Colombo: Sri Lanka on Tuesday lifted an advisory warning its nationals against travelling to Chennai, which was issued a month ago following an attack on a group of pilgrims visiting Tamil Nadu. "The government of Sri Lanka believes that the travel advisory is no longer required," a statement issued by the External Affairs Ministry said. The travel warning was issued in early September following an attack on a group of...
02:45 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: India's first National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra, who died in New Delhi on Friday night, was a pivotal figure in shaping foreign policy during NDA government and a troubleshooter of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A career diplomat, he had served as India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as Ambassador to Indonesia. He retired as Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry. He had played a...
12:13 AM, Sep 29, 2012
Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan says after the controversial FDI decisions, the government must now focus on banking reforms. ...
08:10 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Colombo: The government of Sri Lanka on Monday issued an advisory for its citizens asking them to refrain from undertaking any visit to Tamil Nadu until further notice in the interest of their safety. The advisory issued by the Sri Lankan government said, "The Government of Sri Lanka is constrained to request Sri Lankan nationals in the interest of their security to desist from undertaking visits to Tamil Nadu until...
11:15 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Raghuram Govind Rajan is the chief economic advisor to the Government of India. Born in Bhopal on February 3, 1963, he graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in electrical engineering. He went on to secure the Master of Business Administration degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1987. He moved to the US and got his doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),...
10:00 AM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: India will have to devise a strategy to deal with the global economic situation which faces serious challenges, new Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram G Rajan said in New Delhi on Wednesday. "World economy faces very serious challenges right now and India is no exception...I hope that over the coming days, I can help in whatever solution we devise", he said after taking over as CEA in the Ministry...
08:57 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: After CNN-IBN reported how his appointment violated a Supreme Court order, Forest Advisory Committee member KP Nyati on Friday resigned from his post. Nyati is a former CII member. The Supreme Court order says persons from mining or industrial interests cannot serve on Forest Committee. The Forest Advisory Council in the Ministry of Environment and Forests looks at key issues related to chopping of forests for road, mining...
12:45 PM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: To add to the woes of the common man who is already reeling under rising prices and blinding inflation, the government has pitched in with a diesel price hike that is likely to come into effect in two months. Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan has said that the hike can be expected any time in the next two months. He, however, added that it was...
08:54 AM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Forest Advisory Council in the Ministry of Environment and Forests that looks at key issues related to chopping of forests for road, mining and development projects has new members. But the appointment of two of the three members has stirred a controversy. The Forest Advisory Council, a statutory body, considers hundreds of proposals on whether a forest should be diverted for non-forest use such as mining and...
01:46 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian economy is likely to grow at 6.7 per cent in the current fiscal year, C Rangarajan, chairman of the PM's economic advisory council (PMEAC) told reporters during the mid-year economic outlook on Friday. The PMEAC has also pegged the inflation between 6.5 and 7 per cent. In recent years, the advisory panel has been overly optimistic about India's economic performance, and the revised forecasts are higher...
12:15 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Panaji: Goa government will take up with the Centre the issue of the travel advisory issued by the UK to its nationals visiting the coastal state and also initiate measures to promote the state as safe destination for tourists. In a written reply to Legislative Assembly, Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said the state government had not yet objected to the travel advisory issued by the UK in June asking its...
09:10 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Melbourne: Australia has issued a travel advisory asking its citizens to reconsider their travel plans to India's Northeastern states of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura. Issuing a new advisory on Wednesday, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said, "We advise you to reconsider your need to travel to the Northeastern states of Assam, Nagaland, Tripura and Manipur because of the risk of armed robbery, kidnapping, extortion and terrorism-related incidents."...
11:26 AM, Jul 26, 2012
Mumbai: It was a get-together of a different kind. Three men joined forces to apprehend a swindler who had cheated all of them on different occasions. Vashi residents Anoopam Mishra, Bhupendra Patel and Shailesh Tiwari nabbed the high-flying con artist with multiple cases registered against him in various cities. His modus operandi: pretend to be the economic advisor to Dr Manmohan Singh and swindle his victims. The crook, Ankush alias...
01:56 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Kolkata: The Centre is determined to contain fiscal deficit to spur economic growth and will take action in this regard, the chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, C Rangarajan, on Friday said. "There is a debate between austerity and growth and we have made up our mind to contain fiscal deficit," Rangarajan said on the sidelines of a function on Statistics Day at the Indian Statistical Institute. He...
05:23 PM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: The government has reconstituted the National Advisory Council(NAC) chaired by Sonia Gandhi by dropping three members and inducting two new faces. Mihir Shah, Member, Planning Commission, and Ashis Mondal, founder of the Bhopal-based NGO, Action for Social Advancement, have been inducted in the advisory panel for a period of one year. Noted agriculture scientist MS Swaminathan, bureaucrat-turned-activist Harsh Mander and academician Madhav Gadgil have been denied renomination. The...
01:42 PM, Jun 29, 2012
A day before Foreign Minister SM Krishna's trip, Beijing issued an advisory against travel to India citing protests over the fuel price hike, after New Delhi warned traders against business in Yiwu. ...
02:26 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Beijing: In what is being seen as a tit-for-tat move, China has cautioned its citizens against travelling to India following protests over the increase in petroleum prices, after New Delhi issued advisories warning its traders against doing business in the Chinese commodity hub of Yiwu. An advisory has been posted on the Chinese Foreign Ministry website as well as Chinese Embassy in New Delhi dated June 1 which warned about...
12:31 PM, Jun 04, 2012
India's industrial output unexpectedly contracted 3.5 per cent in March from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday. ...
12:04 PM, May 11, 2012
Washington: After the furore over his remarks to a think tank, Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu feels India will see "some important" reforms in the next six months, including on subsidies and may be partial diesel decontrol and FDI in retail. However, he feels the "biggest reform" GST (Goods and Services Tax) may be tougher because it is good and not everybody wants it to happen under the present regime....
03:08 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Jayant Sinha, partner and MD, Omidyar Network India Advisors, tells Dinesh Narayanan that government trying to micro-manage the economy is not good. Edited excerpts from an interview. Jayant Sinha Age: 48 Profile: Partner and managing director, Omidyar Network India Advisors Career: Was a partner at McKinsey and Co; Managing Director, Courage Capital Management Education: MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School; MS in Energy Management and Policy, University of Pennsylvania;...
10:50 AM, Apr 03, 2012
