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October 17, 2014 3:04 PM

Govt to import potatoes for 1st time to check rising prices

Government decided to import potatoes for the first time to augment domestic availability and to check rising prices of the kitchen staple. Agriculture Secretary Ashish Bahuguna said, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation will float tender soon in this regard. He said, tenders will ...

October 16, 2014 9:06 PM

RBI Guv Raghuram Rajan conferred Best Central Bank Governor award

Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has been conferred with the Best Central Bank Governor award for 2014 by Euromoney magazine. The magazine said that Mr Rajan's tough monetary medicine combated the storm ravaging deficit-ridden economy in the recent emerging market crisis. Now h...

October 16, 2014 8:52 PM

Govt to import potatoes for 1st time to check rising prices

Government today decided to import potatoes for the first time to augment domestic availability and to check rising prices of the kitchen staple. Agriculture Secretary Ashish Bahuguna said, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation will float tender soon in this regard. He said, tenders...

October 16, 2014 8:42 PM

Arvind Subramanian to be India's next Chief Economic Advisor

Arvind Subramanian is the new Chief Economic Advisor of India. Talking to media after taking charge, Mr Subramanian said, there is a sense of hope, opportunity and dynamism and Indian economy is expected to grow in the coming days. A US based economist, Mr Subramanian is a senior fellow at the Peter...

October 16, 2014 8:09 PM

Govt decides to import potatoes for checking rising prices

Government today decided to import potatoes to boost domestic availability and to check rising prices of the kitchen staple. Agriculture Secretary Ashish Bahuguna today said, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation will float tender soon in this regard.He said, tenders will be invited...

October 16, 2014 8:07 PM

Arvind Subramanian to be India's next Chief Economic Advisor

Arvind Subramanian will be the next Chief Economic Advisor of India. A US based economist, Mr Subramanian is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is a widely cited expert on the economics of India, China and the changing balance of global economic power. Mr. Subr...

October 16, 2014 8:15 AM

Switzerland to provide info on black money in time-bound manner

Switzerland will examine Indian requests for banking information on a priority basis and provide requested details in a time-bound manner. The decision was taken after a high-level meeting between the Revenue Secretary Shaktikanta Das and his Swiss counterpart State Secretary for International Finan...

October 16, 2014 8:06 AM

Indigo Airlines orders 250 planes worth Rs 1.55 lakh crore

India's no-frill airline IndiGo has placed orders for 250 latest Airbus A-320 neo planes worth 1.55 lakh crore rupees. A Memorandum of Understanding to this effect was signed at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France, by IndiGo's co-founders Rakesh Gangwal and Rahul Bhatia, wh...

October 15, 2014 9:29 PM

Global shares fall sharply on economy fears

Global shares have fallen sharply as concerns about weak global economic growth knock investor confidence.In the US, the Dow Jones opened down almost 300 points or 1.8 per cent at 16,025, before recovering slightly.European markets were also sharply lower. the main Cac 40 index in France fell 2.4 pe...

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