Signalling an end to the deadlock in parliament, leaders of all opposition parties met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday morning and agreed to hold a debate and allow both houses to function peacefully. The all-party breakfast meeting agreed to the debate on the issue and to allow parliament to function peacefully from Monday. “The discussion [...]
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday asked the central and western states and public sector banks to increase the agricultural credit flow, provide financial assistance to smaller industries and extend banking facilities in remote locations. “With regard to the credit deposit ratio, I find that except for Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat, all other States in Central [...]
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to attend the Salaana Jalsa (annual congregation) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community at its international headquarters at Qadian town in Punjab’s border district of Gurdaspur, around 250 km from here. “Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will come here to attend Salaana Jalsa on December 27. He will spend several hours [...]
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Wednesday that India’s economy would grow at 9-10 percent in the coming two to three years. “The target of growth of 9-10 percent has been there for a very long period. It is now within our reach and we shall achieve it,” Mukherjee told the 104th annual session of the [...]
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said he will present the full Budget for 2009-10 in the first week of July, assuring economic revival not at the cost of fiscal prudence. In his first formal press conference after taking over as full-time Finance Minister, Mukherjee said the UPA had in its manifesto committed to presenting [...]
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday shared with top officials his concerns over matters afflicting the nation’s finances immediately after taking charge of the Ministry and said his top-most priority is to bring the economy back to high growth path. Sharing his thoughts about how he would like the economic process to be shaped, Mukherjee [...]
As cyclone ‘Aila’ brought life in West Bengal to a halt, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday spoke to Defence Minister A K Antony and sought assistance of the armed forces to help the civil administration in rescue operations. Soon after assuming charge of the Finance Ministry, Mukherjee called up Antony seeking help from the [...]
Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee Sunday indicated that his party’s doors were open to alliances with parties other than its partners in the United Progressive Alliance but said all would depend upon election results. “The ground rule is ‘number’. (The) Magic number, whether individual party or combination of parties, must reach. Therefore, who gets which [...]
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday clarified that the Congress’ poll tie-up with the Trinamool Congress did not preclude his party joining hands with the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) after the elections. “I don’t know of any such pre-condition. I have formed the alliance,” Mukherjee told reporters here, days after Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee [...]
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband paid handsome tributes to his opposite number Pranab Mukherjee Monday three months after raising eyebrows in New Delhi with a statement about Kashmir. Miliband made opportunistic use of a London Book Fair event to praise Mukherjee’s “breadth of vision” following the Indian external affairs minister’s call for an immediate cessation [...]
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