P Chidambaram accused the BJP of making a u-turn on bills like GST after having stalled them during the UPA regime.
IT companies see this as a huge opportunity.
Sensex plunges 322.39 points to over 1-month closing low of 27,797.01; Nifty tumbles 97.55 points to 8,340.70.
Sukanya Verma's nostalgic filmi week!
In the last financial year, GDP growth was 7.3 per cent.
Moily walked from his residence at 3, Tughlak Lane, to the Race Course Metro Station, where he boarded a Yellow Line train and alighted two stops later at the Central Secretariat station, a short walk from Shastri Bhawan, the seat of the Oil Ministry.
The rupee and equity turmoil seem over, with interest shifting to key personnel changes and 2014 polls.
The agency also warned the government of overshooting the fiscal deficit target at 4.8 per cent due to poor revenue growth and pegged it at 5.2 per cent this fiscal.
The trade deficit makes up an important part of the current account deficit, which had touched an all-time high of 4.8 per cent in 2012-13.
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The problems are being compounded by perceptions that India is ill suited to defend the currency in the near-term.
A government panel on Tuesday proposed raising foreign investment limits in sectors like defence, multi-brand retail and telecommunications, to spur investment in the country and tide over the Current Account Deficit woes.
Increased demand from oil importers for the American currency and a weak opening in the domestic stock market also put pressure on the rupee.
Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri, MDC to his students, was beyond compare -- the stuff of tales and legends at the Delhi School of Economics. He was also a good intuitive economist.
P Chidambaram says all options are on the table.
Exports in May 2012 stood at $24.77 billion.
Are we adopting an idea whose time has come and gone? My feeling is, yes, says ex-banker C Joseph Chacko in the fourth article of the series on inflation targeting.
Sectors throw up a wishlist for the Finance Minister.
Bajaj three-wheelers outsell Chinese three-wheelers in Peru. The Pulsar is number one in its category. Nikhil Lakshman discovers in Lima that even though the Chinese are far ahead in investments in Latin America's fastest growing economy, Indian manufacturing and IT are holding its own.
Taxpayer satisfaction is a part of the matrix of key performance indicators of the administration.
Economist Arvind Panagariya tells Suman Guha Mozumder that the rupee is doing a much-needed clean-up job, raising exports and cutting imports.
'Amitabh Bachchan told me, "I don't appreciate other people doing my voice".'
Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar masterfully weaves a compelling human story, says Sukanya Verma.
Hoard cash. There will be plenty of time and opportunity at far lower levels, warns Sonali Ranade in her weekly Market Notes