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Besides working out the principles of integration across various cadres and determining the levels and seniority, it had gone into several aspects including pay-scale rationalisation, restructuring and career progression. The three-member committee now f
A fortnight after a committee submitted its report recommending various measures to integrate the 29,000-strong staff of merged Air India, a three-member panel has been formed to examine it and work out a time-frame for its implementation. Civil Aviation
Indian Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister Sharad Pawar (L) talks with Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee during the conference of Food and Agriculture Ministers of the States on prices of essential and public distribution systems... View Photo »
Along with the IIP numbers for November 2011, the recent headline inflation figures indicate some improvement in the overall macro-economic parameters in the second half of 2011-12
New Delhi, Feb 15 (PTI) In order to effectively deal with food inflation, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today asked the states to encourage organised sector in supply management pending a decision on allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-
NEW DELHI: In order to effectively deal with food inflation, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today asked the states to encourage organised sector in supply management pending a decision on allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail.
New Delhi: The government cleared stake sale in its Navratna PSU ONGC on Wednesday. The divestment has been cleared by the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Sources say five per cent government stake in ONGC
Indian Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister Sharad Pawar (L) talks with Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (C) as Minister of State for Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, K.V. Thomas (R) looks on during the conference... View Photo »
I have contacted the Congress high command, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Murshidabad district Congress chief Adhir Chowdhury and requested them to allow me to quit the ministry
Prospects of an early initial public offer by Vodafone Essar are dim, though the company - the second-largest private sector telecom service provider in the country - has made significant headway on many fronts in recent weeks. The company had internally
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee hoped that moderation in inflation would continue in the coming months and pegged it at 6 per cent by March-end as against the earlier estimate of 7 per cent. Inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), st
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (Bengali: প্রনব কুমার মুখার্জী born December 11, 1935, West Bengal, India) is the Minister for External Affairs of India in the Manmohan Singh-led Government of India. A prominent leader of the Indian National Congress in the 14th Lok Sabha, he is known to be a competent party apparatchik, "a prominent Gandhi family... Full Article
Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (2-L), Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister Sharad Pawar (L), Minister of State for Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas (2-R) and Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Nandan...
View Photo »Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee gestures during the conference of Food and Agriculture Ministers of the States on prices of essential and public distribution systems and storage in New Delhi on February 8, 2012. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee inagurated the two-day conference.
View Photo »Indian Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister Sharad Pawar (L) talks with Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee during the conference of Food and Agriculture Ministers of the States on prices of essential and public distribution systems and storage in New Delhi on...
View Photo »Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee (L) and Deputy Minister of State Namo Narain Meena attend a pre-budget meeting with directors of banking and financial institutions in New Delhi on January 19, 2012. Mukherjee will present the national 2012 budget in parliament at the end of...
View Photo »Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee gestures during a pre-budget meeting with directors of banking and financial institutions in New Delhi on January 19, 2012. Mukherjee will present the national 2012 budget in parliament at the end of February.
View Photo »Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrives at parliament house in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. India's government has introduced in parliament a bill to create an anti-corruption watchdog, but activists said the exclusion of the country's top investigative agency...
View Photo »Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrives at Parliament in New Delhi on November 23, 2011. Price rises, black money, and Telangana were among a host of issues that disrupted Parliament on the second day of the winter session.
View Photo »Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrives on the first day of the winter session of Parliament in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011.
View Photo »Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee (L) gestures as he arrives for the winter session in Parliament in New Delhi on November 22, 2011. National Democratic Alliance (NDA) boycott of Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram on the 2G telecom issue, rising prices and demand for a separate...
View Photo »India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) reacts while speaking to Trade Minister Anand Sharma during the inauguration of the 31st edition of India International Trade Fair (IITF) in New Delhi November 14, 2011. Sharma, called the country's recent export data "very disturbing" but...
View Photo »Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (C) poses with a cow that he is handing over to a farmer during the launch of the Cattle Finance Scheme for Marginal Dairy Farmers in Mumbai on November 7, 2011. Through the scheme marginal dairy farmers in Maharashtra state will now be able to...
View Photo »Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia (R) talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (C) as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (L) looks on during the inauguration of the 56th meeting of the National Development Council (NDC) in New Delhi on October 22, 2011. ...
View Photo »Indian Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar (L) talks with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee during the inauguration of the 56th meeting of the National Development Council (NDC), in New Delhi on October 22, 2011. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed concern over the slowing...
View Photo »India�s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee smiles during a business conference in New Delhi October 17, 2011. India is on track to achieve growth of up to 9 percent in the medium-to-long term and should invest in quality infrastructure to keep up momentum in the economy, Mukherjee said...
View Photo »OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria (L) talks to World Bank President Robert Zoellick (C) and India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) at the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at the Finance Ministry in Paris October 15, 2011.
View Photo »IMF head Christine Lagarde (L) shakes hands with India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) next to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy Governor Subir Gokarn (C) at the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at the Finance Ministry in Paris October 15, 2011.
View Photo »IMF head Christine Lagarde (C) talks to India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) next to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy Governor Subir Gokarn before the beginning of a meeting on the second day of the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors on October 15,...
View Photo »OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria (L) talks to World Bank President Robert Zoellick (C) and India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) before the beginning of a meeting on the second day of the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors on October 15, 2011, in Paris.
View Photo »IMF head Christine Lagarde (C) talks to India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) next to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy Governor Subir Gokarn at the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at the Finance Ministry in Paris October 15, 2011.
View Photo »OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria (L) talks to India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) at the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at the finance ministry in Paris October 15, 2011.
View Photo »IMF chief Christine Lagarde (C) speaks with India's Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee (L) before the beginning of a meeting on the second day of the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors on October 15, 2011, in Paris. Finance ministers and central bank governors...
View Photo »India's Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, arrives for a two days meeting at the Cite de l'Architecture in Paris, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. Finance ministers and central bank governors of the world's leading economies are gathering in Paris to discuss how to save Greece from bankruptcy,...
View Photo »Indian Home Minister P.Chidambaram (R), Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (L), and Minister of Foreign Affairs S.M. Krishna (C) sit during a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmmohan Singh and Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang in New Delhi on October 12, 2011. Chidambaram and...
View Photo »Activists from Shiv Sena Hindustan (SSH) burn posters of Indian Home Minister P.Chidambaram and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as they protest the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in New Delhi on September 27, 2011. SSH protested the controversy over finance...
View Photo »India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee speaks at the BRICs finance ministers' news conference during the annual International Monetary Frund (IMF)-World Bank meetings in Washington September 22, 2011.
View Photo »Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (2-L), Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister Sharad Pawar (L), Minister of State for Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas (2-R) and Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Nandan...
View Photo »Along with the IIP numbers for November 2011, the recent headline inflation figures indicate some improvement in the overall macro-economic parameters in the second half of 2011-12
I have contacted the Congress high command, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Murshidabad district Congress chief Adhir Chowdhury and requested them to allow me to quit the ministry
Headline inflation should be between 6 and 7 percent in March-end, 2012
Some proposals have come to us. These are some policy matters and a decision will be taken only after discussing with other important ministers like Finance Minister ( Pranab Mukherjee).
The manufactured inflation and inflation in the power group of items have also declined though only marginally, therefore, continued to be a cause of concern
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has agreed to meet the trade unions after the Union Budget is presented by the government. Singh on his part also demanded establishing National Social Security Authority of India by merging other authorities like EPF, ESI etc and demanded Rs 10,000 per month keeping th...
The manufactured inflation and inflation in the power group of items ... Continued to be a cause of concern
In my 17 years in the sector - I have never seen such a power call.to meet seven top functionaries starting with the Prime Minister and including Pranab Mukherjee, Salman Khurshid, Kapil Sibal, Anand Sharma among other officials - all in just one day, is historic
The manufactured inflation and inflation in the power group of items ... continued to be a cause of concern
When finance minister Pranab Mukherjee went to Washington in June, US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner said he wants to see progress in reforms in banking, insurance and multi-brand retail. Similarly, Britain had said it wants India to open up the multi-brand retail sector
We need to manage our receipts and payments so that our fiscal deficits, sovereign borrowings and debts are within manageable limits
Taking all these opinions, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee told all of us that they would consult the Prime Minister and the cabinet colleagues and come back to us. No body from the government has come back to us. So, we do not know what the government is planning to do
If this trend continues, perhaps we may have the year-end inflation at around 6-7 per cent.
It is after that we would be able to propagate and promote those measures so that the common man is not made to believe that the government had not taken any concrete step or there was lack of willpower on the part of the government. So all the important steps that have been taken by the government was ...
After the month of August, for the first time it (food inflation) has come down to 8 percent
Yesterday, they (Central Government) called a meeting, there it was decided, after hearing, Pranab Mukherjee (Finance Minister) said that he will come back to us, but already more than 24 hours passed, but there is no communication from the government side
Second quarter GDP figure has come. Of course, there was speculation in the market that it would be somewhere between 6.5 percent and to 7 percent and it is 6.9 percent. No doubt, it is well below my projections during the time of the Budget
While replying to the Calling Attention Motion of Gurudas Dasgupta (lawmaker), Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee himself told Parliament that 'we will consult the states and hold wider consultations before taking the decision (FDI in retail). We are not in hurry'. I have failed to understand what caused...
We are trying our best to remove the logjam, but we are not the only party and we do not create logjam ourselves. We always want, we are ready for discussions and we are also ready for carrying on the business in the Parliament in a normal way. But unfortunately, we are unable to carry conviction to our...
Pranab Mukherjee said on the floor of the House (Parliament) that FDI wouldn't be permitted (in retail sector) without consulting Parliament. We want to say that it should be rolled back and Parliament should function
Had it been 10 years ago, this would have elated me. But today, I cannot have that satisfaction because we had reached higher trajectory of growth -- from there we are slipping
We are sending a strong-worded letter to the finance minister (Pranab Mukherjee [ Images ])
We're having multiple problems
We are sending a strongly worded letter to the finance minister (Pranab Mukherjee). When we are trying to have a congenial atmosphere for GST (goods and services tax), this should not be a bone of contention between the Centre and states
Taking into account (the trend) of the last two quarters together, it appears that the GDP growth would be around 7.3 per cent ... The growth performance is not all that disappointing.
