'If Khan Market today -- a neon-drenched spectacle of blingy shops and pricey eateries -- is what it is, it's not due to the dramatic shift in political dispensations, but because free-market India is another country,' notes Sunil Sethi.
A consensus builder, Jaitley was regarded by some as Modi's original 'Chanakya'.
Dubbing many of the existing barriers in Indo-Pak trade as "meaningless", Communications and IT Minister Arun Shourie on Wednesday said that the potential for bilateral trade was tremendous.
Union Divestment Minister Arun Shourie on Friday said the initial public offering to pare the government's stake in five companies - VSNL, Balco, IPCL, CMC and IBP would be done within the next six months.
The department of information technology has constituted a group to study the Chinese infotech market and suggest ways and means to explore that market for Indian companies.\n\n\n\n
Existing guidelines do not bar defaulters from participating in the divestment process, the Rajya Sabha was informed.
The superintendent of Taloja jail has just been transferred. Does that signal a more human phase in prison for the Bhima Koregaon accused? asks Jyoti Punwani.
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The Opposition on Monday demanded immediate release of all political detainees in Jammu and Kashmir, especially three former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti.
Visiting Sun Microsystems chief Scott McNealy announced, on Thursday, that the company would donate software worth $300 million to student researchers in India for non-commercial usage.\n\n\n\n
The government on Thursday ruled out the possibility of privatising postal services in the country.\n\n\n\n
Divestment Minister Arun Shourie said on Tuesday his ministry would push for a meeting of the Cabinet panel of privatisation before February 17, the day the Budget session of Parliament is scheduled to begin.
The shares of car major Maruti Udyog Ltd would be listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange by July 9-10, its managing director Jagdish Khattar said on Monday.
The government planned to adopt the 'China approach' to negotiate with the United States on market access to American firms in India, Union IT and Communications Minister Arun Shourie said in Bangalore.\n\n\n\n
Centre objected to the review petition and said that the basic grounds for seeking review of the verdict are the same as they were in the main petition.
Bowing to pressure from the opposition, Divestment Minister Arun Shourie on Tuesday assured the Rajya Sabha that he would seek an opinion from Attorney General Soli Sorabjee on the legality of the sell-off of HPCL and BPCL.
The government has approved three special economic zones and was considering granting approval for setting up 14 SEZs, Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Shourie informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday.\n\n\n\n
Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday sought a probe into the 'bear cartel' in the stock market referred to by outgoing Divestment Minister Arun Shourie
Human memory about policy issues is short. That alone can explain why many are deliriously happy with his latest slogans and ignore seven years of poor 'doing business' climate, taxtortion, extortionate oil prices, and high dependence on babus and the big State that has kept the enterprise system stifled, observes Debashis Basu.
Communication and IT Minister Arun Shourie said on Saturday that the penalty clauses in the telecom licences would be reviewed to make them more stringent and it would be mandatory for companies to comply with them.\n\n\n\n
Media Lab Asia, the socio-economic project between the Indian government and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be completely recast with the project becoming a fully government-aided
The government on Monday announced a selling price of Rs 750 per share for the public offer of 14.26 crore shares in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
Even Subramanian Swamy, who says he is an ardent supporter of the prime minister, has been taking proxy pot shots at him.' 'At the ground level too, there is resentment from workers and local leaders who have perhaps not got whatever they may have wanted,' notes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
The government will complete the sale of cash-rich oil refiners Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation in six to eight months, Divestment Minister Arun Shourie said on Wednesday.
Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie said Tuesday the SEBI has initiated an investigation into the fall of share prices of BPCL and HPCL.
The government said on Thursday that it would make public offer of 36 lakh (3.6 million) shares in Maruti Udyog Limited in June as part of its divestment in the joint venture car company.
The government on Saturday approved a price of Rs 125 per share for divestment of its 25 per cent stake in car major Maruti Udyog Ltd.
The government plans to set up a separate divestment fund out of the proceeds of privatisation of the PSUs and use it to meet the basic needs of the people.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
We will find it difficult to exceed an average of 5 per cent growth in the medium term, warns Shankar Acharya, the former chief economic adviser.
'So far there is no clear money trail nor an indisputable smoking gun.' 'But that doesn't mean there aren't disturbing questions and a strange resistance by the government to reveal the price, which only adds suspicion to concern,' observes Karan Thapar.
The film tries very hard to critique Bollywood cliches but ends up being one.
"It is reiterated that the petitioners are using documents with the intention to present a selective and incomplete picture of internal secret deliberations on a matter relating to national security and defence," the defence ministry said.
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