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Give top priority to freight corridor project: PM
SME Times News Bureau | 11 Feb, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked central government ministries and departments and state governments to give top priority to Rs.1 lakh crore dedicated freight corridor project that will substantially reduce infrastructure bottlenecks.
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PM concerned over delayed MGNREGA wages
SME Times News Bureau | 03 Feb, 2012
Delayed payments of wages under the rural job scheme are a cause of concern, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday as Congress chief Sonia Gandhi stressed that complaints of corruption about the UPA government's flagship scheme cannot be ignored.
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Govt will examine verdict on 2G: Pranab
SME Times News Bureau | 02 Feb, 2012
The government will examine the Supreme Court's verdict on cancellation of licences to telecom firms during the tenure of former communications minister A. Raja and will take appropriate action accordingly, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Thursday.
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RBI to start more open market operations to infuse liquidity‎
SME Times News Bureau | 31 Jan, 2012
RBI is open to more open market operations to address the issue of liquidity, said a senior official Monday.
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New act can prevent corporate fraud: Moily
SME Times News Bureau | 24 Jan, 2012
The Companies Bill 2011 will help to prevent growing incidents of corporate fraud, said minister for corporate affairs Veerappa Moily on Monday in New Delhi.
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Govt to modernise power usage calculations: Sam Pitroda
SME Times News Bureau | 17 Jan, 2012
The Indian government is planning to set up a "Smart Meter Task Force" that will look into modernising the "primitive ways" of calculating power usage, tech czar Sam Pitroda said Monday.
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Economy will grow at 7 pc in 2011-12: PM
Gyanendra Kumar Keshri | 09 Jan, 2012
Despite turbulence in developed economies, India's gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 7 percent in the current fiscal and is geared to return to a higher growth path of 9-10 percent in the medium term on the back of strong fundamentals, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday.
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Sukh Ram in coma, delays arrest
SME Times News Bureau | 06 Jan, 2012
Former telecom minister Sukh Ram, who was to surrender in a graft case, has slipped into coma, his counsel told a Delhi court Friday. The 84-year-old has been undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital.
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BJP, Congress seek to pin down each other on Lokpal bill fiasco
SME Times News Bureau | 31 Dec, 2011
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress-led UPA government unleashed a barrage of attacks on each other Friday over the Lokpal bill fiasco, setting the tone for their electoral fight in five states over the next two months.
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Inflation to moderate to 6 pc by end of this fiscal: Pranab
SME Times News Bureau | 30 Dec, 2011
With food inflation reaching to 0.46 percent, the lowest level since April 2006, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Thursday said the overall inflation based on the wholesale price index (WPI) is likely to come down to around 6 percent by the end of the current financial year.
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