their threat to national security.
Move could delay FDI liberalisation in the sector.
The company emerged successful in the revised evaluated bids for the project.
When the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission shot off notices to 14 cement producers on July 25 for allegedly colluding to raise prices, it was New Delhi's latest flank against the industry.
