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Delhi, Feb. 21: Denial of attempts to give statutory backing to the model code of election conduct could not have come at a worse time for the UPA government, at least two of whose ministers have had run-ins with the Election Commission during the...
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67% spending by the corresponding time in the year. Capital needs of public sector banks have been pegged at 3.5 lakh crore over the next ten years. In the recent years the finance ministry was meeting the capital needs on an ad hoc basis, depending on...
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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... View Photo »
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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
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It’s amazing that the party’s main fire-fighter and peace-maker, Pranab Mukherjee, is heading the GoM for this job. Why does the ruling entity, already under siege, seem bent on destroying whatever little credibility it has left? Isn’t it a sure sign...
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The decision was taken after a delegation of the association met Union finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, in New Delhi on Sunday. However, single screen theatres across the city will go ahead with the protest and have cancelled screenings on February 23.
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The reference seems fairly direct. Interestingly, the note indicates that law minister Salman Khurshid - who recently apologized to the EC over his advocacy of minority quotas - sought a review of the code. "The chairman (finance minister Pranab...
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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... View Photo »
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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...
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New Delhi: High interest rates, coupled with adverse global situation, are impacting investment and economic growth, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday. In a globalised world where major developed economies are going through a turbulent...
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Large multiplex chains, however, have withdrawn from the joint strike effort after a meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday, though he refused a rollback. “This is double taxation, as States already levy entertainment tax on us,” said...
About Pranab Mukherjee
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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
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India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrives for a press conference held by BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) members at the IMF Headquarters in advance of the 2011 Annual World Bank - IMF Meetings, in Washington, DC, September 22, 2011.
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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrives at Parliament in New Delhi on August 26, 2011. Rahul Gandhi, widely seen as India's prime minister-in-waiting, waded August 26 into a government standoff with a fasting anti-graft activist, saying his tactics threatened India's democratic...
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Civil Society members Arvind Kejriwal (R) and Kiran Bedi (L) arive at the Finance Ministry for a meeting with Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on August 23, 2011. The Indian government opened talks with aides to fasting anti-graft activist Anna Hazare, as Premier Manmohan Singh offered...
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Indian police arrest a supporter of Indian social activist Anna Hazare outside Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's residence in New Delhi on August 22, 2011. Responding to anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare's call, supporters begun sit-in protests outside the residences of their...
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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrives for the monsoon session of parliament in New Delhi on August 10, 2011. Activist Anna Hazare and his associates are in Delhi to meet a parliamentary panel and put forth their views on the Lokpal Bill, a report said. Anna and his team were...
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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrives for the Monsoon Parliamentary Session in New Delhi on August 3, 2011. As inflation continues to soar unchecked, the UPA has shed its diffidence and accepted the Opposition’s demand to discuss the issue of price rise in the parliament...
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Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrives in parliament in New Delhi on August 2, 2011. The Parliament's 39-day monsoon session is slated to debate or approve 32 new laws including the hard-fought Lokpal Bill, which if passed will arm a national ombudsman with powers to punish...
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Business Leaders Narayana Murthy (L) and Sunil Bharti Mittal (R) watch as Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (2nd L) gestures while talking to business leaders during a meeting in New Delhi on August 1, 2011. India's finance minister met with top industrialists on August 1 to...
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Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee (C) walks with officials as he arrives to attend a function in Kolkata on July 29, 2011. The function was organised by the Management Development Institute(MDI) to launch its first management development programme in Murshidabad, as a part of the...
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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee gestures as he attends a function in Kolkata on July 29, 2011. The function was organised by the Management Development Institute(MDI) to launch its first management development programme in Murshidabad, as a part of the programme for economic...
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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prior to a meeting at the Cabinet Secretariat in New Delhi on July 19, 2011. Clinton's two-day trip follows President Barack Obama's visit in November -- a courtship of India that...
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 25: British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (centre left) sits with India's finance minister Pranab Mukherjee (centre right) and their teams during a bilateral meeting at 11 Downing Street on July 25, 2011 in London, England. Osborne and his...
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 25: British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne speaks as India's finance minister Pranab Mukherjee listens during a joint press conference at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on July 25, 2011 in London, England. Osborne and his Indian...
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British Finance Minister George Osborne (R) escorts Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (2nd R) as they walk along Downing Street in central London, on July 25, 2011. The two politicians took part in 'UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogue meetings' Monday.
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, left, poses for members of the media with India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, right, as he welcomes him prior to their meeting at Osborne's official residence at 11 Downing street in central London as part of the UK-India Economic...
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, left, shakes hands with India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, right, as he welcomes him prior to their meeting at Osborne's official residence at 11 Downing street in central London as part of the UK-India Economic and Financial...
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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, 2nd left, shakes hands with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, in the presence of other dignitaries prior to a meeting at the Cabinet Secretariat in New Delhi, Tuesday July 19, 2011. Clinton is on a two-day visit to India.
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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee poses with a set of new Indian coins during the unveiling ceremony in New Delhi on July 8, 2011. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee launched a new set of coins of denominations of 50 paisa, 1, 2, 5 and 10 Indian rupee coins.
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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (C) is greeted by Indian banks officers during a meeting with the CEO's of the public sector banks and financial institutions during an annual review of their performances, in New Delhi on July 8, 2011. India's annualized inflation growth soared...
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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (L), Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena (C), and Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) K.C. Chakrabarti (R) prepare for the start of a meeting with the Chief Executive Officers of public sector banks and financial...
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