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Former Planning Commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri no moreChaudhuri was almost 63 years of age and was appointed member of Planning Commission in June 2009. He also headed important government comm...
Apparel Export Promotion Council seeks upward revision of duty drawbackChaudhuri, along with committee members, G K Pillai, Shobha L Chary and Gautam Ray, held discussions with the captains of the knitwear indu...
Huge investments needed to fund fuel upgradation: Oil Secretary Saurabh ChandraSpeaking at SIAM Auto Summit, he said the report has been put on the website for comments but not many have commented.
Government sets up a panel to devise new Producer Price Index to replace Wholesale Price IndexThe most important part of PPI will be services, as currently there is no index tracking infl ation in the sector that contributes about 55...
Petrol, diesel prices may be hiked to fund fuel upgradePetrol and diesel prices will be hiked by 75 paise a litre each if the govt accepts panel report that recommends fuel standards be upgraded.
WPI may omit tax component on manufactured productsWPI is the primary gauge of inflation, in which manufacturing constitutes 64.9% weight, primary articles 20.1%, and fuel and power 14.9%.
Transition to Bharat Stage-V norms will require Rs 80,000 crore investments by OMCsFresh investments of at least Rs 80k cr will be needed over the next few years for OMCs to set up new facilities capable of producing the B...
New IIP to compute capital goods growth based on monthly spendThe statistics ministry is likely to change the way growth in capital goods industry is calculated in the revised Index for Industrial Prod...
Drawback rates a big dampener; Govt must review decision: CIIThe government must review the decision to cut duty drawback rates by 26-30 per cent as they will hit India's exports, industry body CII to...
More items under duty drawback scheme for exportersThe revised All Industry Rates of duty drawback, which have been notified, will come into effect from September 21, a Finance Ministry stat...
‘Food worth 44,000 crore goes waste per year’Fruits, grains and vegetables worth Rs 44,000 crore are lost every year due to lack of adequate storage infrastructure, the government told...
Rs 44,000 cr worth of food go waste every year: Sharad PawarPawar said during Question Hour that the value of annual wastage of fruits and vegetables was estimated at Rs 13,309 crore.
Rs 44,000 crore worth of food go waste every year: Sharad PawarPawar said government has already initiated various steps to encourage creation of additional storage capacity and complimented certain sta...
- Oil and gas firms want LNG price for domestic gas
AOGO has demanded that price of domestically produced natural gas should be indexed to rate at which LNG is imported in the country.
- Oil and gas operators including RIL oppose gas price pooling
An association of oil and gas operators, which boasts of members like Reliance Industries, has opposed pooling or averaging of different ga...
- Panel members differ on ethanol blending cap
5 of 8 members of the expert panel on ethanol pricing headed by Plan Commission member S Chaudhuri have not signed the final report submitt...
- Montek retains job at Plan Panel
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh put Montek Singh Ahluwalia, his trusted aide, back in saddle at Yojana Bhavan.
- Panel to monitor oil companies' health
PM Manmohan Singh set up a committee headed by former Cabinet secretary B K Chaturvedi to examine the financial position of oil companies.
- Govt sets up committee to review duty drawback rates
Faced with outcry of exporters for relief from the rupee rise, the government has set up a high-level committee to review the duty drawback...
- Duty drawback scheme to cover more miles
The Centre is planning to extend the scope of the duty drawback scheme for exporters to cover more items and provide adequate neutralisatio...