Economy - general
TN targets 11 per cent GSDP growth by 2023
24 Mar 2012
CAG clarifies on alleged coal-block losses
22 Mar 2012
CAG has taken exception to a newspaper report that cited a CAG draft as saying that the country had lost around Rs10,70,000 crore by not auctioning coal blocks
Despite reforms, policy uncertainty to keep India's deficit high in 2012-2013
20 Mar 2012
India's 2012-13 budget, would be mildly negative for its sovereign credit rating on India ratings agency Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today
Poverty level in India declined to 29.8 per cent by 2009-10: report
19 Mar 2012
Poverty levels in Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland increased in 2009-10 while some of the bigger states such as Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh have shown marginal declines in poverty ratios, particularly in rural areas
Budget dinner talk between the PM and the FM
17 Mar 2012
It is a closely guarded secret that the PM hosts the FM every year for dinner on budget day, to help the FM get over the stress and also as a performance review exercise. We have exclusive transcripts from their dinner conversation this year. By Vivek Sharma
PM’s interview on the Union Budget- 2012-13
16 Mar 2012
Prime minister Manmohan Singh explains the budget response to the declining GDP growth, a ballooning deficit at the central and state levels and rising external deficit in a brief DD News interview
Budget 2012-13: Pranab Mukherjee's first exclusive interview after the Budget speech
16 Mar 2012
Shortly after presenting Budget 2012-13, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke to CNBC-TV18's Siddharth Zarabi about the constraints under which this exercise was taken.CNBC-TV18 shares its excusive post-Budget interview with domain-b
Budget 2012-13: Pushing infrastructure to pull industry
16 Mar 2012
Infrastructure investment during the 12th Plan will go up to Rs50,00,000 crore, with half of this coming from private sector