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10:34 PM | October 12,2009
With the Index of Industrial Production numbers for August telling a story of recovery, the question of an exit policy becomes difficult to answer
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Sangeeta Singh 02:00 AM | October 09,2009
The ministry of corporate affairs set to announce the terms of recruitment for officials at different levels of the Competition Commission of India
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12:51 AM | September 23,2009
Faculty members of all Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will “strike” work on Thursday to press their demands for better pay and prospects. But is it a strike?
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10:12 PM | July 14,2009
The question that the new minister, Mamata Banerjee, should be addressing is, what next? Instead of answering that, her budget speech was full of populist measures
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Rahul Chandran 12:50 AM | July 10,2009
The minister announced two more non-stop trains to the proposed 12 and said two of the 14 would start running within a month
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PTI 11:37 AM | July 02,2009
The budget in a way would reflect Mamata’s vision for the railways in the coming years and means of generating resources for key projects
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Manish Sabharwal 01:15 AM | June 16,2009
Price controls are impeding private education, an unintended effect of the Sixth Pay Commission
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PTI 12:09 PM | June 12,2009
Till a new pay commission is appointed and our demands are accepted, the doctors at the primary health centres, medical college and government hospitals will not accept their pay
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PTI 10:34 PM | June 02,2009
The ministry is likely to shell out around Rs14,000 crore towards the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission in the current fiscal
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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty and Mobis Philipose 01:15 AM | March 24,2009
If rural demand is indeed offsetting weakness in other parts of the economy, then that should result in an increase in the share of agriculture in GDP
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Our View 10:47 PM | March 01,2009
It is not just the headline news - that quarterly growth plummeted from 7.6% in Q2 to 5.3% in Q3 - that is cause for worry. What is even more troubling is the fact that growth has been propped up by the surge in government spending on staff salaries
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PTI 02:04 PM | February 26,2009
Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes, however, said there will be no amendment to the Employees’ Pension Scheme 1995 in the wake of Sixth Central Pay Commission as the two issues are not related
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PTI 01:31 PM | January 19,2009
The pay review committee is unlikely to recommend any change in the four-tier structure in the faculty in IITs
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Our View 09:51 PM | December 22,2008
Slower economic growth is likely to result in lower value-added tax which contributes nearly 42% to the states’ tax kitty
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Sushant K. Singh and Rohit Pradhan 12:23 AM | November 26,2008
The Armed Forces should not view civil servants as antagonists. A redefinition of their equation is needed
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