The hoax caller who threatened Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari after the 26/11 attack pretending to be the Indian foreign minister was in fact a Pakistani, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Friday. “It was a big mischief done by a Pakistani. That person made the call pretending to be me. It created a lot of [...]
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Threat call to Zardari post-26/11 was mischief of a Pakistani: Mukherjee
January 29th, 2011 |
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Fiscal consolidation vital to tame prices: Mukherjee
January 8th, 2011 |
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Economic expansion and high fiscal deficit are together leading to unstable price regime and the government needs to revert to fiscal consolidation to control the situation, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Saturday. “Economic expansion leads to fiscal deficit. It is leading to the problem of unstable price regime,” Mukherjee told the 9th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas [...]
Pranab Mukherjee calls for debate on recent scams in Parliament
December 4th, 2010 |
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Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday called for a debate on recent scams on the floor of the Parliament House, and said the government would respond to their questions. Interacting with mediapersons outside his residence in Kolkata, Mukherjee said investigation is going on the other relevant issues. He said he had had two meetings [...]
Kiran Reddy to be sworn in as Andhra Chief Minister today
November 25th, 2010 |
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Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kiran Kumar Reddy will be sworn-in as new Chief Minister of the State on Thursday. He will be sworn in as 16th Chief Minister of the state by Governor E S L Narasimhan. Reddy, 50, was named as the next chief minister after K Rosaiah resigned on Wednesday, citing personal reasons. [...]
2G logjam: Pranab Mukherjee to meet Opposition today
November 22nd, 2010 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will hold another round of discussions with the opposition to break the logjam in Parliament over the 2G scam today. This was decided at a meeting of Congress core group last evening that was attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party President Sonia Gandhi as Parliament. Parliament”s Winter Session that [...]
Govt. aiming at double digit GDP growth in medium term: Pranab Mukherjee
November 20th, 2010 |
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Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the government is aiming at a double digit Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the medium term, and added that there is already an upturn in investment and private consumption demand, revival of merchandise exports and buoyancy in capital flows, which can support this growth. Addressing the [...]
Pranab, Pawar, Chidambaram meet over IPL row
April 20th, 2010 |
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In the backdrop of the Indian Premier League (IPL) row and the probe ordered by the government into its funding, three senior ministers – Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram and Sharad Pawar – met Tuesday in parliament house.
The 15 minute-meeting between the three ministers was held amid reports that IPL commissioner Lalit Modi may quit or [...]
Monetary policy will tamp down inflation: Mukherjee
April 20th, 2010 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday endorsed the central bank’s decision to hike key interest rates aimed at containing inflation without hurting growth.
“The well-balanced measures, which involve raising the repo rate, the reverse repo rate and the cash reserve ratio by 25 basis points each, reflect a mature and balanced view of the needs of our [...]
Australia-New Zealand film festival holding “Rani Mukherjee Retrospectiveâ€
March 11th, 2010 |
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“Indian Film Festival 2010†in Australia and New Zealand is holding special “Rani Mukherjee Retrospectiveâ€.
Calling Filmfare Award winner Rani, 31, “Queen of Bollywoodâ€, it is showing her following Hindi films: Bunty Aur Babli, Black, Hum Tum, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, Paheli, and Saathiya.
Festival is being held at Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth in Australia and Auckland [...]
Congress core committee discusses new governors, Telangana
January 16th, 2010 |
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The Congress’ core committee met here Friday evening to discuss the appointment of new governors in six states and the vexatious Telangana statehood issue, but failed to arrive at any decision.
The core committee, which includes Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party president Sonia Gandhi, union ministers Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram and A.K. Antony and Ahmed Patel, [...]
Need to improve competition in the agricultural market, says Pranab Mukherjee
November 17th, 2009 |
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Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said that there is a need to improve competition in the agricultural market to benefit farmers as well as the consumers.
Addressing a conference on Competition, Public Policy and Common Man in the national capital, Mukherjee said that the ability to make the desired innovative changes would be a [...]
Mukherjee says he does not visualise a conflict on border dispute with China
November 9th, 2009 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that he does not visualize a conflict over the border dispute between India and China.
Talking to reporters after attending the G-20 Finance Ministers meet in St. Andrews in Scotland, Mukherjee said:”I do not visualize any conflict on border dispute between India and China. We have an institutional arrangement, though [...]
Innovation@Intel: Intel Researcher Wins Industry Award for Improving Chip Reliability
June 23rd, 2009 |
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Intel researcher Shubu Mukherjee is being recognized for his contributions to the reliability of microprocessors and other silicon chips by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH). Mukherjee will receive the group’s 2009 Maurice Wilkes Award for the techniques and methodologies he’s developed that have laid the foundation for cost-effective solutions that can balance a processor’s soft error rate (SER) with performance, power, and area. The award is being presented on June 23rd at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture in Austin, TX. Mukherjee is a principal engineer at Intel and the author of a highly acclaimed book titled “Architecture Design for Soft Errors,” published in 2008.