The PM blamed the UPA regime for the problems in the banking sector.
It also plans to open 5 new centres across India in addition to its two fulfilment centres (FCs) in Mumbai and Bangalore.
None of the politicians who held the position of President particularly distinguished himself. Kalam, on the other hand, certainly stood out.
Dr Singh said the dialogue between the two countries is progressing.
"A very easy solution to suggest is tax-payers must pay because the private sector has defaulted," Jaitley said, adding that bank recapitalisation, where the government puts in more capital in public sector banks to shore up their books, effectively amounted to that. "Therefore, I think let's try and make the private sector pay for their debts or allow somebody else to step in."
Maybe the new methods of measuring GDP helped us get an accurate picture.
'Today the real issue facing the Modi government is not about investment, credit and money supply and all those things economists like to talk about.' 'It is whether your average citizen has confidence in the government not to do something utterly whacky,' says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Zara co-founder Amancio Ortega has toppled Bill Gates to become the world's richest person four times. A peek into the life of the 81 year old even Jeff Bezos can't keep up with!
Leading economists advised Finance Minister P Chidambaram to rationalise taxes in the forthcoming Budget.
Human capital management is now part of all managers' performance reviews.
The G-8 summit provides a useful window seat for Dr Singh to assess the intensity of the 'new Cold War'.
China and India are Asia's top two targets for merger and acquisitions in the financial services space.
Depreciating the rupee against the dollar to boost economic growth has fiscal constraints and monetary limitations
Even if RBI partially replaces the stock of the high value notes, RBI will have to incur thousands of crores of rupees in cost, say economists.
'The Vision of Justice was indeed attained in the courtroom.' 'Not once, but multiple times.' 'But has it translated into reality?' 'Has the success of these sterling verdicts reached the ground?' asks Justice Ranjan Gogoi, the next Chief Justice of India.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh said that India has registered an economic growth over 8 per cent in last three years.
While the British are not generally racist, they don't know that their government is.
India is experiencing a strange dichotomy of not having sufficient jobs on the one hand and not enough skilled workers on the other - making labour force the biggest challenge for the country
The new Louvre Abu Dhabi puts NO Islamic restrictions on what it displays.
'It is like an island of excellence'.
'Unless we start making the products we need, we cannot become a developed country or call ourselves an economic power.'
Adopting a "cautiously optimistic" outlook on the economy, leading economists on Saturday pitched for big-bang reforms and improvement in infrastructure to push up GDP growth to 8-10 per cent in the Eleventh Plan period. \n
The challenges before the government, he said, is to put public sector banks back on track and continue to operationalise stalled infrastructure projects
Prime Minister Modi took over power in mid-May with high expectations that it would strengthen India's fragile macro economy and faltering investment and growth.
The Reserve Bank of India kept its policy interest rate unchanged at a five-year low of 6.50 percent on Tuesday.
'You can't take jobs to people, you have to take people to jobs.'
Double tax exemption on wages paid to women can encourage companies to hire, retain and compensate women better, argues Nitin Pai.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who leaves office this week, was tonight given a warm farewell dinner by Congress President Sonia Gandhi which was attended by a galaxy of party leaders and Union ministers.
Heading to the third year, will Urjit Patel be busy firefighting a currency crisis? Almost no governor of the RBI managed to evade it and Patel perhaps knows it.
All the fixes require either the enactment of a data-protection law, or the amendment of our existing competition law. This can take many years. However, there is an opportunity for the government to act immediately if it wishes to, says Sunil Abraham.
Karachi is the world's cheapest cities to live in.
China is keen to rebalance its economy towards higher consumption, services, technology use and value-added exports. The hope is that its currency will strengthen as the world embraces it as a global trade and reserve currency, say Abheek Barua & Bidisha Ganguly.
At the first meeting of Governing Council of NITI Aayog on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek views of Chief Ministers.
Telecom industry in India is in a mess and it is a result of thinking that more the competition better it is, Vodafone India CEO & Managing Director Marten Pieters said on Thursday.
He believed in investing in companies with strong cash flows
After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's aggressive stance in Rajya Sabha, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said he looked for "alibis' in his speech on the state of the economy and his words reflected "pessimism and negativism".
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