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New Delhi, June 18 Having established itself as the backroom office for global businesses with a flourishing outsourcing industry, India is taking steps to expand its electronics manufacturing base to avoid imports, arrest dollar outflows and...
New Delhi, June 17 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday inducted eight veterans into the union council of ministers, evidently with an eye to state assembly elections this year-end, but the exercise was seen as lacklustre with no new or young faces and...
New Delhi, June 17 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to effect a cabinet reshuffle Monday evening with Mallikarjun Kharge, Oscar Fernandes and Sis Ram Ola likely to be included in the council of ministers, sources said.
The swearing in of new ministers...
Mumbai, June 17 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Monday kept key policy rates unchanged, after lowering them in each of its previous policy reviews, and warned that the rupee’s weakness and rise in administered prices – for instance of diesel...
New Delhi, June 17 Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s pet food security bill is not getting delayed and will be passed soon, Food Minister K.V. Thomas said after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deferred a government decree on the flagship welfare legislation...
Patna, June 16 Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) ended its 17-year-old alliance with the BJP Sunday after days of simmering tensions, marking a major split in the country’s main opposition grouping.
In a bitter end to weeks of feuding,...
New Delhi, June 16 Gearing up for the general elections scheduled for 2014, the Congress Sunday made major organisational reshuffle, inducting former union ministers Ambika Soni, Ajay Maken and C.P. Joshi as general secretaries.
Maken will look after...
New Delhi, June 16 President Pranab Mukherjee Sunday accepted the resignations of cabinet ministers Ajay Maken and C.P. Joshi ahead of a cabinet reshuffle Monday, official sources said.
While Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Maken resigned...
New Delhi, June 16 Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s pet food security bill is not getting delayed and will be passed soon, Food Minister K.V. Thomas said after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deferred a government decree on the flagship welfare legislation...
New Delhi, June 15 Petrol prices will go up by Rs.2 a litre, excluding taxes, from midnight Saturday due to the depreciating rupee and hardening of international prices.
Taking into account local sales tax or value added tax (VAT), the effective price...
New Delhi, June 15 Parts of north India, including Delhi, received heavy showers Saturday as the southwest monsoon advanced further into central and northern India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
The monsoon this year had set over Kerala...
New Delhi, June 15 : Krishna Tirath, Minister for Women and Child Development will participate in the tenth Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers’ meeting at Dhaka on 17-19 June, 2013.
The theme of the meeting is “Women’s Leadership for Enterprise”....
New Delhi, June 14 India’s population is expected to surpass China’s around 2028, according to a UN report launched Friday.
The report, ‘World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision’, has projected that the global population...
New Delhi, June 14 The government, which showed a sense of urgency by seeking to bring UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s pet food security bill to fruition through a decree, deferred the proposal Thursday and gave one last chance to bring both allies...
New Delhi, June 14 A joint delegation of industry lobby FICCI and the SAARC Chamber called on Pakistan High Commissioner Salman Bashir here Thursday and expressed hope that bilateral economic relations would prosper under new Pakistan Prime Minister...
New Delhi, June 13 : The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee today (June 13, 2013) inaugurated an audio-visual section in the Rashtrapati Bhavan Library. The audio-visual section brings together archival material procured from All India Radio, Films...
New Delhi, June 13 Enhance India’s prestige and honour in foreign countries through dedicated service, President Pranab Mukherjee told a group of 34 Indian Foreign Service (IFS) probationers who called on him at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
According...
New Delhi, June 13 The government will try to secure passage of the legislation on food security in a special session of parliament after consulting the opposition parties, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters here Thursday.
Food Minister...
Washington, June 13 Growth in India is projected to rise to 5.7 percent in the 2013 fiscal year and firm to 6.5 percent and 6.7 percent in FY2014 and FY2015, respectively, according to a newly released World Bank report.
GDP growth in South Asia as...
New Delhi, June 12 With Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s pet National Food Security Bill stuck in parliament, the government is set to introduce it via an ordinance. Food Minister K.V. Thomas said the ordinance would be considered by the union cabinet...
