"In national interest, I wish to caution Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh that your dependence on Communist support will prove to be a liability for anything good you many wish to do," the BJP chief said.
'If governance ensured we were poor during the socialist period, it now ensures that we do not get rich.'
He also said the city had a long way to go before it could reach the status of a global city, and said that greater autonomy and better governance of the city would ensure the global city status, says the finance minister.
General Motors also plans to increase sourcing from India over the next 4-5 years to $1 billion annually.
ITC Limited could take its IT business -- ITC Infotech -- public, its Chairman Y C Deveshwar said on Friday.
International Finance Corporation plans to increase its investment to $1.0 billion this year in Indian companies, mostly engaged in manufacturing, infrastructure and financial sectors.
Sunil Mittal, President, CII, met French President Nicolas Sarkozy met in Paris to discuss Indo-France business relations.
UK environment minister Lord de Mauley hosted a round-table meeting here with representatives of mango and vegetable importers and exporters from the UK and India, Deputy Indian High Commissioner to the UK Virendra Paul, and senior regulators from Defra and the Food and Environment Research Agency.
Larsen & Toubro Ltd will shortly file with the Bombay Stock Exchange its plans for a trust scheme for its employees to pick up 15 per cent stake of Grasim Industries Ltd.
Focus on supplies to check inflation.
Indo-US economic relations have vast potential but pending issues like the one about the failed Dabhol power project need to be resolved, US Undersecretary of State Alan P Larson told visiting Indian businessmen in Washington.
The Confederation of Indian Industry in its budget wish list has urged to government to scrap the fringe benefit tax.
The defence minister asked the Pakistani leadership not to talk about using nuclear weapons and get into the idea of committing suicide.
The department of science and technology, Confederation of Indian Industry and Intel on Wednesday signed a statement of intent with a view to promote culture of inventions and innovations among students and youth of the country.
Planning Commission Member N K Singh on Wednesday said there was a need to continue with crucial economic reforms to sustain eight per cent GDP growth.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday unveiled a new scheme for the world's 100 most talented young professionals in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of his vision to make the UK a "beacon" to attract the "brightest and best" from around the world. Addressing the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) annual conference in Birmingham, Sunak told an audience of business chiefs and professionals that control over the country's post-Brexit immigration policy remains crucial. However, he pledged to create "one of the world's most attractive visa regimes for entrepreneurs and highly skilled people" and make use of the "Brexit freedoms" to strike trade deals with "the world's fastest-growing economies".
President of Portugal Anibal Antonio Cavaco Silva on Wednesday said India was now recognised as a success story, a place where "the future is being shaped".
Today, when you buy a door or a window in wood, you are not aware that you are depleting forests. Tomorrow, your wood will have to be certified that it is from a sustainable forest, says R Parasu Raman, Vice Chairman, WGBC.
President AJP Abdul Kalam says India can wipe out poverty through a network of connectivities encompassing a knowledge grid, a healthcare grid, e-governance grid and the knowledge grid.
India is set to give a major push to 'Brand India' in China in an attempt to strengthen its foothold in the country, even as bilateral trade rises at a blistering pace, industry officials said.
The resurgence in confidence in Indian manufacturing was borne out by many examples of Indian companies going global.
The India Today group said on Monday it would launch an English language daily in New Delhi early next year.
ICICI bank CEO and CII president K V Kamath told the media on the eve of the two-day national council in Hyderabad that 'skilling' was the key area and big challenge for the country.
The Inter-Ministerial Group for modernising Delhi and Mumbai airports would shortlist the preferred bidders for the airport revamp joint ventures within the next few days, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Wednesday.
Stating that India is not witnessing a slowdown in investment, Confederation of Indian Industry president K V Kamath said on Thursday that the country would continue to grow at a healthy rate of 8.6 per cent for the next five years.
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