Hike in limit on foreign investment in govt bonds among measures to stem rupee slide.
President Pranab Mukerjee was on Thursday accorded a warm welcome as he arrived in the state for his five-day sojourn amid the serene climes of 'The Retreat', surrounded with thick pine forests near Shimla.
Launching a fresh attack on United Progressive Alliance's presidential nominee Pranab Mukerjee, Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Friday alleged that his signatures on the papers he put in while resigning from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata were not genuine.
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Hailing Indian Space Research Organisation for its track record in launches, President Pranab Mukerjee on Monday said the country was looking forward to the success of homegrown GSLV mission.
News agencies, which fulfill certain criteria, are to be exempted from payment of service tax, Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee said on Friday.
Though Mukherjee did not specify a date for the naval exercise, sources told PTI that it will be held in April.
By far the most attractive thing in the Budget 2010 for individuals is the increase in the income tax slab limits. Though the entry level slab for income tax has not been changed from Rs 1.6 lakh (Rs 160,000), there is a considerable jump in the other slabs.
Biggest beneficiaries would be people having income between 800,001 to 999,999 per annum.
There have been hostilities between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam since the beginning of this year.
Here is a quick round up of what budget 09-10 is expected to hold for the Indians this coming year.
Putting to rest speculations that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was reluctant to address the Parliament -- on the Indo-Pakistan joint statement issued at Sharm el-Sheikh -- the Prime Minister's office has clarified that both the PM and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will speak on the subject.Media reports on Tuesday night had claimed that only Mukerjee would address the Parliament.According to sources, new additions have been made to the PM's earlier statement.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday jokingly stated, "I have become an antique piece," about his transition from an active political life to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. "Of course, it (being the President) has the other side of the picture that perhaps I have become an antique piece in the theatre of Indian economic activities," Mukerjee said.
Going by its past experience of differences between the central bank and the finance ministry, the government might prefer a person who could bridge this gap.
Reactions on the tragic incident have been pouring in since morning. Leaders cutting across various political parties and celebrities have expressed solidarity over the loss of life in the incident and prayed for the speedy recovery of injured.
Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, whose experiment of poor men's banking in Bangladesh helped establish micro-credit movement across the developing world, will address the Indian Parliament in December this year.
With the situation in Ladakh tense and no resolution in sight the trigger to take the India-US relationship to a transformational one is already there, observes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
Prime Minister Singh has assigned a senior Congress leader to placate the President, who is upset with Finance Minister P Chidambaram, reports Anita Katyal.
Pranab Mukherjee's book The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years takes the readers through the economic and social unrest of the period leading up to the emergency, rise and fall of leaders, many splits within the Congress, while promising to offer more in the next two volumes of the trilogy, says Nivedita Mookerji.
For a show that prides itself on being of the people, by the people and for the people, it's strange how in its moments of success, the 'people' were missing, says Sukanya Verma.
The new tax regime proposed by the Modi government may not have acceptance from all corners.
'The only effective defence against a suicide attack is 'pre-emptive' destruction of the attacker,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
'If the government starts playing favourites, if the government acts in a manner which is not transparent, then natural resources which belong to not just you and me, but future generations, they fritter away. The anger against corruption, the anger against India's natural resources being looted is a consequence of the fact that within society there is a huge amount of turmoil and discontentment. Why should an Empowered Group Of Ministers or the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decide the administered price of gas?' asks Paranjoy Guha Thakurta in this exclusive interview with Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.
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