Chidambaram said he feels that Dassault 'is laughing all the way to the bank', as the NDA government gave a 'gift'.
Slight recovery in growth is expected only in July-September.
Inflation has dropped to 0.48 per cent for the week ended May 2 from 0.70 per cent in the previous week.
The rate of price rise in vegetables stood at 15.15 per cent in August as against 16.88 per cent in the previous month.
Images from Monday's action in the Premier League.
Food prices, which have contributed to a large part of inflation over recent years, have remained benign, despite unseasonal rain.
Gold and silver have been shining bright in terms of adding to the investors' wealth compared with the other asset class -- stocks -- so far this year.
For the week ending January 2, food inflation (prices of non-processed food articles) stood at 17.28 per cent.
The Datsun Go+ is an extended Datsun Go with a third row of seats
The comfort quotient of the Plush New XUV5OO has really skyrocketed, while its driving dynamics remain top-notch, says P Tharyan.
His portfolio was worth Rs 12,333 crore at the end of June 2018. It was worth Rs 10,633 crore at the end of the September quarter. Smallcaps account for the largest number of his stock-picks. Such a fall has now happened for the third quarter in a row.
The rise in overall inflation for the second month in a row may prompt the central bank to go for another round of policy rate hikes in its policy review meeting, scheduled for May 3.
The car is good enough to dethrone the current segment king, the Toyota Fortuner.
The wholesale price index-based inflation remained negative for the 12th consecutive week primarily on high base. Inflation turned negative for the first time in the week ending June 6.
In an important transformation from 'cattle class' to 'cuddle class', Air New Zealand is set to unveil the world's first passenger plane with a radically redesigned interior that will allow economy class flyers to turn their seats into beds.
The issue of CAG and PAC was mentioned in paragraph 25 of the judgment of the top court which had held that there were no irregularities in the procurement of 36 Rafale jets from France.
However, the World Bank has projected India's GDP growth rate at 7.5 per cent for the next three financial years, including the current one.
'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.
A scene of a play and a conversation between two key characters were snipped from the first episode Tanashah, a day after the cast and crew of the nine-part starry political saga on Amazon Prime Video once again apologised and said they had decided to implement changes to address the concerns raised.
Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf traces the journey of PM-CARES from its founding to finally admitting it is not a government fund.
The decline in food inflation is mainly because of falling prices of pulses, wheat and potato, according to the official data released on Thursday.
$3.6 billion worth of aircraft - by today's prices - are lying idle or are in hangers due to poor maintenance and management
Inflation rose to 0.70 per cent for the week ended April 25 on account of higher prices of essential food articles like cereals, pulses, vegetable, milk and sugar.
In the last three years, public sector banks have responded to the RBI's policy rates more strongly than private banks.
BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap indices hit their fresh lifetime highs for the second day in a row
In February, there was no gold import at all, while it stood at 21 tonnes in March 2008 and at 23 tonnes in February last year. Gold on Tuesday declined by Rs 50 to Rs 15,200 per 10 gram level in the spot markets from its previous day's close.
The diesel variants of the vehicle come with Smart Hybrid technology.
Government officials be under confusion.
The Reserve Bank had kept policy rate unchanged in its review on April 7.
Inflation falls to 8.84 per cent for the week ended November 15 from 8.90 per cent in the previous week.
On a yearly basis, potatoes became cheaper by over 46 per cent and onions by over 10 per cent.
Yuvraj represented six different franchises in the lucrative franchise tournament and was part of two IPL winning teams
'Anyone who should be worried about or critical about this new capability of the Indian Air Force, it should be those who want to threaten our territorial integrity'
It can be closer to RBI's perceived comfort level.
The aircraft flew out from the airbase in the French port city of Bordeaux and will cover a distance of nearly 7,000 km with air-to-air refuelling and a single stop in the United Arab Emirates before arriving at Ambala airbase on Wednesday, officials said.
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The trade deficit stood at $6.54 billion in February this year.
Economists caution that the underlying cause could be an alarming drop in demand -- something that's not good for economic growth.
India's exports remained in the negative territory for the 11th month in a row.
After rising for five consecutive weeks, inflation fell to 5.09 per cent during the week ended October 28, compared to 5.41 per cent in the previous week with drop in prices of essential commodities.\n\n
They are worried at more than one forecast of a possibly weak monsoon, reports Dilip Kumar Jha.
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