Guwahati: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday said the country's economy was resilient to withstand global pressures in the current economic slowdown. "India has the potential to come out of this difficult situation because of its inherent strengths. The strengths are the purchasing power of 400 million middle class citizens and 600 million youth willing to take up challenging missions," he said at the 14th convocation of...
04:42 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Amid concerns of slowdown in economy and shrinking industrial output, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday met leading industrialists and assured them that the government was determined to get back on the growth path. The assurance came at a meeting of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry, attended by Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani, Sunil Mittal and Rahul Bajaj among others. "It was a very positive and...
08:11 PM, Dec 22, 2011
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10:48 PM, Dec 18, 2011
Ahead of the RBI's credit policy meet, Pranab Mukherjee admitted that high interest rates have contributed to the economic slowdown. ...
02:18 PM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: The fear of an economic slowdown has turned to be a real one, as for the first time in recent months, India's industrial economy has actually shrunk, which may lead to job cuts, high inflation and more bearish stock markets. In fact, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has warned of job losses and appealed for urgent measures to tackle the slowdown after the Index of Industrial Production...
08:20 PM, Dec 12, 2011
New Delhi: Amid concerns of economic slowdown and policy paralysis, noted industrialist and telecom czar Sunil Mittal on Wednesday said "business is better than perception". Praising the government for its initiatives to deal with the current economic issues, Mittal said, "I have never seen in a long period of time, the finance ministry being so pro-active in looking up issues...informing us what is going on. I want to say business...
04:59 PM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: India is heading for its worst growth since the credit crisis of 2008-09. Over the last three to four months, there have been clear signs of a slowdown in the automobile sector as well as in the investment and construction sector. Slowdown fear is now turning into a nightmare. Just seven months back, India was talking about achieving 9 per cent GDP growth. Now the Prime Minister's top...
08:51 AM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Playing down fears of a slowdown, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said he is confident of 8.5 per cent growth this fiscal. According to the latest GDP data, the economy is down by more than a per cent compared to the previous quarter. In the January to March quarter, the GDP grew by 7.8 per cent against 8.2 per cent earlier. Last year's economy did grow...
07:42 AM, Jun 01, 2011
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The 2009 festive season has brought back the cheer among the consumers. ...
09:52 PM, Nov 03, 2009
Report says, schools perceived as safer educational investment benefited. ...
08:33 AM, Nov 02, 2009
At IIT-B, average salary offer is down to Rs 5 lakh per annum from Rs 9 lakh. ...
08:44 AM, Oct 15, 2009
The Government is doing its best to reach out to the
aam aadmi. ...
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More than 60 per cent of the companies in India are still hiring. ...
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