The term of the last chairman of the pension regulator, Yogesh Agarwal, was cut short by the finance ministry in November.
The opposition parties will meet on Monday morning to evolve their strategy in both Houses of Parliament after protests by them on the Hindenburg-Adani issue overshadowed most of the first half of the Budget session.
The Union Budget for 2009-10 will reflect UPA government's ambitious agenda like Rs 3 kg rice or wheat for BPL families, enlarging NREGA coverage and more focus on infrastructure to bring the economy on high growth.
The much awaited implementation of the over Rs 71,000 crore (Rs 710 billion) farm debt waiver and relief scheme got underway on Thursday with public sector banks, regional rural banks and cooperatives displaying names of the beneficiaries at branches.
Chidambaram has not been named as an accused in the FIR and the CBI is yet to file a chargesheet in the matter.
The Finance Ministry is considering a proposal to set up a National Asset Management Company that may act as a nodal agency for taking over bad loans of banks and help revive sick units.
On March 13, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary had tabled the second batch of supplementary demands for grants in the House amounting to a total of Rs 2,70,508.89 crore.
Jaitley can make his innings -- notwithstanding its likely length -- to be a watershed tenure, or just add to the image of the MoD drifting rudderless, says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
As a prelude to a new partnership agreement, senior Vodafone and Essar executives have held joint meetings with officials in the government, including the finance ministry.
Foreign ministers of G20 major economies will meet in the national capital on March 1 and 2 to deliberate on pressing global challenges amid escalating confrontation between Russia and the West over the Ukraine conflict that entered the second year this week.
The NCLT said the new board must hold its meeting by October 8 and come out with a road map before the next hearing on October 31
Reliance Industries Ltd chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
India and Saudi Arabia on Monday called on states to reject the use of terrorism against other countries and prevent access to weapons, including missiles and drones, to commit acts of terror.
An agreement was reached in Islamabad during a meeting between Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and Xu Ziqin, President of state-owned China Shipbuilding & Offshore International Company Limited -- the trade arm of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation.
The government on Wednesday said it is contemplating relaxing norms governing external commercial borrowings to enable Indian corporates access higher foreign capital at low cost.
Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the basis of the information provided by them in their online application, the statement said.
Some restaurants and hotels are adding 'service charges'.
The ITR forms were put on hold by the ministry last month.
A BTech and PhD in police, human rights and social justice, Singh joined the federal anti-money laundering investigations agency in 2009 on deputation from Uttar Pradesh where he was serving as a state police service officer.
It is yet to be decided whether the Rs 2,356 crore (Rs 23.56 billion) Phase One of the project is eligible for VGF or not, a key Finance Ministry official told PTI. \n
Two successive reports, one by Percy Mistry in 2007 and the other by Raghuram Rajan in 2008 had provided the RBI and the finance ministry with blueprints of what to do next. Both reports, unfortunately, was put on ice. The global meltdown saved the RBI. It also saved the finance ministry from having to work on the two reports.
Senior New Delhi-based journalist R Rajagopalan, who has been closely following the Union Budget preparations since 1977, lifts the veil off India's most secretive operation.
After duty cut on imported wine, beer and spirits, the joint working group on Goods and Services Tax has been asked to recommend a new duty regime on goods and services.
Reliance Industries' plans to raise $500 million from overseas markets may suffer a setback after the government decided to "discourage" all external commercial borrowings above $100 million.
Foreign direct investment in many other sectors may be hiked to 100 per cent and procedures for External Commercial Borrowings would be further simplified, a senior finance ministry official indicated on Tuesday.
'It is violation of the Model Code of Conduct.' 'It is a penal offence under the IPC to exert undue influence on voters.' 'Under the election law, it is a corrupt practice.'
India, the US and 12 other members of the IPEF grouping have signed a supply chain resilience agreement that would help mitigate risks of economic disruptions from supply chain shocks and improve crisis coordination. The agreement would help member countries like India to reduce their dependence on China and provide timely information to the IPEF member countries about potential supply disruptions. The COVID outbreak severely disrupted the global supply chain, as most countries were dependent on China for various products like pharma raw materials.
The ICICI board is looking to the retired petroleum secretary to provide 'maturity and sagacity'.
The Covid pandemic has left a question mark on how the central government manages its staff.
If convicted, the offences entail a maximum punishment of seven years.
The pension sector is expected to become the largest financial sector in India in the next five years and there will be a separate law for the sector, a top finance ministry official said on Tuesday.
Power Minister Anant Geete said on Tuesday that the finance ministry is considering a proposal to restart the Dabhol Power plant, now lying idle for nearly two years.
Britain's Cairn Energy has secured a French court order to seize 20 Indian govt properties to recover arbitration award, it is learnt.
'I wonder how people who come to power through democratic means turn out this way.' 'But people of India are strong, and those who think they can hoodwink people, are mistaken.' 'You can fool some people for some time, but not all people, all the time.'
Foreign direct investment limit in insurance sector is likely to be hiked to 49 per cent only after the Lok Sabha elections.
The government will operationalise the interim Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority and come up with the new pension scheme for about 1,00,000 employees from January 1, 2004.
