The Union Cabinet recently approved the proposal for treating 50:50 joint ownership metro rail companies like DMRC at par with CPSUs for transfer of land. This will allow to transfer/alienation of land including defence land to metro rail companies having 50:50 partnership between the Government of India

The Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has recently told the Parliament that his Ministry has taken several measures to ensure the Current Account Deficit (CAD) be fully and safely financed in the current year. If the CAD is contained at $70.0 billion, it will amount to 3.7 per cent of GDP (as against 4.8 per cent in 2012-13), Chidambaram said.

Interest rate in India is rising on the back of the steep decline in the value of rupee against the dollar in recent months. Experts feel that the depreciating rupee raises domestic interest rate through three ways. First, in order to discourage speculation in the currency market, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) tightens liquidity and raises shor

Analysts opine that the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may require more effective measures to fight the current account deficit or balance of payments and fiscal problems. Though outward foreign investments have increased over the past few years, RBI's curbs will not mean much in actu

Union Minister of Steel Beni Prasad Verma informed the Lok Sabha that domestic production of crude steel in the first quarter of the current year stood at 19.61 million tonne. He further said that steel is a deregulated sector, the role of the government is that of a facilitator providing a conducive policy environment

Net profit of Gujarat Gas rose 91.2 percent to Rs 101.13 crore during Apr-Jun 2013 compared to Rs 52.88 crore in the year-ago period. Gujarat Gas is a subsidiary of GSPC Distribution Network (GNDL), which recently acquired 73.70 percent stake in the firm. Consolidated profit after tax (PAT) of the firm during the quarter stood at Rs 100.6 crore as against Rs 59.50 crore in the preceding quarter. It may be recalled that this is the first time the firm is reporting the consolidated profit afte

The Indian government is mulling various steps to prevent further depreciation of rupee against the dollar. One of the steps considered by the government is to ask financially strong state-run companies to raise debt from overseas investors. According to one estimate, state-run companies could raise $25-30 billion of capital through issue of bond

The Indian government is mulling various steps to prevent further depreciation of rupee against the dollar. One of the steps considered by the government is to ask financially strong state-run companies to raise debt from overseas investors. According to one estimate, state-run companies could raise $25-30 billion of capital through issue of bond

Several state-run banks have announced improvement in the recovery of bad loans as they took steps like setting up specialised asset management recovery branches (ARMBs) for this purpose. For example, Corporation Bank could reduce non performing asset (NPA) through cash recovery and upgradation to the extent of Rs 1,509.30 crore in the fisca