News - Pranab Mukherjee
NEW DELHI, August 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - A U.K.-based Architectural Firm, for Master Planning of Upcoming Mixed use Development Project in Noida, India. On the day of UK India Financial Dialogue, Monday 25th July 2011 and in the presence of Rt Hon Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne And the Rt Hon Finance Minister of India, Pranab Mukherjee, Supertech Limited signed a contract with Benoy Limited for planning and architectural designing of a major mixed use masterplan for a 30,00,000 square feet site in sector 94, Noida. http://supertechlimited.com/images/mohitarorawithchancellorgeoge.jpg Mr.
India's finance minister in his fiscal 2009 budget Monday called for a speedy return to 9 percent growth but investors sold off amid concerns about deficits. In presenting the 2009-10 budget to parliament, Pranab Mukherjee said the first challenge is to lead the economy back to 9 percent growth at the earliest. The budget, the first since the Congress-led coalition of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was returned to power in May, was more focused on rural development, critical for growth. Although India's economy grew by 6.7 percent in the year ended this March despite the global decline, the Economic Times reported it was the lowest since 2003 and down from 9 percent a year earlier. The report quoted Mukherjee as saying the need to return to a higher growth must be balanced against the need for financial austerity. The stock markets, however, were rattled by the deficit forecast in the budget of 6.8 percent of GDP for the year ending March 2010, compared to 6.2 percent in the year ended
Text of report by Indian news agency PTI London/New Delhi, 9 July: Free from the clutches of the Left, the United Progressive Alliance [UPA] government Wednesday [9 July] moved ahead on the Indo-US nuclear deal when it approached the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] for circulating the draft nuclear safeguards accord to its Board of Governors for approval.
By Indrani Bagchi NEW DELHI: A recent decision by India to stop importing power plant equipment from China and instead source it from domestic PSUs may have diplomatic implications within and outside the country.
Text of report by Indian news agency PTI Washington, 24 March: India and the United States on Monday [24 March] urged China and the Dalai Lama to hold peaceful negotiations between them to resolve the pro-independence unrest in Tibet with Washington insisting that dialogue was the "only" policy that is sustainable in the Himalayan region.
