Emphasising that India has seen large number of reforms in recent years, Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath on January 24 said that even a lull in activities is taken as paralysis since expectations from investors are too high. Nath, who is leading the Indian delegation at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting here, also said that even the US or Europe would not have seen as many reforms that...
04:13 PM, Jan 24, 2013
India's visa liberalisation policy for Pakistani senior citizens did not see any takers on Tuesday, due to which the policy was put on hold, according to sources in the Ministry of External Affairs. Sources say there was no change in the visa on arrival policy for Pakistan, but there could be some technical issue at the local level. ...
02:47 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Despite the tension at the Line of Control, India is continuing with its visa liberalisation to Pakistanis allowing senior citizens, to get visas on arrival at the Wagah Border. But it has been a no-show so far as no Pakistani senior citizen has crossed over from the Wagah Border. ...
02:29 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Srinagar: The recent visa liberalisation pact between India and Pakistan has brought joy and hope among scores of people living in Kashmir, to meet their relatives on the other side of the border. Muhammad Hussain Naqsbandi, 70, who has been pining to visit his close relations in Rawalpindi over the last four decades, is hopeful that he will be able to visit his relatives in Pakistan, after the two sides...
09:41 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Bangalore: India would have been able to avoid corporate frauds and scams in high places had it put in place regulatory mechanisms and certain policies, along with the introduction of liberalisation regime in 1991, Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily has said. The then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh had to "pronounce" liberalisation polices in 1991 as it was "inevitable" and "compulsory" as New Delhi had to pledge gold with Bank...
01:05 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The CPI (M) on Thursday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intention of undertaking major economic reform measures in the near future will "spell doom" for the people. Noting that Singh during a media interaction on Wednesday had given "an indication that major economic reforms are round the corner", senior party leader Sitaram Yechury said this meant that the reforms of financial liberalisation, which the Left parties had prevented...
05:07 PM, Feb 17, 2011
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I was born in a tiny hospital in Kottayam district, Kerala, thirty-two years ago. Electric lights had still not reached my mom's village then. Telephones ...
01:43 PM, May 24, 2010
The IT industry lobby NASSCOM has sought the liberalisation of education sector. ...
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