Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani on Thursday met Finance Minister P Chidambaram and other senior officials in the ministry.
The Finance Ministry's Economic Survey had projected a growth rate of 7-7.75 per cent.
Projects worth Rs 500 crore and above and up to Rs 1,000 crore can be cleared by the Finance Minister.
Calling Rajan "no less patriotic", he virtually ticked off Swamy saying "if anybody considers himself above the system then it is wrong".
The government on Monday said there was "tremendous" need for consolidation to enable banks gain financial muscle and absorb risks in the years to come.\n
"All restrictions have been removed except on savings bank account of Rs 24,000 per week. This (removal of withdrawal limit) is also a matter of time," Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das said.
In order to enhance the existing bilateral economic ties, Switzerland is now keen on attracting Indian investment into the country.
While the gold policy covers every aspect, from sourcing gold to trading and investing in it, experts assert that the policy is incomplete if mining of gold in India isn't promoted.
President Maithripala Sirisena's new Cabinet was also sworn in and Rajapaksa was named the new minister of finance and economic affairs.
Estimated to cost Rs 125 crore, the centre, will be set up in Hyderabad.
PM to launch works on Zojila tunnel, other infrastructure projects.
The FIPB rejected two proposals -- Nigeria's Mokeme Chiwetal Izuchukwu and Lanarth Developers Pvt Ltd.
In a bureaucratic reshuffle, economic affairs secretary Rakesh Mohan will look after the key budget division following the appointment of expenditure secretary D Swarup
The government aims to further bring down the fiscal deficit -- the gap between expenditure and revenue -- to 3.5 per cent.
Indian economy has the resilience to sustain high growth despite shocks like spiralling oil prices, economic affairs secretary Rakesh Mohan said on Wednesday.
The Department of Heavy Industry has been undertaking appraisals of each loss making CPSE to assess the prospects of revival.
FDI in real estate will now be through the automatic route and not through the Foreign Investment Promotion Board.
UP's mills, dominated by the private sector's 94 units, have already expressed their inability to participate in the next crushing season
Oil and Natural Gas Corp, India's largest oil producer, bagged eight out of the 18 oil and gas block awarded today while country's largest private sector firm Reliance Industries managed five.
The government on Monday cleared a Rs 1,718 crore (Rs 17.18 billion) project to set five centres for automotive testing and homologation throughout the country over the next six years.
The country's largest lender, SBI, has reduced marginal cost of funds based lending rate by 0.9 per cent from 8.90 per cent to 8 per cent for one-year tenure, the bank said in a statement.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved ONGC Videsh Ltd's proposal to invest $820 million for acquiring US energy giant ExxonMobil's interests in an oil field located off the Brazilian coast.
The government on Thursday approved setting up of a world-class drug research institute in Lucknow at a cost of Rs 190 crore (Rs 1.9 billion).
The Union government has reconstituted the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as its chairman.
Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram were named in the chargesheet filed by the CBI in the case on July 19.
Announcing the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decision, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said a Special Purpose Vehicle would be set up for the project.
The government on Thursday cleared the long-delayed Sethusumudram Ship Canal Project off Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu that would vastly reduce distance between east and west coasts of India.
Abu Dhabi national carrier had bought 24 per cent stake in Jet Airways for $379 million in April.
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