Government policies
Base price for 2G spectrum in 4 circles cut 30 per cent to Rs14,000 crore
07 Dec 2012
The government managed to raise a total of Rs9,407 crore from last month’s re-auctioning of 2G spectrum involving 122 licences against the target of Rs40,000 crore
Retail FDI: SP, BSP bail out UPA in Rajya Sabha also
07 Dec 2012
While MPs belonging to Mulayam Singh’s party staged a walkout just minutes before the voting, Mayawati opted to vote in favour of the UPA government
Defence establishments bleeding money, says CAG
30 Nov 2012
In a report to Parliament, the accounts watchdog has slammed India’s defence programmes for inefficiency and wastage of funds
Reluctant to alter Sec 66(A), centre comes up with ‘norms’
30 Nov 2012
Henceforth any offence under the Information Technology Act can be registered only on prior approval by an officer not below the rank of DCP in urban and rural areas and not below the rank of IGP in metropolitan cities
Rs1,76,000-cr 2G scam a myth: Sibal
17 Nov 2012
No new banking licences till Act is amended: Subbarao
17 Nov 2012
The RBI has already made it clear that it wants more powers, such as the right to supersede a bank’s board, before it allows new entrants in the sector
Spectrum sale fetches government less than Rs10,000 crore
14 Nov 2012
The government was targeting Rs28,000 crore from the sale of 2G spectrum in the GSM band
2G auction fizzles out with only Rs9,200 crore garnered
12 Nov 2012
‘Category A’ circles like Mumbai and Delhi have gone abegging with no bidders, thanks to the high reserve price
SC sees ‘prima facie nexus’ in Aircel-Maxis deal
07 Nov 2012
CBI probe into the Aircel-Maxis deal involving former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and a Malaysian business tycoon “prima facie indicates a nexus”, the Supreme Court observed today
Oil ministry defers CAG audit meet on RIL’s KG-D6 block
31 Oct 2012
Instead, officials of RIL and the petroleum ministry are meeting to break the current impasse over the KG-D6 block
TV digitisation in metros well on schedule
26 Oct 2012
Rangarajan panel recommends revenue sharing by sugar mills and farmers
12 Oct 2012
The committee has suggested doing away with the present mechanism of regulated release of non-levy sugar as also phasing out of the cane area reservation and allowing contract farming
Shome panel bails out Vodafone; recommends against retrospective tax
09 Oct 2012
The committee said retrospective application of tax law should occur in exceptional or rarest of rare cases, and with particular objectives
EGoM moots one-time fee for incumbent telcos
09 Oct 2012
Kejriwal alleges `nexus’ between DLF and Haryana govt
09 Oct 2012
The Haryana government selected DLF for the SEZ deal on the ground that it was the only firm having experience in making a golf course
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