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April WPI inflation lowest since Nov 2009: What Rangarajan, experts have to say

May 14, 2013

India's headline inflation slowed for a third straight month in April to 4.89 percent, a level seen comfortable for the RBI to persist with monetary easing to revive a flagging economy. Here's what the experts had to say. #C Rangarajan #Wholesale price index #ExpertView #WPI inflation
Will roll back FDI in retail if voted back to power: Rajnath Singh

Mar 13, 2013

A serious danger has emerged on the economic front under the Congress-led UPA government in the Centre, he told reporters. #BJP #NewsTracker #Rajnath Singh #FDI in retail #Gross Price Index
CPI stays in double digits, rises to 10.79 percent in Jan

Feb 12, 2013

The vegetables basket in January recorded the highest inflation of 26.11 percent among all the constituents that make the Consumer Price Index (CPI), according to data released today. #Inflation #Numbers #RBI #WPI #Slowdown #Consumer price index #retail inflation

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Guest columnist - Tom Hudson: Don't put too much stock in the Dow index

2013-05-21 09:10:00

General Motors, Citigroup and AIG are not part of the club. Neither is Apple, Google or Netflix. None of those old economy and new economy giants is a member of the most exclusive and meaningless stock index, the Dow Jones industrial average. The Dow mig #Google Inc. #Citigroup #General Motors
Newstalk ZB
Electricity costs bumped up price index

2013-05-17 02:26:00

Higher costs of generating electricity have contributed to a rise in the producers price index. The index, which measures the prices received by New Zealand producers, rose 0.8 per cent in the March quarter. Along with the rises in the price supplying of #Australia #Taranaki, NZ
Calcutta Telegraph
Whiff of gas price solution

2013-05-20 22:14:00

New Delhi, May 20: The cabinet will soon take up an oil ministry proposal to raise the price of natural gas to about $6.7 per million British thermal unit (mBtu) from $4.2 per mBtu now. Though the new proposal is lower than the $8-$8.5 per mBtu that was #New Delhi #Reliance Industries #India

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Why India is concerned about supplying arms to Afghanistan

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Sreesanth and IPL spot fixing: Why history makes it so hard to believe the police

With the glut of information regarding the IPL spot fixing scandal and the three cricketers how much of it can we really trust?
Phaneesh Murthy admits to relationship with employee

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Not just niceties, China and India need to focus on thorny issues

India’s discourse with China has traditionally been trapped in the Mao-ist maze that defines how “friends” ought to conduct themselves. But Chinese statecraft has evolved, and India too must up its diplomatic game.
Why the Indian media gives a damn about poverty

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Here's how the Delhi Police stumbled upon spot-fixing in IPL

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Hero worshipped in Kerala, Sreesanth still innocent in his state

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IPL 2013 KKR vs PWI Live: Yusuf kicks KKR out of the IPL

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Wrong on Ghaziabad: The Kiran Bedi argument for moral policing

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From here on, Sonia-Manmohan dyarchy is a slow train wreck

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