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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman identified high energy prices among the biggest problems facing the Indian economy in the near future

"We are talking to different countries. Singapore and UAE have all come forward now to make Rupay acceptable in their countries," Sitharaman said at the Brookings Institute think-tank during a fireside conversation with eminent economist Eshwar Prasad. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Sitharaman will hold meetings with major U.S. investors who are members of the USIBC and the US India Strategic Partnership Forum

The one lever that the government could have pulled as it watched private investment decline was to step up public investment

In the time she spent in the vegetable market, she also took selfies and interacted with residents.

K. Chandrashekhar Rao betrayed Telangana and changed his party’s name to Bharata Rashtra Samiti, says Finance Minister

The Finance Minister says India entering an era of robust economic activity

New Delhi The government has put off by one month the levy of an additional Rs 2 per litre excise duty on petrol and diesel that is not doped with ethanol and bio-diesel in a bid to give the industry more time to implement the measure.

During his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio broadcast on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the airport would be renamed after Bhagat Singh as a tribute to the freedom fighter.

While the Indian rupee has continued to hit record lows, editorials by prominent English dailies have differed on the role played by the Reserve Bank of India.