Sharad Pawar

According to Sardesai, there is very little chance of either Mayawati or Pawar withdrawing support from the government immediately. He believes, the Congress government is going to sustain for at least 6-12 months.

CNBC-TV18's Archana Shukla, quoting sources, reports that in a high profile meeting held on Thursday, the GoM has agreed to limit price control only to the National List Of Essential Medicines

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, who is heading a GoM to formulate the drug pricing policy, today said the panel will finalise the proposal within the next two weeks.

Amidst all this, reports about resignation of agricultural minister Sharad Pawar and heavy industries minister Praful Patel from the cabinet is adding to market‘s tensions, said Girish Nadkarni, executive director & head - equity capital markets, Avendus Capital.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to NCP chief Sharad Pawar and called him a valued colleague.

PN Vijay, portfolio manager, www.askpnvijay.com, says that the move of Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel to send in the resignation will blow over.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and party member Praful Patel on Friday sent in their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Home Minister P Chidambaram may head the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on the allocation of telecom spectrum, which was reconstituted today after Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar declined to head it.

The government says IOC, HPCL and BPCL will lose Rs 43,000 crore selling subsidised LPG cylinders and so the government is now looking to cap LPG cylinders per family at 6. But our parliamentarians and MPs should be the first to practice what they preach reports CNBC-TV18‘s Nayantara Rai.

Aditi Phadnis, columnist, Business Standard, explains to CNBC-TV18 that whatever the outcome of this Presidential election, the nation should be prepared to face the Lok Sabha elections in the next couple months, because this government not going to be tenable at all. It‘s just too unstable.

A panel of ministers, headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar today deferred its decision on capping prices of 348 essential drugs.

Commerce Minister Anand Sharma today defended the government's decision to ban cotton exports and said he will personally speak to Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to explain the issue.

A man slapped Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar at the NDMC centre in New Delhi on Thursday. He was later arrested by the police.

The group of ministers headed by Sharad Pawar has cleared the manufacturing policy, reports CNBC-TV18’s Rituparno Bhuyan.

India plans to meet in eight-ten days for decontrol discussions on the sugar sector. M Manickam, MD of Sakthi Sugars, in an interview with CNBC-TV18's Reema Tendulkar and Ekta Batra, spoke on the recent happenings in the sugar sector and the road ahead for the company.

India is expected to discuss easing controls on the sugar sector in a meeting in next 8-10 days, The Economic Times reported on Monday citing Farm Minister Sharad Pawar, as domestic output prospects of the sweetener improves and as local prices fall.

The Reserve Bank's drive to tighten its control over co-operative banks has taken a political twist but CNBC-TV18’s Gopika Gopakumar reports that according to the RBI, this was just another day in the office.