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Here are some famous quotes from Pranab Mukherjee's three-volume memoir.
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An Empowered Group of Ministers, headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, is likely to meet tomorrow to discuss crucial issues of spectrum price, payment terms and network roll-out obligations for auction of airwaves due before August 31.
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Amid slowdown and decelerating growth, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will meet captains of Indian industry on June 26 to firm up steps to rejuvenate the manufacturing sector and the economy.
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The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee could not take any decision on the contentious issue of spectrum pricing at its meeting today evening.
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Concerned over rising bad loans, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today asked the banks to take steps to manage their non-performing assets (NPAs) which have grown on account of economic downturn.
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India will issue some austerity measures to aid the fiscal consolidation process, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said. Addressing the Parliament, he assured that the government has taken steps to boost growth. He is confident that India growth is intact and it is only the Greek crisis that is pulling the domestic market down.
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A day after some UPA allies forced the government to defer amendment to the Insurance Act, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said in a federal structure with multi-party democracy reforms are possible only with broad consensus after dialogues and discussions.
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High interest rates and slow economic growth in 2011 has adversely impacted the repayment capacity of borrowers, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said today.
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BJP today attacked the government for its in-principle decision to decontrol diesel prices even as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the move was decided in June last year but refused to specify whether it is being implemented.
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India has allowed aviation companies to borrow up to USD 1 billion from overseas to meet their working capital requirement for one year, the finance ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
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Bharat Petroleum Corp is seeking a diesel cargo for early May as domestic supply remains tight on the back of refinery maintenance, industry sources said on Thursday.
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Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said RBI reducing lending rates along with government efforts to bring down fiscal deficit should boost economic growth this year.
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Rajanikant B. Doshi sits behind the shutters in his tiny jewellery shop on one of the narrow alleyways of Zaveri Bazaar market, anxiously turning one of his rings as he weighs the impact of recent tax increases on his 50-year-old business.
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said given the constraints, the government would be happy if inflation remains between 6% and 6.5% through fiscal year 2012-13 starting in April.
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The Health sector has got a total outlay of Rs 34,488 crore in the budget estimates for 2012-13, which is 13.24% more than the budget estimates of Rs 30,456 for the ongoing fiscal.
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today termed the Union Budget as "disappointing" and "inflationary".
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The Delhi Police today got a Rs 526.58 crore increase in the budget allocation for the next fiscal with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee allocating Rs 3,867.33 crore for its operation.
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Passengers travelling in all AC classes and first class will have to pay charges in addition to the recent hike in train fares with the General Budget today bringing journeys in them under the ambit of service tax.
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The budget for the next fiscal year sorely disappointed investors with a higher-than-expected market borrowing programme sending long-end swap rates to near 8-month high, and the benchmark bond yield to its highest in two-and-a-half months.
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The government today earmarked about Rs 212 crore to the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions for augmenting its training facilities and setting up of a National Centre for Good Governance among others in the Union Budget.
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Ford's India unit will increase the prices of its cars as a result of a hike in excise duty announced in the country's federal budget on Friday, its president said in a statement
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The union budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 estimates the average crude price at USD 115 a barrel, said R. Gopalan, secretary of economic affairs in the ministry of finance.
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Standard Chartered Plc's Indian shares rose as much as 20%, their maximum upper limit, after the union budget on Friday proposed permitting "two-way fungibility" for Indian depositary receipts, or IDRs.
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India scrapped taxes on coal imported by power companies on Friday and although the move makes overseas thermal coal more attractive it won't be enough to boost purchases much beyond the 70-80 million tonnes already forecast by analysts for 2012-13.
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Bringing the Prime Minister in the line of fire, BJP today accused him and his ministers for the "choreographed disturbance" in the Rajya Sabha on the Lokpal issue and insisted that since the government wanted a weak ombudsman and lacked numbers, it ran away from a vote.
