The Prime Minister's Chief Economic Advisor Dr C Rangarajan has admitted that a hike in diesel and LPG prices is imminent despite a steep hike in petrol prices last week. While speaking to Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', Dr Rangarajan said the government can soften the blow but fuel price hike is the need of the hour to contain the fiscal deficit. Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to the Devil's...
12:01 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Amid raging protests by parties cutting across the political spectrum for a partial rollback on the petrol price hike, Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu has said that a rollback of any kind will hurt India's fiscal deficit target badly, leading to price increase in general. In an interview with Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', the Chief Economic Advisor said that oil price regulations had to be made in such a...
08:10 PM, May 26, 2012
Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu has said that a partial rollback in petrol prices will hit India's fiscal deficit target adversely. ...
10:28 PM, May 25, 2012
Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to The Last Word. After the Finance Minister's widely reported speech on the economy we ask how serious is the situation? What are the steps needed to tackle it and will the government act? That's with the JD(U) MP NK Singh, BJP treasurer Piyush Goyal, Congress spokesman Manish Tewari and the Executive Vice-Chairman of Ashok Leyland, R Seshasayee. Q: Let's start with the state of...
02:44 PM, May 18, 2012
After the Finance Minister's speech on the economy, it needs to be discussed what steps are needed to tackle it. ...
09:52 PM, May 17, 2012
Government on Monday denied a report that a senior officer in the Cabinet Secretariat was responsible for the leakage of Army Chief confidential letter to Manmohan Singh. ...
09:41 PM, May 14, 2012
It has been a year since former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by the US troops in Pakistan. ...
08:56 PM, May 02, 2012
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Wednesday cut India's outlook to negative from stable, citing its large fiscal deficit and expectations of only modest progress on reforms given political constraints, battering stocks, bonds and the rupee. ...
08:45 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Is the Indian Express story an attempt to damage the image of the Indian army and General V K Singh? ...
11:57 PM, Apr 04, 2012
The big question is can this government survive till 2014 or will it fall apart and stumble into elections? ...
09:38 PM, Mar 15, 2012
The Government has frozen accounts of four NGOs because they were diverting foreign funds to fuel the Kudankulam protest. ...
09:20 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: It was a day of candid revelations on Saturday as former captain of the Indian cricket team, Bishan Singh Bedi spoke his mind and said it was time for both Mahendra Singh Dhoni and maestro Sachin Tendulkar to have a relook at their career graph. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Bedi said that it was time for Indian Test cricket to get a new captain. Here...
08:59 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Former Supreme Court judge Ashok Kumar Ganguly says that former Telecom Minsiter A Raja acted unilaterally in the 2G spectrum mess and that his Cabinet colleagues are not to be blamed. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Justice Ganguly said, "It is not correct to apply the principle of collective Cabinet responsibility in the case relating to the distribution of 2G licenses on a first-come-first-serve basis." Here is the...
07:22 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Has the controversy over the Army Chief's date of birth ended in the government's favour or is it an outcome that suits both the sides equally? ...
08:49 PM, Feb 10, 2012
The BJP has been facing serious problems in Karnataka and Gujarat. Experts discuss whether the party is in trouble. ...
09:04 PM, Feb 09, 2012
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