New Delhi, July 24: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked states to embrace the Goods and Services Tax from the next fiscal, saying replacement of most indirect taxes by this will help in greater

New Delhi, July 24: Hinting that hugely subsidised power to farmers was hindering the growth of the energy sector and making it unsustainable, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday urged all chief mi

New Delhi, July 23: The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) on Friday revised the growth forecast for the current fiscal to 8.5 percent from 8.2 percent earlier.

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New Delhi, July 23: The European Union today asked India to further open its economy for foreign investments even as the country has taken tentative steps towards liberalising FDI in sensitive defence

New Delhi, July 23: The government today approved 18 foreign investment proposals worth Rs 2,245.32 crore, with the major inflow being accounted for by Transcend Infrastructure for setting up communic

Dalat (Vietnam), July 22: The Indian government has asked its public sector oil firms to seek legal opinion on the impact of the latest round of US sanctions on Iran on their investment in the Persian

New Delhi, July 22: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will Saturday preside over a meeting of the National Development Council (NDC), the country's top policy forum, for a mid-term review of the 11th Five

New Delhi, July 22: Annual food inflation fell to 12.47 per cent for the week ended July 10 from 12.81 per cent in the previous week on back of decline in prices of vegetables, especially potato and o

New Delhi, July 22: The Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC), C Rangarajan, will brief the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on the state of the economy and the growth o

New Delhi, July 22: The Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC), C Rangarajan, will brief the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on the state of the economy and the growth o