The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, February 17, 2009

GOVERNMENT

POLITICS: ‘It’s not proper for us now to make tax policy changes’
Govt in talks with RBI to raise additional Rs 45,000 crore; MSS unwinding among options. New Delhi, Feb. 16 The Government chose to respect Constitutional propriety over expediency while presenting the Interim Budget for 2009-10. As a result, it ...

POLITICS: Hand it to them
If nothing else, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, appears to have influenced at least the last paragraph of Mr Pranab Mukherjee's Interim Budget ...

POLITICS: The 16th vote-on-account
INTERIM IN NATURE. New Delhi, Feb. 16 Acting Finance Minister Mr Pranab Mukherjee presented the country’s 16th vote-on-account in Parliament on Monday for fiscal ...

POLITICS: Pranab sticks to convention
No one has a right to complain against the absence of fireworks in an interim budget-cum-vote-on-account. It is by definition a temporary authorisation to incur expenditure by a Government which is at the end of its Constitutional term and ...

POLITICS: ‘Overview of 5 years of UPA rule’
The interim Budget was more of an overview of the five years of the UPA Government and there was nothing much in it, said Mr Ravi Pandit, Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer, KPIT Cummins. “This is the time when ...

POLITICS: Swadeshi Jagran Manch opposes new FDI policy
Chennai, Feb. 16 The Swadeshi Jagran Manch has opposed the new FDI policy, which allowed (in its words) the backdoor entry of multinationals into the retail sector and has said that it will muster support against the Government’s ...

POLITICS: Chidambaram’s thumbs up
New Delhi, Feb. 16 The Union Home Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has hailed the interim budget for ...

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