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Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Despite battling a string of corruption scandals, the Congress is hopeful of doing well in upcoming state assembly elections.Pranab Mukherjee has done Enough to get support of India Incs, MNCs and LPG Mafia. During last Twenty years, Investors have M


Despite battling a string of corruption scandals, the Congress is hopeful of doing well in upcoming state assembly elections.Pranab Mukherjee has done Enough to get support of India Incs, MNCs and LPG Mafia. During last Twenty years, Investors have MULTIPLIED their ASSET SIXTY times and general investors got only Nine Percent boost. During last Loksabha Elections, India Incs, Hindutva Forces, LPG Mafai manipulated Mandate with caste Hindu Polarisation. It is going to be repeated once again. Most IMMINENT and Significant Result seems to be WIPING Out Marxists from Bengal as well as Kerala which means NO Barrier on the Way of Global Capital Inflow, Black Money, Economic reforms, LPG Mafia, Displacement, Land Acquisition, Urbanisation, Free market, SEZ Drive, Industrialisation,Economic Ethnic Cleansing! As NON Aryan God Lord Shiva is Hinduised to Kill Dravidian Non Aryan Indigenous Aboriginal Humanscape, the Kayastha Brahamin from Bengal once again Invoked Chanakya and INDRA to kill the Aboriginal majority Mulnivasi Indians! Amid the debate over making it mandatory for companies to spend at least 2 per cent of profits on CSR activities, RIL Chairman and India's wealthiest person Mukesh Ambani today suggested improving corporate social responsibility to Continuous Social Business. I have written on Budget that it is Nothing but Ground work for Economic Reforms and Budget proposals have to be confirmed by Financial Legislation! It is Statiscal Jugglery on the on hand and on the other a MASTER Plan to Kill the Agrarian sector and Rural India. Now Mukesh Ambani is also talking Social Business! My Foot. It is Nothing but STRATEGIC Marketing of Exclusion and Ethnic Cleansing, Massacre and Holocaust!ICC World Cup 2011: O'Brien smashes fastest ton to beat England!This Madding CRICKET Carnival is worse than any kind of ETHNONATIONALISM Climaxed!



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Despite battling a string of corruption scandals, the Congress is hopeful of doing well in upcoming state assembly elections.Pranab Mukherjee has done Enough to get support of India Incs, MNCs and LPG Mafia. During last Twenty years, Investors have MULTIPLIED their ASSET SIXTY times and general investors got only Nine Percent boost. During last Loksabha Elections, India Incs, Hindutva Forces, LPG Mafai manipulated Mandate with caste Hindu Polarisation. It is going to be repeated once again. Most IMMINENT and Significant Result seems to be WIPING Out Marxists from Bengal as well as Kerala which means NO Barrier on the Way of Global Capital Inflow, Black Money, Economic reforms, LPG Mafia, Displacement, Land Acquisition, Urbanisation, Free market, SEZ Drive, Industrialisation,Economic Ethnic Cleansing! As NON Aryan God Lord Shiva is Hinduised to Kill Dravidian Non aryan Indigenous Aboriginal Humanscape, the Kayastha Brahamin from Bengal once again Invoked Chanakya and INDRA to kill the Aboriginal majority Mulnivasi Indians! Amid the debate over making it mandatory for companies to spend at least 2 per cent of profits on CSR activities, RIL Chairman and India's wealthiest person Mukesh Ambani today suggested improving corporate social responsibility to Continuous Social Business. I have written on Budget that it is Nothing but Ground work for Economic Reforms and Budget proposals have to be confirmed by Financial Legislation! It is Statiscal Jugglery on the on hand and on the other a MASTER Plan to Kill the Agrarian sector and Rural India. Now Mukesh Ambani is also talking Social Business! My Foot. It is Nothing but STRATEGIC Marketing of Exclusion and Ethnic Cleansing, Massacre and Holocaust!

ICC World Cup 2011: O'Brien smashes fastest ton to beat England! This Madding CRICKET Carnival is worse than any kind of ETHNONATIONALISM Climaxed!



2 MAR, 2011, 05.32AM IST, VIJAY GURAV,ET BUREAU
Budget leaves investors richer by Rs 2,33,500 cr
MUMBAI: The stock market on Tuesday cheered the Union Budget for the second consecutive day with a record-breaking rally, taking the total addition to investors' wealth to over Rs 2,33,500 crore in just two trading sessions. Sector-specific sops caused a smart rally in many shares after having been battered amid extremely bearish market conditions since January this year. Among prominent sectors, 41 listed banks have added Rs 32,800 crore to investor kitty since Monday. Some of the leading banks rose 1.8-6.3% on Tuesday. While the government has lowered net borrowing target in the 2011-12 Budget, analysts expect the move will lead to an improvement in liquidity in the market.

A provision for infusion of an additional Rs 6,000-crore capital in public sector banks also helped improve sentiment towards the lot, they said. "The government's conviction of achieving a 9% growth and containing deficit at 4.6% is a big positive which helped boost market sentiment on Tuesday," said Almondz Global Securities global head of institutional equity Harjitsingh Sethi.

Banking and infrastructure sectors are likely to benefit the most on account of the Budget which has laid greater emphasis on achieving targeted growth on the back of higher investments in infrastructure development and in other priority sectors. Banking was followed by the oil and gas sector, with the combined market cap 37 companies jumping by Rs 30,600 crore in just two days. The rally in oil and gas shares was led by oil marketing companies, like BPCL, HPCL and IOC which have hiked jet fuel price prompted by soaring crude oil prices in the international market. The government has made a provision of Rs 23,640 crore as cash subsidy to PSU oil retailers for selling fuel below market rates in FY 2012.

FMCG shares also gained sharply, with 109 such companies recording a rise of Rs 17,800 crore in the past two days. Cigarette major ITC led the pack, as the company is spared from any hike in excise duty on cigarettes which was contrary market expectations. The stock climbed 11% to Rs 173.5 in the past two days. The 174 capital goods companies added wealth of Rs 13,800 crore, as Infrastructure and construction companies led by Larsen &Toubro and HCC are expected to benefit from the Budget which made provisions to boost investment in the sector. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has proposed 23% higher allocation of Rs 2,14,000 crore for the infrastructure sector in 2011-2012. He has also proposed to allow various government undertakings to issue tax-free bonds of Rs 30,000 crore in 2011-12.

The funds raised through these bonds will be used for infrastructure development in railways, ports, housing and construction of highways in the country. Apart from these provisions, the finance minister has raised overseas investment limit in five-year corporate infrastructure bonds by $20 billion and also raised income tax exemption on tax-saving infrastructure bonds up to a maximum of Rs 20,000 a year.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/market-news/budget-leaves-investors-richer-by-rs-233500-cr/articleshow/7607835.cms



"The purpose of any business cannot be only profit. Profit for the shareholders is important. But unless entrepreneurs have a larger purpose and businesses that change lives of millions of people, a sustainable business cannot be created," he said at FICCI's Annual General Meeting here.

"We will have to move from a model of Corporate Social Responsibility to a model of Continuous Social Business through enterprise and entrepreneurship," he said. "For that, we will have to create world class institutions with a soul."

"It is important to get the business of businesses right," he said, adding that the primary responsibility of business is social improvement.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance has proposed that companies should spend at least 2 per cent of their annual profits on CSR activities, but the industry has opposed the proposal.

Calling for increased spends from the government in healthcare and education, Ambani said that outlays in healthcare formed only 1 per cent of India's GDP, which he said needs to grow at least five-folds.

"Our demographic dividend, the youth and the young, are largely unprotected and uncared for. We will need to radically transform healthcare delivery to all our people," he said.

"Current food prices justify heavy investment and job creation has to be through agriculture and rural economic growth," Ambani said. He foresees an additional $ 500 billion opportunity for India in agriculture output.

The opportunity in Indian agriculture is as big as it is in energy, he said, adding that the country needs more policies like the liberalisation policy of 1991.

Stating that a large untapped opportunity existed for India to boost its under-leveraged consumer class, Ambani said the country's per capita income is less than $ 1000, one-third of China, while its per capita energy consumption is minuscule.

"Less than 1 per cent of our population uses credit cards for transactions and consumer loans are about 10 per cent of the total loan disbursals, representing an under-leveraged consumer class," Ambani said.

He said that India has grossly under-performed both in expanding access and improving the quality of education.

"In a fast moving world, we have not managed to make our education system contemporary," he said.

Pomp & show mark Mahashivratri

The permanent abode of Lord Vishwanath celebrated the Mahashivratri festival in a grand style on Wednesday.

While lakhs of devotees offered prayers at various temples of Lord Shiva, not only traditional Shiv Baraat but a large number of wedding processions were taken out by pilgrims who visited the city from Maharashtra and Gujarat. Those processions were taken out in their own traditional styles.

The city of joy and pleasure had indulged in the celebration of Mahashivratri from Tuesday evening when thousands of devotees from neighbouring districts had started thronging the city to begin Panchkroshi Parikrama before offering prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple. The huge influx of pilgrims and foreign tourists also left hotels, lodges, guest houses, dharmshalas and even ghats along the Ganga jam-packed. A guest house owner at Munshighat, Gokul Sharma, said after a long time, all rooms of his guest house had been occupied by foreigners. Krishnanand Pandey, another guest house owner in Luxa area, said the pilgrims, especially from Maharashtra and South India, were ready to pay for their stay even in galleries and lobby of his guest house. It was proving difficult to move on many roads and streets like Siddhgiribagh, Sonia and Gaighat as buses of those pilgrims had been parked by the roadsides.

The aim to barricade area between Godowlia and Chowk was clear. It was done to ensure that devotees were entering the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in queue. The queues remained stretched up to Dasaswamedh and up to Bulanal on the other side till late on Tuesday evening. By Wednesday evening, the figure of devotees entering the sanctum sanctorum of KVT had crossed two lakh mark, while long queues still existed outside the temple. The entry of devotees was allowed through Chhattadwar only.

The district administration and police had ensured tight security in and around the city, though no policeman was visible at the frisking points set up at Dasaswamedh Ghat. The gathering of several lakh devotees was also visible at Markandeya Mahadeo temple, situated at the confluence of the Ganga and Gomti in Kaithi area. Devotees had to exercise hard to enter other prominent temples of Lord Shiva including Mrityunjaya Mahadeo, Shool Tankeshwar, Kedareshwar, Omkaleshwar, Tilbhandeshwar, Sarangdev and Rameshwar. All temples in the holy city were decorated to mark the festivity. The traditional Shiv Baraat was carried out from Maidagin to Dasaswamedh in the evening. But, many similar processions were taken out in different localities since morning. Even the elderly women in these groups of pilgrims could be scene dancing and enjoying the festival. The 'thadai' and 'bhang' also remained on high demand.

Meanwhile, around 25-30 Shiv Sainiks were arrested while they were trying to march towards Shringargauri, the disputed site on KVT campus.


Read more: Pomp & show mark Mahashivratri - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/Pomp-show-mark-Mahashivratri/articleshow/7612686.cms#ixzz1FSnvBPX0


Kevin O'Brien smashed the fastest ever World Cup century to propel Ireland to a stunning three-wicket win over England in a Group B match on Wednesday.

An astonishing knock by O'Brien, who clobbered 13 fours and six sixes to reach three figures in only 50 balls, helped the Irish to live up to their reputation as giant-killers as they overhauled England's total of 327-8 with five balls to spare. It was the highest successful run chase in the tournament.

Four years after beating Pakistan in the group stage in the Caribbean, the Irish repeated the feat to dent England's hopes of progressing into the knockout stages of the 2011 tournament.

O'Brien was eventually run out for 113 but his team mates made sure his effort had not been in vain.

On the other hand, India snatched a thrilling tie against England on Sunday but their tag as World Cup favourites is starting to face increasing scrutiny as the humdinger exposed serious chinks in their armoury when they are not batting.

India's batting line-up is arguably the best on paper and, more importantly, in top form as they notched up scores in excess of 300 in their first two games of the tournament.

But take away the bat, and it is a whole different story. While it may sound harsh, it was more a case where England threw the match away rather than India grabbing a point in the run-feast which ended with a dramatic tie off the last ball in Bangalore - leaving both teams stranded on 338 runs.

The featherbed of a batting pitch meant that bowlers on either side were always going to suffer.

But Tim Bresnan's career-best haul of five for 48 for England highlighted the lack of bite the Indian bowlers had in their own backyard.

If not for India's pace spearhead Zaheer Khan, who claimed three quick wickets in England's batting powerplay to wrest the initiative back, the visitors would have cruised to victory despite chasing a daunting 339 victory target.

Munaf Patel, who partnered Zaheer with the new ball, spinners Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla posed no threat to the English batsmen, who put up partnerships of 68, 43 and 170 for the first three wickets to almost take their side home.

For the second straight match, the experienced Indian bowling put up an insipid performance. They conceded 283 runs against Bangladesh, failing to bowl out a side filled with average batsmen just finding their way in world cricket.

It is not that India have a lot to choose from with the bench strength consisting of the wayward Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, the injury-prone Ashish Nehra and the inexperienced Ravichandran Ashwin.

While Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni chose to credit the opposition's batting and put some of the blame on the pitch, he admitted that a lack of choices limited his bowling attack.

"You have to manage the resources. It's not that the bowlers are not good. Maybe this was a game where the conditions didn't really suit them," Dhoni said.

FIELDING HOWLERS

"At times when you play international cricket , the opposition team also plays well and I think it was an example where the England team batted really well."

However, he was more direct when it came to the Indian fielding which put down at least two chances.

"India has many strengths but fielding is definitely not one of them," Dhoni said.

While most would call the DRS howler the turning point, when England's Ian Bell bizarrely survived an lbw appeal while on 17, the most decisive moment was perhaps when Harbhajan dropped Andrew Strauss when he was on 22. Strauss went on to score 158.

Even the excellent fielders like Virat Kohli put down a regulation slip catch, while Yuvraj Singh missed a couple of run-out opportunities and the reliable Sachin Tendulkar misfielded a couple to concede boundaries.

Usually the exceptional fielders make up for the weak links in the team but in India's case it seems like the only way to win is to bat themselves out of trouble.

Luckily for India, they have a couple of seemingly easy games against Ireland and Netherlands to get their act right before they face South Africa, who will ruthlessly exploit India's mistakes.

"Being human beings you always commit mistake and the longer you can delay the mistakes the better cricketer you can be," Dhoni said.

With the hopes of more than one billion plus fans resting on their shoulders, Dhoni's men know that they can not afford many more mistakes over the next five weeks if they are to triumph on home soil.


2 MAR, 2011, 07.08AM IST,ET BUREAU
Budget lifts markets, traders shun bear bets

MUMBAI: Benchmark indices posted their biggest single-day gain in 22 months on Tuesday as the government's lower-than-expected fiscal deficit estimate for 2011-12 prompted traders to reverse their bearish bets.

But investors are sceptical about the endurance of the recent stock market rebound because a renewed rally in crude oil prices would raise doubts on whether the government would meet its budget shortfall target.

"The rally today (Tuesday) was mostly because of a combination of short covering and creation of long positions after data showed foreign funds took long positions worth Rs 2,000 crore in futures and options on the Budget day," said Siddarth Bhamre, head (derivatives), Angel Broking . "Foreign investors are relieved that the projected fiscal deficit number is not as grave as expected," he said.

BSE .s 30-share Sensex rose 623.10 points, or 3.50%, to 18,446. All shares on the index ended with gains. NSE's 50-share Nifty gained 189 points, or 3.54%, to 5,522. In the broad market, gainers outnumbered losers 2128:759 on the BSE.
Financial markets will remain closed on Wednesday on account of Mahashivratri. Shares of automobile companies led gainers on Tuesday after the government did not raise excise duty, contrary to expectations that taxes would be increased. BSE's Auto Index rose 5.6%, the highest among all sectoral gauges on Tuesday.

"The market is broadly happy with the budget, but is sceptical about achieving specific targets including fiscal deficit set by the finance minister. There are also worries about rising crude prices and political unrest in West Asian countries," said Manish Agarwal, head (institutional sales), Aditya Birla Money.

The government pledged to contain the fiscal deficit in 2011-12 at 4.6% of gross domestic product (GDP) compared with 5.1% in 2010-11. Further spikes in crude oil prices could result in the fiscal deficit exceeding the target because the government would be forced to borrow more from the markets to fund the fuel subsidies. India imports over 70% of its oil requirements.

Investors also took heart from a reading that showed the country's manufacturing activity grew at a faster pace in February. A Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by HSBC, rose to 57.9 in February from 56.8 in January.

Foreign funds net bought shares worth Rs419 crore on Tuesday, according to NSE's provisional data. So far in 2011 these investors have pulled out Rs 10,186 crore, or $2.26 billion, from Indian equities after pouring in almost $30 billion in 2010.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/market-news/budget-lifts-markets-traders-shun-bear-bets/articleshow/7607333.cms

Par panel to soon give recommendation on Insurance Bill: Finmin

Economic Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
NEW DELHI: The Finance Ministry today said the Parliamentary panel is expected to give recommendations soon on the insurance amendment Bill , which seeks to enhance FDI limit in the sector to 49 per cent from 26 per cent. "On the insurance amendment ...

Stuck Bills: Reach out to parties, Pranab tells CEOs

Indian Express - ‎13 hours ago‎
Frustrated by the political opposition to crucial reforms, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today told a group of CEOs that the UPA did not have the numbers in Parliament to ensure passage of Bills and so they must reach out to political parties to ...

FM seeks help from India Inc to push reforms

Times of India - ‎16 hours ago‎
NEW DELHI: Rising international crude prices and Opposition roadblock on UPA government's ambitious legislative reforms weighed heavily on finance minister Pranab Mukherjee as he sought the help of industry captains on Tuesday to generate support to ...

Mukherjee said it was important to send out right signals to foreign investors at this critical juncture that"we are serious about reforms".
more by Pranab Mukherjee - 16 hours ago - Times of India(1 occurrences)

Finance Minister seeks help from corporate sector to push reforms

onlineindiannews - ‎12 hours ago‎
FM Mr Pranab Mukherjee has urged the corporate sector to help in bringing about consensus in Parliament to push through long pending pro-reform legislation in financial sector. He said this is important as the UPA does not have adequate numbers in the ...

Realty cheers as budget extends benefits

Sify - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
The budget proposals for 2011/12 held out hope for real-estate firms focused on affordable housing, boosting sector stocks, but analysts were unsure if these would translate into gains for the broader sector. In his Budget speech, the finance minister ...

Low-cost housing loans of Rs 15 lakh to get 1% interest sop

Indian Express - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
In a move that could encourage buyers of low cost houses, the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the one per cent interest subsidy will be available on home loans of up to Rs 15 lakh against the current level of Rs 10 lakh. ...

Push for low-cost housing, none for high-price realty

Times of India - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Giving priority to low-cost housing, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday announced that 1% subsidy would be available on home loans up to Rs 15 lakh. Further, the value of houses eligible for availing the interest subsidy has been ...

Low-cost housing: interest subsidy limit hiked

The Hindu - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
The value of houses eligible for availing the interest subsidy increased to Rs. 25 lakh per unit In a move aimed at encouraging low-cost housing, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday proposed that one per cent interest subsidy will be available ...

Affordability in real estate addressed

Livemint - Devesh Chandra Srivastava - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Improving affordability for homebuyers in the middle- and low-income groups, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday raised the housing loan limit under the existing interest subvention scheme to Rs15 lakh from the existing Rs10 lakh. ...

Govt tries for an 'aam aadmi' orientation

Business Standard - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
To promote low-cost housing, this Budget proposes to extend the existing one per cent interest subsidy for a loan up to Rs 10 lakh for a house costing not more than Rs 20 lakh to apply for a housing loan up to Rs 15 lakh for a house costing up to Rs 25 ...

Booster for home loan segment

Hindu Business Line - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
The impact of the Budget policies would be seen more in smaller towns or in the low-cost housing segment. Banks will be encouraged to grow their home loan portfolio following liberalisation of the interest rate subvention scheme for housing loans in ...

Affordable home loans get cheaper

Hindustan Times - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Loans for affordable homes are set to get cheaper with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday extending the limit of priority home loans in his budget speech. The move is expected to spur demand for low-and mid-cost housing in the country. ...

Budget raises hope for common man

Business Standard - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has not paid much heed to most of the demands of the real estate sector. Instead, he has taken steps to make it easier for the aam aadmi to own a house. While not much has been offered to the mid-market segment, ...

FM pushes for affordable homes; full tax rebate to builders

NDTV.com - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
PTI, February 28, 2011 (New Delhi) Giving a thrust to affordable homes, the government on Monday proposed full tax rebate on developing such projects under a notified scheme and raised the ceiling of one per cent interest subsidy on home loans upto Rs ...

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Budget's disservice to healthcare

Hindu Business Line - Jyothi Datta - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
For all the din over making healthcare affordable in the country, the Union Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has done precious little. You may not have to look too far, to run into someone with hypertension, diabetes, thyroid problems or ...

India's new health tax misses the point

Financial Times (blog) - Amy Kazmin - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
India may have completed two decades of market-oriented economic liberalisation. But its' deep-rooted socialist mindset – especially attitudes about the poor, and how they live, or should live – are hard to shake. That is apparent in a particularly ...

Premium healthcare to be costlier with new service tax

Daily News & Analysis - Priya Adhyaru Majithia - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee proposed amendments in service tax and extended it more areas. Earlier, 117 segments were under service tax, now the unchanged rate of 10% tax on services will ...

Hospital chains upset over service tax proposal

Moneycontrol.com - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
The government's proposal to bring hospitals under service tax ambit will increase cost burden of patients and will be negative for the sector, said India's healthcare operators. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, while presenting the budget for ...

Union Budget 2011: Healthcare budget a put off, says private hospitals

Economic Times - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: Terming as "unfortunate" the hike in service tax for air conditioned private hospitals, two such premier institutions said they were not impressed by the budget for 2011-12 presented Monday by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee . ...

Apollo's Reddy Says Health-Care Cost to Rise After India Budget

Bloomberg - Kartikay Mehrotra - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Sangita Reddy, executive director at Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd., comments on Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's budget proposals for the fiscal year starting April 1. ...

Hospitals turn costlier, worry on prevention

Calcutta Telegraph - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
New Delhi, Feb. 28: Medical diagnosis and health care is likely to become more expensive for the average Indian despite a Union government pledge to increase the 2011-12 health budget by 21 per cent over last year's spending....

Flight to food, middle class not in pink of health

Daily Pioneer - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Health check-ups in air-conditioned hospitals and liquor at high-end restaurants and bars are set to become expensive for the common man, already reeling under inflation. From the general insurance perspective too, there is very little to cheer about ...

Now, shell out more for medical care

mydigitalfc.com - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
By Sangeetha G Feb 28 2011 , Chennai While treatment costs in the country have been rising amidst widening demand-supply gap in quality healthcare provisions, the budget has increased the burden on patients by bringing hospitals with 25 beds or more ...

Pharma & healthcare left out

Business Today - Kumar Sharma - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Talk about the budget with players in the pharma and healthcare sectors and you hear little about what it does to their sectors and more about the initiatives the finance minister has taken or considered on fiscal consolidation, inclusive development ...

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May stop vacation of spectrum, Antony warns FinMin

Business Standard - Surajeet Das GuptaMansi Taneja - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
The defence ministry has said it will not release more telecom spectrum for civilian use as finance and telecom ministries have not kept their end of the bargain. Defence Minister AK Antony has made this clear to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. ...

Budget 2011: Antony happy with budget allocation for Defence

Economic Times - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: Defence Minister AK Antony on Tuesday said he was happy with the budgetary allocation for armed forces as the Government has assured to provide his ministry additional funds to meet acquisition requirements. "By and large we are very happy ...

Indian Defence Ministry happy with more funds assurance from Pranab

Sify - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
Giving a thumbs up to the substantial raise in defence Budget by 11.6 percent, Defence Minister AK Antony today expressed his happiness over the assurance given by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee that there would be no dearth of money for important ...

Asked whether the Army has been provided with the Rules of Engagement (RoE) for operating in Naxal-hit areas of Chhattisgarh, Antony said, "Consultations are going on as our role is not direct engagement. We are not going to directly engage ourselves directly there and will provide only transport and logistics support."
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Our concerns have by-and-large been addressed by Finance Minister: AK Antony

The Hindu - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
India on Monday effected a nearly 12 per cent hike in its defence spending, clearly making increased allocation for major acquisitions in the pipeline as the Defence Ministry marches ahead on its plan to modernise the armed forces. ...

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Mutual funds to attract new channel of investment

The Hindu - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
The Finance Minister's proposal in his Budget speech on Monday, to allow foreign investors to invest in mutual funds directly has evoked mixed response from fund houses. At present foreign institutional investors (FIIs), non-resident Indians and ...

No Foreign Stampede Seen for India Mutual Funds

Wall Street Journal - Shefali Anand - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
NEW DELHI—A new rule that would allow Americans and other foreign individuals to buy Indian mutual funds may not find takers any time soon. India pledged to reduce its fiscal deficit in its annual budget this week - a move that has ...

India targets more foreign investors in new budget

Arab News - Gopal Sutar - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who presented Union Budget 2011 on Monday, has tried his best to woo Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) in the coming years. He raised the FII limit in five-year ...

India budget will spur investment: US chamber

Economic Times - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
WASHINGTON: A leading US trade association has praised India's budget, saying it sets forth clear parameters that will spur and sustain greater investment in the country's infrastructure sector. "The sheer confidence this budget represents is worthy of ...

India Budget 2011: What is there for PE and VCs?

Moneycontrol.com - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
Budget 2011 provides a sweetener for Private Equity Houses in India especially in the infrastructure sector and enhancing limits for foreign investments in the country. While sectors like the power sector have been given special attention, ...

Budget 2011: Indian mutual funds may catch on faster in Gulf countries

Daily News & Analysis - Nimesh Shah - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
The budget has a pro-growth approach with an eye on rural empowerment & social inclusion. From a mutual fund stand point, the fact that foreigners can invest in Indian mutual funds is a positive. However, fund houses will have to look at ...

India Opens Mutual Funds to Outsiders

Barron's (blog) - Teresa Rivas - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
India plans to allow foreigners to invest in equity-oriented domestic mutual funds, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Although foreigners are allowed to currently invest in India-based mutual funds, they cannot do so directly. ...

Foreign individuals allowed to invest in mutual funds

Livemint - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Budget 2011 wants foreign individual investors to invest in Indian equity-oriented mutual fund (MF) directly, just like us. Presently, foreign institutional investors can directly invest in Indian equity schemes. However, foreign individuals cannot ...

FM allows foreign access, gives MFs reason to smile

Business Standard - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
The Indian mutual fund industry, reeling under strict regulatory norms related to commissions and disclosures, has finally got a reason to smile. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, while presenting the Union Budget 2011-12, has allowed fund houses to ...

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2 MAR, 2011, 07.06AM IST, SUDHIR KAPADIA,

Budget 2011: Taxing times ahead

On the face of it, Budget 2011 appears broadly tax neutral inasmuch as what the finance minister has given away in direct tax proposals (roughly Rs 11,000 crore), he hopes to recover through indirect tax proposals . Reading further, however, it is clear that the FM is banking upon a continued trend of tax buoyancy by projecting an overall 18.5% growth in tax revenues in 2011-12 over the revised estimate of 2010-11. This means that without any incremental tax revenue measures, the FM hopes to increase tax revenues on the back of a widening tax base or simply incremental growth of income in the hands of existing taxpayers.

Here is an analysis of some of the measures that may justify this belief and also the challenges which will be faced by both the tax administration and taxpayers alike on the journey to meeting the Budget estimates of 2011-12. The minimum alternate tax dividend distribution tax (DDT) in case of special economic zones (SEZs) is a retrograde step from a point of view of "promissory estoppels". This is because businesses would have made their business plan and return over investment calculations without taking into account these levies. It appears that the government hopes to incrementally collect some revenues in this sector though not specifically mentioned in the Budget documents.

Linked with the non-renewal of the tax exemption to companies in software technology parks, especially the medium sector technology companies, may see their effective tax rates rising in 2011-12, thus boosting some tax revenues. However,the introduction of a tool box of counter measures for transactions with "tainted jurisdictions" is an important provision in the light of the prevailing controversies around the alleged flight of unaccounted funds from India. These provisions have been introduced in some EU countries as well after the G20 drive to penalise noncooperative tax jurisdictions.

This provision seeks to make doing business with such jurisdictions tax inefficient inasmuch as deduction of expenditure will be denied and payments made to such jurisdictions will suffer a higher rate of 30% withholding tax. The government, thus, hopes to make most countries fall in line to sign the tax information exchange agreement failing which they run the risk of being notified under this provision . These provisions would arm the tax administration with the much-needed ammunition to go after such unaccounted income and hopefully increase the tax base and contribute to the tax buoyancy which the FM is hoping to achieve. The taxation of dividends from foreign companies at concessional rate is a welcome provision.

The dividend on income received from foreign subsidiaries will be taxed at a base rate of 15% rather than the higher normal base rate of 30%. This move seems to be patterned in the US Jobs Act that was introduced in 2005 to encourage US parents to repatriate earnings from foreign subsidiaries and reinvest them in the US. Considering the fact that controlled foreign companies (CFC) rules will come into force beginning April 1, 2012, this may be an attractive oneyear opportunity for Indian multinationals to get accumulated profits repatriated from their foreign subsidiaries at concessional rates. It will, of course, also help to shore up the government's tax kitty on such repatriated profits.

An important incentive in the infrastructure sector has been introduced by way of a proposal to set up dedicated infrastructure debt funds that shall be exempt from tax. The interest received by foreign investors from such funds shall be taxable at a concessional rate of 5%. Given the financial capital required in the broad infrastructure sector, this should provide an impetus for foreign investors , especially institutional investors who are exempt from tax in their home countries (like pension fund, endowment fund, etc.). This is because the withholding tax in the country of investment is a sunk cost for these tax-exempt entities not being creditable in their home country. This, therefore, should result in attracting a fresh set of investors in the infrastructure sector, resulting in higher fund flows into the country. Finally, if the growth story holds good and tax buoyancy as projected comes true, corporate India will heave a sigh of relief.

However, if there are dark clouds visible during the course of the next fiscal year and tax administration gets pressurised to meet the ambitious revenue targets on the back of tax neutral provisions , the possibility of aggressive tax audits and unreasonable expectation of tax revenues from the existing taxpayers are bound to materialise . This will be an unfortunate situation as, given the global competitiveness increasingly faced by Indian businesses, the least they would expect is not to be hassled by unreasonable tax demands stemming from the pressure on tax administration to meet Budget estimates. So, will there be taxing times ahead? Only time, and India's growth story, will tell.

SUDHIR KAPADIA
(The author is tax markets leader at Ernst & Young. Views are personal)

Editorial


"Dalit capitalist" lollipop will further enslave our people Beware of yet another Brahminic trap

After fooling and finishing the entire SC/ST educated lot via the fake job reservations — with the connivance of their fake "Mahatma " Gandhi — the Hindu rulers of India are now launching a new but extremely cunning game — called "Dalit capitalist" — to further enslave our people.

The Times of India (Jan.30, 2011), the current market leader among the monstrous Manuwadi media, published a front-page article, "Defying Manu: rise of the Dalit capitalist", by one D. Sham Babu saying that a 30-strong "Dalit capitalist" team being invited to the Planning Commission office in Delhi "recently" and given a pep talk about the "glorious future" for Dalits if they take the capitalist path — strictly reserved for the Brahmin-Bania twice-born categories.

Babasaheb forced to surrender: Dr. Ambedkar fought for a "separate electorate" against which the "Father of the nation" of the 15% upper castes went on a fake hunger strike and forced Babasaheb to surrender. This was in the year 1932. (Read our booklet Separate Electorate & Separate Settlement, DSA-1991, pp.40 Rs. 25 for photocopy).

Had the SC/ST got the "separate electorate" not only 30% of the original inhabitants of India would have remained as the solid non-Hindu, if not anti-Hindu, block and led the other victims of Brahmins, but more than that Dr. Ambedkar would have become the first PM of India.

But the Brahminists under the leadership of the "Southern Fox", C. Rajagopalachari, impressed the Gujarati Bania about the dangers of "separate electorate" and forced him to go on his famous fake hunger strike. Gandhi had gone on many such "fasts unto death" but had never died of fasting. He was ultimately killed by a Brahmin bullet (read our book, Why Godse Killed Gandhi? V.T. Rajshekar, photocopy available Rs. 75).

Muslims support Dr. Ambedkar: Instead of the "separate electorate" demand — which the British Govt. endorsed and the then Muslim leadership assured full support—the Congress, the original Brahminical party of India, stabbed the Dalits in the back, and deceived Babasaheb by offering a mischievous compromise proposal called the toothless reservations in education and employment.

Babasaheb was forced to accept this mischievous Brahmin plan which helped the rulers to keep our people permanently as servants and slaves and frustrate Babasaheb becoming the first Prime Minister of independent India. The upper caste rulers did not keep up their promise but scuttled the reservation both in education and employment. However, they fully implemented the "reserved constituencies" for SC/ST to see that our people are kept as permanent slaves of the Congress Party. All this is part of history. Brahminical new rulers who took over from the British in 1947 never implemented even the fake Poona Pact (1932).

What is the pitiable position of the SC/STs in education and employment is repeated by the govt. itself in its several reports placed before the parliament. The constitution came into being in 1950 and the 60-year-old experience is known to the entire DV family word-wide.

SC/STs made slaves of Hindus: Alas, today our people, forming over 30% of the country's population, have become not only loyal but free slaves of the ruling Brahminical people.

The "reservations", however, gave the Brahminist rulers two powerful tools to enslave our people. Since they are the bosses of the country they took over the job of recruiting our people into education and employment.

(1) This powerful tool helped the enemy to not only break our backbone but hinduise (meaning enslave) the entire "educated" SC/STs.

(2) Job reservation for SC/STs can be availed only if you are educated. If you are not educated how can you enter the reserved sector? As the owners of the land, the Brahminists simply denied education to our people. This kept out a major portion of our people, who are poor village-dwelling, poor and hence uneducated. Once you have no education, you cannot enter this reserved sector.

Stooges & mercenaries: Such a powerful Brahminical double-edged weapon has completely enslaved our people and the few who went up at the mercy of the Brahmins, remained as stooges or mercenaries — totally isolated from their own society.

Yes. A very small section did enter the reserved sector at the lowest level. Since the IAS, IPS and other central services are recruited through the Union Public Service Commission, SC/ST recruitment to these services continued. But as the bosses the upper castes had the power to deny Dalit IAS/IPS and other central service officers executive posts but dump them in unimportant posts and subject them to constant pinpricks, making their life permanently miserable.

No difference between Cong., BJP, CPM: If the reserved sector SC/STs are leading a miserable life on one side, the Brahminists used their yet another, but more deadly weapon called hinduisation, to totally enslave our people. Hindu terrorist parties like the RSS-BJP etc. poured thousands of crores of rupees to hinduise our people, meaning enslaving them. This is going on in Orissa, Gujarat, MP, Jharkhand etc.

In keeping our people permanently as slaves there is no difference between the Congress, BJP or CPM-CPI. All are Hindu parties and anti-Dalit.

Such a hinduistion of Dalit officials helped the rulers in many ways.

These SC/ST officers should have served as the leaders of the Dalit revolution carrying the burning torch of Babasaheb forward. But the constant threat of the hanging Brahminic sword on their heads, coupled with the more deadly hinduisation, killed our entire SC/ST/ officials.

Some of them do realise the mistake and try to do something after retirement. By then it is too late.

Agents of the enemy: Not only these Dalit Babus refused to lead the uneducated, poor Dalits outside the reserved sector but in many cases they served as the agents of the enemy to destroy the little remaining Dalit movement.

Some Dalit officers write some pathetic heart-rending stories of "Dalit exploitation" only when they are in trouble. They remember their community only when they are kicked.

"Closing down DV": All these points were well argued during the recent debate on "Closing down DV". In the entire DV family in India, we have hardly 5% or even less senior Dalit officers. They are not interested in DV.

Last year we were invited by Dalit Income Tax officers — with big income — of Bombay for the Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti giving all false assurances — that they would enroll 100 DV life-members and a handsome donation. Not a single promise was kept up. Why should we take interest in these "reservationwalas" who are our internal enemies? For your information, internal enemies are more dangerous than the external Brahminic enemies.

In other words, the Brahminists used the SC/ST reservation to kill the Dalit movement itself. Now it is dead and buried 100 feet deep.

A Dalit educated person is once for all lost to the Dalit community the moment he becomes reserved sector officer. Look at the power of the Brahmin.

Private sector reservation: The reserved sector having failed, the very same Brahminists who sabotaged it launched a new but more dangerous game, brainwashed some Dalits to demand "reservation in private sector".

Wonderful things are happening in Hindu India. Those "Wretched of the earth" who are denied reservation, assured in the very Constitution, will they get admission into the reserved Brahmin-Bania private sector? What a foolish dream.

"Khatri Sick" PM's promise: Yet our reservationwalas are made to spend lot of time, money and energy talking on reservation in private sector.

The Brahminic rulers manufactured one or two well-paid Dalit stooges in Delhi to go on fooling those Dalits who are willing to be fooled.

We were invited to one such "national seminar" on reservation in private sector. Our "Khatri Sick" Prime Minister gave a false assurance to Dalits on reservation in private sector. They spent over 5 years talking but nothing happened. The Brahmin-Bania capitalist bosses simply rejected the proposal and said nothing doing. So it is good-bye to the much talked about private sector quota.

Brahmin-Bania closed circle: Now our innocent people are being led into yet another but a more dangerous trap: "Dalit capitalists". The Times of India is being used to brainwash our people to become capitalists. Very tempting offer.

We have hardly any OBC capitalists. Not many shudra capitalists. The Tata, Ambani, Sahu-Jain, Bajaj, Bangur, Bira, Dalmia, Mallya, Goenka capitalist class is strictly reserved for the Brahmin-Bania castes. Even the second-ranking Kshatriyas (Thakurs) are hardly found in this corrupt-crooked world of capitalists.

Human rights decimated: Brahminist rulers have decimated the country itself by denying the human rights of Dalits, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, OBCs. Now they are trying to take another step forward by dangling a lollipop of Dalit capitalists. And we can assure you that there are any number of people among us rushing to become fools and fall victim to this yet another false assurance.

Several names of "Dalit capitalists" were published in the Times article including a famous Dalit sister, Kalpana Saroj, of Bombay. The TOI article says that the emerging small capitalists:

"have proved that India now offers enough opportunities, irrespective of caste and creed, to make it in life with hard work".

Dr. Ambedkar stabbed in the back: See, how sweet and tempting is the offer.

This treacherous class of rulers, has stabbed Babasaheb in the back, ditched and deceived every section of the Indian oppressed classes (85%) to see that the mere 15% upper castes ride roughshod over the country.

Indian history has proved that the Brahminists never speak the truth. They go on giving false promises and we go on believing their falsehood and get stabbed in the back.

The capialist class comprises mainly the Brahmin-Bania family ventures. None is allowed into this closed coterie of the first class cheats who have kept their stolen money in Swiss banks.

India made a beggar country: The Brahminists have already decimated India and made it a beggar country. Every section of the society is enslaved. Women of even upper castes are dumb-driven. With over 85% of the country enslaved and corruption eating the very vitals of the society, we don't know how this country can withstand any emergency that can suddenly confront us.

India will have no revolution: The revolution, like the one that swept Egypt, will not occur in Hindu India. In the absence of any such changes, the only way open is foreign invasion which India had in plenty.

If these are the facts of history, we will not be surprised if the Brahminic rulers once again succeed in fooling those Dalits who are willing to be fooled by dangling the "Dalit Capitalist" lollipop.

Anyway, all these are the different brand names of the historic game called hinduisation (enslavement) of the non-Hindu 85% of the country.

Sikhs hinduised & enslaved: Sikhs have been hinduised. To a great extent Christians have also succumbed.

The only section which the enemy so far could not touch is the Muslims. But the elite Muslims— may be a tiny 5% but influential section— have been hinduised. The entire educated Dalits have fallen flat.

The "Dalit capitalist" — a very mesmerising name — will attract good lot of the corrupt among our people. Already the Brahminical money-driven society is in full swing. Quite a lot of Dalits have fallen into this trap. This "Dalit capitalist" lollipop will attract many more and finally get drowned.

Hinduisation means enslaving: Untouchables, Tribals and even the OBCs are not Hindu and never Hindu. Our Father has made this clear.

But by stabbing our Father in the back on the separate electorate demand and using the cunning Gujarat Bania, our Brahminical enemies hinduised us and thereby enslaved us. They used the reservation to co-opt and corrupt us.

Hinduisation of our people did not bring us parity with the Hindus. It made our people good, loyal, permanent slaves of the Hindu rulers.

For purposes of bloating the Hindu population to the extent of 85%, they are adding our 65% strength and claiming that India is a "Hindu nation". Hinduisation means enslaving our non-Hindus, if not anti-Hindu, original inhabitants.

DV predicament: Now they are taking yet another step of "Dalit capitalist" to further tighten the lid so that we are further suffocated and made breathless.

A couple of Dalit NGOs in Delhi and some JNU Dalit products are being used to sell the "Dalit capitalist" lollipop. The Planning Commission itself is being used to fool the Dalit petty merchants, traders and businessmen so that a gap is created between these Dalit businessmen and the poor, unlettered Dalits — thereby creating yet another enemy within the Dalit community.

Dalit Voice has given this yet another warning. We have given hundreds of such warnings. But our "educated" Dalits are not bothered. Our illiterate brothers cannot read DV and we have no access to reach them. See our predicament.

So the only thing that we can do is to silently weep over the crimes of our educated class and the helplessness of the innocent illiterate class.


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Hindustan Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
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Economic Times - ‎9 hours ago‎
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Upcoming financial legislative initiatives

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Times of India - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
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Economic Times - ‎Feb 26, 2011‎
The domestic markets fell sharply last week on the back of renewed fears in the West Asian region, and the sharp rise in crude oil price in the international markets. The sentiments of domestic and global investors are negative from a short-term ...

Petroleum Ministry to approach ministerial panel for fuel price

Hindu Business Line - ‎Feb 26, 2011‎
Concerned with the volatility in the global crude oil prices, the Petroleum Minister, Mr S Jaipal Reddy, said he will take the issue of fuel retail prices to an Empowered Group of Ministers soon. Speaking to reporters here, the Minister said, ...

Pranab may tinker with levies to avoid fuel price hike

Hindu Business Line - Richa Mishra - ‎Feb 26, 2011‎
Expectations are running high that the Finance Minster, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, will cushion consumers from the impact of the soaring international crude oil prices by reducing duties on petroleum products and crude oil. The duty rejig will also help in ...

Confusion in Petroleum Ministry on free-pricing regime for fuel

The Hindu - ‎Feb 26, 2011‎
The announcement by Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Jaipal Reddy that the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) would take a call on the petrol and diesel price hike has laid bare the confusion within the Ministry over how to deal with the ...

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Why DV did not support Binayak Sen ?

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Binayak Sen did not get the bail even from the Chattisgarh High Court saying the charges against him are too serious. Brahminical rulers (15%) have raised almost an international furore, even moblised the Nobel laureates. The entire "national" toilet papers have been screaming on behalf of Sen — intimidating the govt. and the courts to release him.

We have been bombarded by many Brahminical people and some of their bumlickers to issue statements and write in DV supporting Binayak Sen, an upper caste Bengali Baidya.

Marxist movement is Brahminic: The charge against him is that he was actively working for theManuwadi Maoists whom India's "Khatri Sick" PM had declared as one of the twin internal threats facing the country.

We have made our stand clear that the Maoist movement is nothing but a Brahminic counter-revolution. Its foot soldiers may be our own starving, village-dwelling SC/ST/BCs with the leadership firmly in the hands of Brahminists like Binayak Sen.

They lord and our people fall to police bullets and die. This is Maoism.

This movement has the active supports of ruling Brahminists (15%) who control the govt., the media and the urban upper caste parasites. This maoist movement has nothing to do with China's Maoist Party which refused to support it. Nor it is supported by the Nepali Brahmin Prachanda's Maoist Party.

DV's silence: That is why DV has been silent on Binayak Sen because we have repeatedly made it clear that India's marxist-maoist party leadership is our enemy. The cadres may be our people but their job is only to do and die facing police bullets. But the Binayak Sens get publicity, awards and rewards.

Gaddar's pitiable plight: The best example for this is our own poor Andhra Pradesh Dalit, Gaddar, who is used by the Brahmin leadership of the Maoists to sing and dance without allowing him to take over the leadership.

The Brahminists are today controlling two terrorist organisations: (1) the maoist movement controls almost the entire Eastern parts of India. The ruling Brahminical govt. has done hardly anything to fight them because its leadership is Brahminical.

Binayak Sen's arrest made the entire upper castes furious because he was very useful to the rulers to fool and finish the SC/ST/OBC in the name of maoism.

(2) The other terrorist is the much weaker Abhinav Bharat which is mainly against Muslims and aided by the Zionist Jews.

The leadership of both is Brahminic. They want to destroy India's existing parliamentary democracy and impose the Manuwadi dictatorship. This is the aim of both the "movements".

Both are Brahminists and our enemy oppressors. How can DV support our enemies?

In Bengal and Kerala, where the upper caste Marxists are in power, they are oppressing our people. We have written a book itself, How Marx Failed in India? (DSA - 1984) followed by three other books explaining why India's SC/ST/OBCs (85%) and Muslims have no confidence in manuwadi marxists.

The UPA govt. under the "Khatri Sick" PM is soft on both the Maoists and Hindu terrorists. The govt. does not bother about the reckless killing of our people. Its silence proves the govt. has no courage to tackle the two Brahminical terrorist outfits.


"Khatri Sick" PM stands exposed : DV proves right

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Hailed as the "god's good man", the darling of the ruling class, praised and paraded as the simplest and most honest PM is finally in the dock.

DV was the first in India to expose the "Khatri Sick" PM. At his Feb.16, 2011 press conference he simply tried to white-wash all the dirty things going under his seat.

Look at the corruption scandals, which he promotes, listed below by the Hindu, India's premier Brahminical daily, in its editorial itself.

Age of scams

Every well-informed schoolchild knows this is rising India's Age of Uninterrupted Scams. No government before the present United Progressive Alliance regime has had to deal with such a dizzying succession of exposes of corruption scandals — 2G spectrum, the Commonwealth Games, Adarsh Housing, money laundering, and the rest that have come tumbling out. The latest in the series is the Indian Space Research Organisation's deal — hatched in secret and sought to be covered up over a period of six years — to launch two customer-specific satellites and give away 70 MHz of high-value S-band for unfettered commercial exploitation at a scandalously low price of just over Rs. 1,000 crore to a private company, Devas Multimedia Private Limited. The transaction and its implications were first exposed by Business Line, the business daily of The Hindu group, in a detailed report published on May 31, 2010. (Hindu, Feb.10, 2011).

On one side he is encouraging the overfed upper castes to eat more, and on the other he is hitting the stomach of the already starving Bahujans.

The "Khatri Sick" has said no to increase the payment to NREG workers who are getting a pittance. He even over-ruled the Sonia Gandhi-headed NAC to raise the NREG wages.

DV has reported many cases of "Khatri Sick"s pro-capitalist and anti-poor sympathies.


Past sins keep Modi out of Delhi

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Nature has its own ways of dealing with men and matters. The body ejects any unwanted rubbish — through vomitting, purging, sweating. The ocean never keeps anything thrown into it — the waves simply throw it back. These are the laws of Nature which are universal.

Gujarat's Killer Modi has become a victim of Nature. The OBC (oil-crushing Ghanchi) Chief Minister who killed over 2,000 Muslims in the famous Gujarat Genocide-2002, to become the Hindu hero is unwanted by his own Hindu (Brahmana Jati) Party.

Future PM has no future: The poor fellow was not wanted in Bihar also. Its OBC Kurmi jati leader, Nitish Kumar, didn't want him during the elections fearing Muslim anger. The Nitish rejection was a slap on the face of Narendra Modi (60), praised by the Brahminists as the Hindu Hridaya Samrat.

What happened to the Great Samrat who was till recently projected as the future PM of India?

Poor man became a victim of the forces of Nature. The BJP, which once carried him on the head and paraded, today says he is unwanted. His chances are stunted, hindered because his past sins (of killing thousands of Muslims in cold blood) are haunting the party.

World's tallest statue: No doubt, inside Gujarat, he is "popular", whatever it may mean. The Bania businessmen may be praising him but the powerful Patels are not happy. To please the Patels he is erecting a 600-ft. Sardar Patel statue, the world's tallest, at Ahmedabad. He is also planning a massive Gandhi conference hall, named after the famous Gujarati Bania.

Why the BJP leadership, despite all his "achievements", keeps him out? Because he has proved to be a divisive figure. Muslims, forming 15% of the country's population, hate him. There are any number of "Hindus" who also hate such hate-mongers.

The body has rejected the unwanted shit.


NOT SINGLE PREDICTION OF DV HAS GONE WRONG

Get Ready To Bury Brahminism

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Not a single prediction (no — not even an opinion) made by DV has so far gone wrong. Nor one theory we propounded proved a failure. Except in only one case of Obama for which for the first time we tendered apology in writing. (DV July 1, 2010 p.21: "DV committed mistake on Obama").

In the report along side we have talked about the "Forces of history" which shape the world. But India's ruling micro-minority Brahminists don't care for the "forces of history" because they know the Hindu poison has put the 1,300 million (world's second largest population) to eternal sleep.

Basket of crabs: The caste system they created is like a basket of crabs.

The Hindu caste system has created in us a "crab mentality" which never allows any crab to escape out of the basket. One caste (or better subcaste) is the enemy of the other.

Brahminists need no army or police to keep them inside the basket.

Dr. Ambedkar opinion: The fishermen never keep the crab basket closed. One crab pulls the other crab trying to escape.

Just like the crab, one "Hindu" caste is the enemy of the other Hindu caste.

Ascending order of reverence and descending degree of contempt. This is Hinduism, said Babasaheb Ambedkar.

In AP, the Congress used the crab theory to control the Reddy crab by using the Kapu crab. The Brahminic rulers have been using the "crab theory" to control India since thousands of years. It did work.

Abhinav Bharat as internal enemy: But the "Forces of history" being the law of nature are above the crab theory.

Brahminists do not know it. The Abhinav Bharat, the emerging Hindu terrorist force, is the most dangerous and deadly force that will be our internal enemy.

If the DV family carefully follows our writings it can serve as a catalyst to accelerate the "forces of history" which are fast gathering momentum.

Once (1) Israel collapses and (2) the US sinks under the "forces of history", (3) the nuclear-armed Iran takes over the leadership in West Asia, (4) China, already a world force, takes over the world leadership, (5) revolutionary Muslims of Pakistan finish the corrupt Zardari regime and take over the nuclear-powered Pakistan, what will the Brahminic cockroaches do? Who will come to their aid?

Keep a watch on our prediction and act as the catalysts of change to speed up the "forces of history".

And get ready to bury Brahminism and build the New India of Babasaheb's dream.


Congres more anti-Muslim compared to BJP

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Thousands of Muslim youth, wrongly arrested and kept in different jails on charges of "Islamic terrorism", have been now proved to be innocent following the confessions of the Bengali Brahmin, Aseemananda. They were arrested in bombing cases in Malegaon, Ajmere, Mecca Masjid and Samjhauta Express.

Aseemananda has now said all these cases are the handiwork of the Hindu terrorists headed by Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit, a serving army officer.

But the Union Home Minister Chidambaram and his boss the "Khatri Sick" PM, are silent. They are neither releasing the innocent Muslims nor punishing the proved "Hindu terrorists".

In what way the ruling Congress is less anti-Muslim compared to the more honest Brahmana Jati Party?


Nobel Laureat facing arrest

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Muhammed Yunus (70), the darling of the Jews and the "Jews of India", winner of the Nobel Peace Prize which is reserved for all zionist darlings, is facing arrest in Bangladesh.

The "pioneer" of the microfinance, the Bangladeshi Muslim was carefully groomed in USA, where he studied, and made ready by the zionists to destroy the Muslim society in Bangladesh. He did that job very well.

DV was the first in the world to expose this closely guarded secret years back and we have proved right.

The New York Times, the world famous Jewish owned daily, itself announced in its issue of Jan.31 that Yunus is facing arrest.

Brahmin love: It was Yunus who popularised micro-credit and India's Brahminical rulers fell in love with the Muslim, so much hated in his native Bangladesh for sucking the blood of the poor in the name of MF.

The 34-year old MF institution of Yunus called Grameen Bank is facing govt. inquiry. Norway which gave him the Nobel Peace Prize itself charged him with fraud, according to the International Herald Tribune.

But the Indian versions of Mohammed Yunus like Akula are still roaming around because the Brahminical frauds are ruling India.

A book in English written by Akula is being sold like hot cakes in Indian airports.


HINDU TERRORISTS & MANUWADI MARXISTS PLAYING HAVOC

India's most healthy tribal society called primitive, uncultured

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Tribals, the original inhabitants of India who form about 10% of our population, are ridiculed as primitive, uncivilised, uncultured and lately hunted down and killed as Maoist monsters.

But shocking reports have emerged from the demographic data revealing that the Tribals are the country's most civilised, healthy and cultured people.

Look at the shocking contradictions in the Brahminical verdict on a set of people who have become the worst victims of the very same people who prepared the demographic data.

TRIBALS CONTROL HALF OF INDIA

The constitution of India and the laws framed under it have enacted countless laws to protect tribal rights. But they are all on paper. But the governing Brahminists dumped all the laws into the wastepaper basket — even while exploiting the triblas by calling it "Adivasi liberation" in which the just arrested Bengali Brahmin Aseemananda is an expert.

Tribals control half of India's mineral wealth and forest resources which are exploited by the upper caste rulers. In the name of "development" Brahminists are developing themselves, diverting the illegally earned money into Swiss banks with the full blessings of the "Khatri Sick" PM.

Almost the entire Eastern India is tribal and it is in this area the Brahminical Maoist leadership is playing havoc with their lives and little property. Elsewhere in Gujarat, MP, etc. the Hindu terrorists are playing with their lives.

10% OF POPULATION CONDEMNED

A formidable 10% of our population is crushed and condemned to inhuman life — all in the name of the blessed Hinduism. What type of "religion" is this?

Demographic reports, however, present a different picture of the tribals.

HINDUS SHOULD BE ASHAMED

The tribal society holds a role model for the whole country, according to the demographic reports prepared by the very same enemies of tribals. The report says the tribals have a balanced sex composition.

The women enjoy a higher status and more autonomy — unlike the male dictatorship among the Brahminist (15%) Hindus.

The girls are married only after they get matured. There is no killing of girl child — a rampant disease among Hindus. Widows are happily married. It is mostly love-marriage without dowry and hardly any expense in marriage ceremony. Divorce is easy.

Hindus should be ashamed of such a wonderful society which is a role model for the whole country particularly the money-minded Brahminists.

MONGOLOID TRIBALS

Specially, the North-East India's famed Mongoloid tribals are today the most sought after by the Brahminical rulers themselves. Today in big cities, they are managing hotels, airlines, beauty parlour so honestly and so efficiently. The entire NE tribals have kicked Hinduism and embraced Christianity disgusted with Hinduism.

We can say that the Tribals are perhaps the most advanced, beautiful and ideal society. But Brahminists have condemned them and the RSS Adivasi Kalyan Samiti has invested millions of dollars to "civilise" the Tribals.

CIVILISING THE TRIBALS

What they mean by "civilising" the country's most civilised tribals is disrupting their ideal society by injecting the Hindu poison.

Hinduising means destroying Dalits (20%) and Tribals (10%) — the two who form the foundation of India that is Bharat which Babasaheb Ambedkar wanted to build as a mighty power. Alas, nothing is left now.

Over 64 years of Brahminic rule has set fire to the beautiful socio-cultural fabric that is manufactured by the tribals who are denounced as uncouth and outside the civilisation. To hell with this Brahminic civilisation.


"Hindu terrorism" becomes India's No.1 problem

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: When the Indian Govt. is so merciless on "Islamic terrorists", arrested thousands of them, threw them into jail, keeping them indefinitely without any charge (take the case of Abdul Nasser Madani), why it is so kind and compassionate towards the deadliest Brahminical terrorists with proven charges of murder and mayhem?

Why these terrorists are not put on trial, convicted and punished even after the Bengali Brahmin Aseemananda's confessions of the crimes of all those named and arrested? Why the judiciary is silent ? The answer is it is also "Hindu".

Only Muslims arrested: Aseemnanda is not an ordinary criminal. He is a top leader of the Hindu terrorist party, RSS, and seriously engaged in hinduising (enslaving) the Gujarat tribals with the active assistance of its Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the killer of hundreds of Muslims in the "Gujarat Genocide". His confessions have revealed that almost all the recent major terrorist attacks including Samjhouta Express train were the handiwork of the Brahminic terrorists. But the police arrested only hundreds of Muslims for all these "terrorists actions" and Hindu media blamed them of "conspiracy". The people were made to believe an utter falsehood.

Has the Indian police, prosecutor, judiciary, media, the state itself gone "Hindu"? Why then it is soft on Hindu terrorists even after their secrets have been disclosed by S.M. Mushrif in his book, Who Killed Karkare?

We have been repeatedly writing that the greatest threat facing India is neither the Islamic terrorism nor the maoist menace. The one and the only threat facing India is "Brahminic terrorism". Even Rahul Gandhi, who named it, is helpless — forced to keep his mouth shut.


Adarsh demolition can alone prove DV wrong on "Khatri Sick" PM

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: We have written more than enough to drive home the point that our "Khatri Sick" PM is the darling of India's corrupt rich and that he is the enemy of the country's deprived SC/ST/BCs (65%) and Muslim/Christian/Sikhs (20%).

We will give him one last test to prove that we are wrong.

The 31-storey Adarsh building in Bombay today stands as the best proof of the Brahminic corrupt world. A Maratha Chief Minister (Ashok Chavan) himself was dismissed and heads of several top bureaucrats were cut. Well done.

BAHUJANS ARE INNOCENT

Adarsh has come to represent the best and the most prominent proof of the Brahminic corruption.

Remember, it is only the top 15% of the country's elite, meaning the upper castes, (Brahminists) who have the opportunity to steal the scarce resources of this poverty-stricken country. The Bahujan Samaj (85%) has hardly any role in corruption.

The Karnataka Brahmin Union Minister, Jairam Ramesh, has ordered the demolition of Adarsh. Wonderful. Originally cleared for 6 storeys, Adarsh soared to 31, violating all the rules.

It was meant for Kargil war (1999) widows but those who grabbed the flats represent the elite in politics, defence, bureaucracy, business etc. The appetite of India's upper castes has no limits.

UGLIEST FACE OF INDIA

The Adarsh symbolises the ugliest face of the country's ruling 15% Brahminists who have kept their stolen money in Swiss banks whose names the "Khatri Sick" PM is refusing to disclose — not to speak of confiscating the money.

So much of love for his jatwalas.

India is listed among the world's most corrupt — but our rulers are not at all ashamed because we have any number of "Khatri Sicks" to shield them.

RAHUL'S SILENCE

Rahul Gandhi is called the "future PM" but he has not uttered a word on Adarsh.

Is he following the footsteps of the "Khatri Sick" PM?

Instead of patting the back of Jairam Ramesh, the "Khatri Sick" PM is repeatedly pulling him up.

He says "development" is more important than social justice or environmental protection. Whose "development" the "Khatri Sick" is seeking?

Ramesh has ordered Adarsh demolition. Wonderful. But the corrupt crooks are howling that pulling it down will be a "national" tragedy. When did the anti-nationals fall in love with the "nation"? What right these anti-nationals have to talk about our nation? Patriotism can't be the monopoly of only the corrupt.

We fully support Ramesh. Pulling it down would give a high-voltage shock — though we also know that the Brahminists are immune to any shock. All the more demolishing Adarsh would demonstrate the will of the "Khatri Sick" PM to prove us otherwise. If not all that we said so far will stand proved.


Congress uses DV's "caste identity" thesis to fight Reddys

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: The Congress, India's original Brahminic party, is using the "caste card" to fight the "menace" of Jaganmohan Reddy who is threatening to wipe out both the Reddy-dominated Congress and the Khamma-controlled Telugu Desam — perhaps threatening the United AP itself.

The Congress has embraced Kapu leader Chiranjeevi, a popular film actor, whose caste is the third largest in AP and prominent in Telengana also. OBC Kapus may be "lower" than Reddy and Khamma but they are also upper castes.

Chiranjeevi joining will also counter the influence of another Velama leader K. Chandrasekhara Rao of the TRS party — though there are reports of Congress wooing him also.

Caste as a fact of life: The Congress using the "caste card" should answer a section of Malas who criticised our "caste identity" theory. Caste or rather the subcaste is a fact of life which has led to many bloody agitations all over India. It is also a subject which the Mandal Commission has dealt with so thoroughly.

Please read our Editor's book, Caste — A Nation Within the Nation, which won the international London Institute of South Asia Award in the year 2001.

Protection to Hyderabad: As for Telengana, Dalit Voice was the first in India to announce its full support. However, the city of Hyderabad, which has a big Muslim population and part of Telengana, needs to be fully protected by making it a union territory like Chandigarh.

India is not a nation and was never a nation. Neither religion nor language constitute a nation. India is a boiling cauldron of castes, communities, religions, and regions, languages, races etc. It was never a "nation".

A state which does not satisfy all these aspirations will die.

Kashmir warning: A state which tries to curb the nationality urges, as it happened recently in Kashmir, will face rebellion if not secession. Soviet Russia broke up on the nationality question.

That a language (Telugu) does not bind a people is proved in the Telengana turmoil.

Switzerland is a nation which has three languages, two religions, four races — and still a nation.

India is certainly not a "nation". Dr. Ambedkar, the greatest social scientist of India, has given this verdict.

Brahminist dictatorship is forcibly keeping the million mutinees under its thumb by keeping 75% of the people poor, illiterate and deeply divided through the caste system.

Slaves enjoying their slavery: They are under great pain but none to bother. They are all made to apply the balm of "fate" that simply makes them silently suffer.

Slaves enjoying their slavery. How many times we have repeated this sentence.

The rest are managed through the national toilet papers, TV, corruption and money-driven society.

Telengana uprising is led by the masses of people. Neither Jagan nor TRS or anybody has the power over the people who have taken over the charge.

Sabarimala experiment: The Congress, the original Brahminical party of India, is worried over the loss of its power over AP. It is not worried over the aspirations of the people.

How long the rulers of India can go on kicking the people and killing them in hundreds as it recently did in Kerala's Sabarimala?


WEST ASIA REVOLUTION

Big victory for DV: "Forces of history" killing dictators

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Zionist Jews forced the Christian West to launch two World Wars to dominate the world and subvert Christianity. Later they forced the West to confront Islam killing millions of Muslims, almost forcing a World War-III.

ISRAEL ENCIRCLED BY ENEMIES

The sudden revolution in the corrupt part of the Muslim world has suddenly changed the situation in the West. Israel, the cause of all the unrest and bloodshed, is itself threatened with the hostile anti-zionist regimes springing up all around it.

Zionists have to either flee to US or jump into the Mediterranean and commit suicide.

President Hosni Mubarak (82), the stooge of zionists, ruling Egypt for a record 30 years, is the first casualty of the Arab uprising. The dictator continues though very much weakened. The powerful Muslim Brotherhood is watching.

President Obama, a full-fledged stooge of the Jews controlling USA, added to the confusion in Egypt. He is under pressure from bosses to protect Mubarak whom Israel needs to keep the revolutionary Hamas bottled up in Gaza strip.

Thanks to "forces of history", the entire Arab diaspora will drift out of American orbit and join its natural blood brothers in Iran, Turkey, Hizbullah, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Taliban and even Al-Qaida.

Revolutionary Iran, now almost a nuclear power, with the added strength of Iraq, will emerge as the leader of West Asia — supported by giant Turkey.

See the power of the "Forces of history". And how it has felled all the dictators promoted and protected by the US.

When President Hu of China visited USA, Obama gave him a lecture on human rights but the world knows that USA is the most famous supporter of Saudi Arabia and Egypt to crush all human rights.

VICTORY FOR D.V.

"Forces of history" are killing all the dictators. India's Brahminic dictators will be no exception. What happened in Egypt and other Arab countries is a big victory for DV because all that we have predicted so far have come true. Brahminic dictators are warned.

Egyptian revolution is the beginning of the fall of America and the slow death of Israel. A big victory for revolutionary Islam.

WARNING TO INDIAN RULERS

This is also a warning to Indian Brahminic dictators who have crushed our Muslims very badly to please their Jewish cousins. Now that US has become financially and politically weak (already defeated in Afghanistan), the nuclear-powered Pakistan will turn more hostile to US as India gets closer to it. We will not be surprised if the disgruntled people with the help of the Pakistani army overthrow the corrupt and hated Zardari govt. Dangerous days are ahead.

As we know the Brahminist hate-mongers so well, they will never, ever take lessons from "Forces of history".

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Muslim Brotherhood alone can rescue Egypt

The "revolution" in Egypt is a big disappointment. Zionist masters of deception have cheated the people, by "hiding" the dictator Mubarak even as his spirit lives in the army rule, and Israel stands fully protected.

The only people who can remove the current confusion and effectively tackle the zionist influence is the powerful Muslim Brotherhood.

All the pro-US autocratic Arab states headed by Saudi Arabia must go — and will go. USA criticised China for arresting a Nobel Laureate "criminal", now in jail. But the same US financed "pro-democracy" protests in revolutionary Iran just because it is a threat to Israel. If US loves democracy, why it is keeping the puppet regime in Palestine West Bank?

All these tyrants will be wiped out — shortly.


Wanted a probe into UID racket

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Reports are coming that the much-publicised UID (Universal Identity Numbers) project headed by the Karnataka Brahmin, Nandan Nilekani, is promoted to assure a big business to IT companies, mobile phone companies and such other electronic devices controlled by the upper castes.

These very same upper caste rulers are dead opposed to enumerate caste, which is our identity, in the current census operation. How our enemies have fallen to a different type of identity?

The overwhelming population of the deprived destitutes of India, comprising SC/ST/BCs and Muslim/Christian, are victims of poverty which is caused by inequality owing to the Hindu caste system. The Brahmin-driven UID circus says it is intended to solve our poverty. If so, why tackle it from the wrong end?

This ingenious Brahminic trick blessed by the "Khatri Sick" PM has roused lot of suspicion. Hundreds of contractors are making big money in the UID drive.

There are also fears that the UID will be used to promote the business of micro-finance which has already produced notorious blood-suckers like AP's Akula. Be that as it may, we demand a probe into the UID racket.


Budget disappoints the capital goods sector

Rediff - ‎9 hours ago‎
The Indian capital goods industry has not got the much needed import barriers especially for power equipments. But on the positive side, the customs duty on 23 specified high voltage transmission equipment were made at par with the end product removing ...

After 54 years, states free to levy VAT on sugar and textiles

Business Standard - Rajesh Bhayani - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
The Union government has allowed the states to impose tax on sugar and textiles for the first time in 54 years. In his Budget, the finance minister proposed to amend the Additional Duties of Excise (goods of special importance) Act, 1957, ...

Cement companies up price in Mumbai by about 6 rupees

Reuters India - Rajesh Kurup - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
Labourers work at a construction site of an upcoming large shopping mall in Mumbai March 19, 2007. By Rajesh Kurup MUMBAI (Reuters) - Cement manufacturers on Tuesday increased prices by an average 6 rupees per 50-kg bag in Mumbai, following a proposal ...

"Capital goods imported for the expansion of existing mega or ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) enjoyed a concessional basic customs duty of 2.5% and full exemption from countervailing duty (CVD). This created a disability for the domestic suppliers who are required to pay Central Excise duty on supplies to such projects," he said.
more by Pranab Mukherjee - Mar 1, 2011 - Moneycontrol.com(12 occurrences)

Budget impact on sectors| Cement

Livemint - Vatsala Kamat - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
With the cement sector struggling because of oversupply, the increase in excise duty would harm it in the near term. The industry is, however, hoping that there may be some abatement provided on non-production related elements, such as freight, ...

Excise duty relief a step in the right direction: Thermax

Moneycontrol.com - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
"Capital goods imported for the expansion of existing mega or ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) enjoyed a concessional basic customs duty of 2.5% and full exemption from countervailing duty (CVD). This created a disability for the domestic suppliers ...

Budget 2011: What it means for business

Economic Times - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
The government has added a fixed excise duty of Rs Rs 160 per tonne on cement and reduced Customs duty on petcoke and gypsum, key inputs for the sector. Cement dealers and stockists say the price of a 50 kg bag is likely to go up by Rs 5 from March 1. ...

A bold attempt to rationalise tax provisions

Daily News & Analysis - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
By Heetesh Veera | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA The budget 2011 aims at addressing the rising inflation on food commodities by promoting the agricultural sector and incentivises sectors such as capital goods, infrastructure and education. ...

Prices of branded garments may rise

Hindu Business Line - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
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The evidence of the last few years has shown that smaller MFIs and a few of the NGOs doing microfinance have not grown as fast as the others. Primarily caused by their lack of capital, the fund now managed by Sidbi will be useful in spurring the ones on the lower rungs into more service delivery, especially in the poorer areas. In this context, the announcement made by the finance minister to strengthen the role that MFIs play in financial inclusion by instituting a Rs 100-crore India microfinance equity fund with Sidbi is a welcome move. 

It would enhance the ability of smaller MFIs, mainly the not-forprofits and cooperatives, to achieve scale and efficiency in operations. If the evidence of the earlier microfinance development and equity fund is any indication, more money will not be a problem from the government, provided disbursals are made with speed and focus, especially in unravelling the complexity of the work of smaller MFIs. Hence, the objective of getting all the channels to grow with a steady speed will be feasible. The corpus of Rs 500 crore for the women's SHG development fund is an extremely important step forward and it will bring back community focus in financial inclusion. Self-help groups (SGHs) have more than Rs 20,000 crore outstanding , but are displaying signs of slowing down because of a variety of reasons. 

Most prominent among them are the lack of promotional skills, high cost of accounting skills and disciplines and the absence of any significant technology solution for service providers. This pool of money will enable SHG institutions to get the resources they need for these functions. That said, the challenge will be in the deployment of this money effectively. One hopes this fund will help self-help promoting institutions (SHPIs) to promote better quality SHGs as well their capacity building. The increased emphasis on the recognition of the role of micro and small enterprises towards financial inclusion is also a positive move. The current scenario of the sector is worrisome, as lakhs of poor households are waiting for their next cycle of credit. MFIs are facing an acute liquidity crunch, and need an urgent funding line to keep up their operations. There is an urgent need to look into this situation. 

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(The author is executive director, Sa-Dhan ) 

Economic liberalisation in India

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The economic liberalisation in India refers to ongoing economic reforms in India that started in 1991. After Independence in 1947, India adhered to socialist policies. In the 1980s, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi initiated some reforms. In 1991, after India sold 67 tons of gold to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government of P. V. Narasimha Rao and his finance minister Manmohan Singh started breakthrough reforms.[1] The new neo-liberal policies included opening for international trade and investment, deregulation, initiation ofprivatization, tax reforms, and inflation-controlling measures. The overall direction of liberalisation has since remained the same, irrespective of the ruling party, although no party has yet tried to take on powerful lobbies such as the trade unions and farmers, or contentious issues such as reforming labour laws and reducing agricultural subsidies.[2] The main objective of the government was to transform the economic system from socialism to capitalism so as to achieve high economic growth and industrialize the nation for the well-being of Indian citizens.[3][4] Today India is mainly characterized as a market economy.[5]

As of 2009, about 300 million people—equivalent to the entire population of the United States—have escaped extreme poverty.[6] The fruits of liberalisation reached their peak in 2007, when India recorded its highest GDP growth rate of 9%.[7] With this, India became the second fastest growing major economy in the world, next only to China.[8] An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report states that the average growth rate 7.5% will double the average income in a decade, and more reforms would speed up the pace.[9]

Indian government coalitions have been advised to continue liberalisation. India grows at slower pace than China, which has beenliberalising its economy since 1978.[10] McKinsey states that removing main obstacles "would free India's economy to grow as fast as China's, at 10 percent a year".[11]

For 2010, India was ranked 124th among 179th countries in Index of Economic Freedom World Rankings, which is an improvement from the preceding year.

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Indian economic policy after independence was influenced by the colonial experience (which was seen by Indian leaders as exploitative in nature) and by those leaders' exposure to Fabian socialism. Policy tended towards protectionism, with a strong emphasis on import substitution,industrializationstate intervention in labour and financial markets, a large public sector, business regulation, and central planning.[12] Five-Year Plans of India resembled central planning in the Soviet UnionSteelminingmachine toolswatertelecommunications,insurance, and electrical plants, among other industries, were effectively nationalized in the mid-1950s.[13] Elaborate licences, regulations and the accompanying red tape, commonly referred to as Licence Raj, were required to set up business in India between 1947 and 1990.[14]

Before the process of reform began in 1991, the government attempted to close the Indian economy to the outside world. The Indian currency, the rupee, was inconvertible and high tariffs and import licensing prevented foreign goods reaching the market. India also operated a system of central planning for the economy, in which firms required licenses to invest and develop. The labyrinthine bureaucracy often led to absurd restrictions—up to 80 agencies had to be satisfied before a firm could be granted a licence to produce and the state would decide what was produced, how much, at what price and what sources of capital were used. The government also prevented firms from laying off workers or closing factories. The central pillar of the policy was import substitution, the belief that India needed to rely on internal markets for development, not international trade—a belief generated by a mixture of socialism and the experience of colonial exploitation. Planning and the state, rather than markets, would determine how much investment was needed in which sectors.

– BBC[15]

In the 80s, the government led by Rajiv Gandhi started light reforms. The government slightly reduced License Raj and also promoted the growth of the telecommunications and softwareindustries.[citation needed]

The Vishwanath Pratap Singh government (1989–1990) and Chandra Shekhar Singh government (1990–1991) did not add any significant reforms.

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[edit]Narasimha Rao government (1991–1996)

Present Prime Minister Manmohan Singhwas then Finance Minister in Cabinet of Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao

[edit]Crisis

The assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, and later of her son Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, crushed international investor confidence on the economy that was eventually pushed to the brink by the early 1990s.

As of 1991, India still had a fixed exchange rate system, where the rupee was pegged to the value of a basket of currencies of major trading partners. India started having balance of payments problems since 1985, and by the end of 1990, it was in a serious economic crisis. The government was close to default,[19] its central bank had refused new credit and foreign exchange reserves had reduced to the point that India could barely finance three weeks' worth of imports.

A Balance of Payments crisis in 1991 pushed the country to near bankruptcy. In return for an IMF bailout, gold was transferred to London as collateral, the Rupeedevalued and economic reforms were forced upon India. That low point was the catalyst required to transform the economy through badly needed reforms to unshackle the economy. Controls started to be dismantled, tariffsduties andtaxes progressively lowered, state monopolies broken, the economy was opened to trade and investment, private sector enterprise and competition were encouraged and globalisation was slowly embraced. The reforms process continues today and is accepted by all political parties, but the speed is often held hostage by coalition politics and vested interests.

– India Report, Astaire Research[8]

[edit]Later reforms

[edit]Impact of reforms

The HSBC Global Technology Center inPune develops software for the entire HSBCgroup.[21]

The impact of these reforms may be gauged from the fact that total foreign investment(including foreign direct investmentportfolio investment, and investment raised on international capital markets) in India grew from a minuscule US$132 million in 1991–92 to $5.3 billion in 1995–96.[22]

Cities like GurgaonBangaloreHyderabadPune and Ahmedabad have risen in prominence and economic importance, became centres of rising industries and destination for foreign investment and firms.

Annual growth in GDP per capita has accelerated from just 1¼ per cent in the three decades after Independence to 7½ per cent currently, a rate of growth that will double average income in a decade. [...] In service sectors where government regulation has been eased significantly or is less burdensome—such as communicationsinsuranceasset management and information technology—output has grown rapidly, with exports of information technology enabled services particularly strong. In those infrastructure sectors which have been opened to competition, such as telecoms and civil aviation, the private sector has proven to be extremely effective and growth has been phenomenal.

– OECD[9]

[edit]Ongoing economic challenges

OECD summarized the key reforms that are needed:

In labour markets, employment growth has been concentrated in firms that operate in sectors not covered by India's highly restrictive labour laws. In the formal sector, where these labour laws apply, employment has been falling and firms are becoming more capital intensive despite abundant low-cost labour. Labour market reform is essential to achieve a broader-based development and provide sufficient and higher productivity jobs for the growing labour force. In product markets, inefficient government procedures, particularly in some of the states, acts as a barrier to entrepreneurship and need to be improved. Public companies are generally less productive than private firms and the privatisation programme should be revitalised. A number of barriers to competition in financial markets and some of the infrastructure sectors, which are other constraints on growth, also need to be addressed. The indirect tax system needs to be simplified to create a true national market, while for direct taxes, the taxable base should be broadened and rates lowered. Public expenditure should be re-oriented towards infrastructure investment by reducing subsidies. Furthermore, social policies should be improved to better reach the poor and—given the importance of human capital—the education system also needs to be made more efficient.

– OECD[9]

[edit]Reforms at the state level

The Economic Survey of India 2007 by OECD concluded:

At the state level, economic performance is much better in states with a relatively liberal regulatory environment than in the relatively more restrictive states".[9]

The analysis of this report suggests that the differences in economic performance across states are associated with the extent to which states have introduced market-oriented reforms. Thus, further reforms on these lines, complemented with measures to improve infrastructureeducation and basic services, would increase the potential for growth outside ofagriculture and thus boost better-paid employment, which is a key to sharing the fruits of growth and lowering poverty.[9]

[edit]See also

[edit]References

  1. ^ Timeline:India -BBC 1991
  2. ^ "That old Gandhi magic". The Economist. 27 November 1997.[dead link]
  3. ^ "India's surprising economic miracle"The Economist. 30 September 2010. Retrieved Sep 30th 2010.
  4. ^ Chakrabarti, Anjan; Cullenberg, Stephen (2003). Transition from socialism to capitalism in indiaISBN 9780415934855.
  5. ^ "India's great journey to market economy"Rediff.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  6. ^ Nick Gillespie (2008). "What Slumdog Millionaire can teach Americans about economic stimulus". Reason.
  7. ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html#Econ
  8. a b c "The India Report". Astaire Research.
  9. a b c d e f "Economic survey of India 2007: Policy Brief". OECD.
  10. ^ "India's economy: What's holding India back?". The Economist. 6 March 2008.
  11. ^ "The McKinsey Quarterly: India—From emerging to surging". The McKinsey Quarterly.
  12. ^ Kelegama, Saman and Parikh, Kirit (2000). Political Economy of Growth and Reforms in South Asia. Second Draft.
  13. ^ Sam Staley (2006). "The Rise and Fall of Indian Socialism: Why India embraced economic reform".
  14. ^ Street Hawking Promise Jobs in FutureThe Times of India, 2001-11-25
  15. a b c d "India: the economy". BBC. 12 February 1998.
  16. ^ "Redefining The Hindu Rate Of Growth". The Financial Express.
  17. ^ "Industry passing through phase of transition". The Tribune India.
  18. ^ Eugene M. Makar (2007). An American's Guide to Doing Business in India.
  19. ^ India's Pathway through Financial CrisisArunabha Ghosh. Global Economic Governance Programme. Retrieved on 2 March 2007.
  20. ^ J. Bradford DeLong (2001). "India Since Independence: An Analytic Growth Narrative".
  21. ^ "HSBC GLT frontpage". Retrieved 2008-08-22.
  22. ^ Local industrialists against multinationals. Ajay Singh and Arjuna Ranawana. Asiaweek. Retrieved on 2 March 2007.
  23. ^ "IMF calls for urgent reform in Indian labour laws".
  24. ^ Kaushik Basu, Gary S. Fields, and Shub Debgupta."Retrenchment, Labor Laws and Government Policy: An Analysis with Special Reference to India". The World Bank.
  25. ^ R. C. Datta / Milly Sil (2007). "Contemporary Issues onLabour Law Reform in India".
  26. ^ Aditya Gupta (2006). "How wrong has the Indian Left been about economic reforms?".
  27. ^ Basu, Kaushik (27 June 2005). "Why India needs labour law reform". BBC.
  28. ^ "A special report on India: An elephant, not a tiger". The Economist. 11 December 2008.
  29. ^ "India Country Overview 2008". The World Bank. 2008.
  30. ^ Gurcharan Das (July/August 2006). "The India Model". The Foreign Affairs.

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Stop poking Congress ahead of polls, Trinamool told
‎3 hours ago‎ - Sify
Mamata won't contest polls, but wants to be CM
‎7 hours ago‎ - IBNLive.com
Didi ready with TMC poll list
‎16 hours ago‎ - Times of India
Mamata doodles, Shashi tweets
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - Calcutta Telegraph

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  1. <B>T S Vishwanath:</B> Is this really about environment?


    Business Standard - 3 hours ago
    The negotiations for liberalising trade in environmental goods at the World ... Countries such as India, China and Brazil are of the opinion that these ...
  2. A new opening act


    Indian Express - 16 hours ago
    These steps towards greater capital account liberalisation will not only attract foreign capital for India's enormous infrastructure needs, but they will ...
  3. India's new health tax misses the point


    Financial Times (blog) - Amy Kazmin - 1 day ago
    India may have completed two decades of market-oriented economicliberalisation. But its' deep-rooted socialist mindset – especially attitudes about the ...

    Financial Times (blog)
  4. PM's Group for Ban on Futures Trading in Essential Items


    Outlook - 2 hours ago
    The Working Group has also recommended liberalisation of agriculture markets for ... of Food Corporation of India (FCI) operation in terms of procurement, ...
  5. India, Malaysia sign trade liberalisation pact


    domain-B - 18 Feb 2011
    The goods package under the India-Malaysia CECA takes the tariffliberalisation beyond the India-ASEAN FTA commitments on specific items of mutual interest ...
    Services gains seen as India, Malaysia enter pact today‎ - Economic Times
    India, Malaysia ink trade pact‎ - Business Standard
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  6. India-ASEAN sets trade target of $70 billion


    The Day After - Asit Manohar - 6 hours ago
    The Deputy Secretary General of ASEAN for ASEAN Economic Community said that the ASEAN-India FTA would see tariff liberalisation for over 90 per cent of the ...
    India, Asean aim to boost trade 40% by 2012‎ - Business Times (subscription)
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    The Hindu
  7. Centre pushing neo-liberal policies: CPI(M)


    The Hindu - 1 day ago
    NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday said the Union ... Furtherliberalisation of rules for Indian mutual funds-accessing foreign ...
  8. India budget will spur investment: US chamber


    Economic Times - 1 day ago
    WASHINGTON: A leading US trade association has praised India's budget, saying it sets ... American industry also praised the liberalisation towards foreign ...
    India budget will spur investment: US chamber‎ - Sify
    India budget will spur investment: US chamber‎ - TopNews
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  9. Union Budget 2011-12 Aditya Birla Money


    Moneycontrol.com - 1 day ago
    Inflation at stubbornly high level in India: Centre has failed to tame ...Liberalisation of FDI: FDI is sorely required to increase growth without causing...
    Why 9% growth may not be good for Indians...‎ - Equitymaster.com
    FY2011/12 Budget: The Devil Is In The Details‎ - Asia Monitor (subscription)
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  10. Corruption, corporate battles scaring away foreign investors?


    Deccan Herald - Vikas Bajaj - 15 hours ago
    India's rise has captured the world's imagination, ... and domestic protectionism over further economic liberalisation...

    Deccan Herald

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  1. Economic liberalisation in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    The economic liberalisation in India refers to ongoing economic reforms in India that started in 1991. After Independence in 1947, India adhered to ...
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Caution on flagship schemes, outlays see a meagre hike

Indian Express - ‎11 hours ago‎
Caught between the traditional urge of resorting to populism and narrowing down the fiscal deficit, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee chose the latter in the Budget for 2011-12. Contrary to expectations, he refrained from making ambitious outlays for ...

'Higher allocation to education shows Govt's priority'

Times of India - Vishwas Kothari - ‎12 hours ago‎
PUNE: Member of Planning Commission Narendra Jadhav has said that the government's overriding priority for education is evident from the Rs 52057 crore allocation for education sector in the Budget -- up by 24 per cent over the current year. ...

Boosting human capital

Sify - ‎22 hours ago‎
In the pre-budget Economic Survey 2010-11, the Union finance ministry made a strong pitch for the pro-growth impact of investment in human capital adding, "fortunately, there is awareness of this in India and efforts are afoot in terms of budgetary ...

FM targets growth rate of 9 per cent

Times of India - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
RANCHI: The Union Budget for the year 2011-12 announced by the finance minister on February 28, seems to have made efforts to achieve a high growth trajectory combined with fiscal consolidation. With an estimated increase in the GDP of the order of ...

Budget 2011: Debt burden to rise to Rs 43.52 lakh cr by Mar 2012

Economic Times - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: India's outstanding debt burden will increase by 10.7 per cent to Rs 43.52 lakh crore by March 2012 on account of high levels of market borrowing. Outstanding debt liability of the government would rise from Rs 39.30 lakh crore at the end of ...

Budget 2011: India's subsidy bill up by over 100% in 4 years

Economic Times - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: India's subsidy bill will jump by more than 100 per cent during the four-year period ending 2011-12 to Rs 1.43 lakh crore mainly on account of rising outgo towards petroleum and food items. As per the Budget presented by Finance Minister ...

Onions may not be a good investment in 2011, if . . .

Rediff - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
'Biggest reforms are not the ones that make the headlines, but the one's concerned with the details of governance, which affect the everyday life of the aam aadmi.' -- Pranab Mukherjee, Budget Speech, February 28, 2011. All of us can heave a sigh that ...

'Budget made no special mention of education hub'

Indian Express - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Even as educationists across the city lauded the allocation of Rs 21000 crore to the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and the introduction of scholarships for the SC/ST students of Classes IX and X, many were unhappy that Pune, which has so many ...

In Home, thrust on crime and housing, little for Naxal war

Indian Express - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
The Budget outlay for the Home Ministry more than doubles the allocations for both criminal investigation and vigilance. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee also announced a new Plan scheme for housing personnel of Central paramilitary forces, ...

Let's count what we have

Indian Express - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
You can't get more ambitious than this. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee expects that the total expenditure will grow by a meagre 3.38 per cent, or just Rs 41153 crore in absolute terms, in 2011-12 compared with what the government spent in 2010-11. ...

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'Higher allocation to education shows Govt's priority'
‎12 hours ago‎ - Times of India
RTE hiccups? Only 40% hike for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - Hindustan Times
City gives mixed response to budget
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - Times of India
Union Budget 2011: Highlights
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - NDTV.com
FM's Budget speech 2011
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - Times of India

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Higher Global Oil Prices Are a Concern, India's Mukherjee Says

BusinessWeek - Tushar DharaUnni Krishnan - ‎2 hours ago‎
March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Higher oil prices are a concern, India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, underlining the threat to the nation's subsidy bill. "Uncertainty in the oil price is a serious issue which we ...

My aim in the budget was long-term solution to inflation: Pranab Mukherjee

Economic Times - ‎8 hours ago‎
In an ET Now exclusive, Swaminathan S. A Aiyar talks to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on a post-budget view of what Budget 2011 delivered for the 'aami admi' and what it failed to. Mukherjee analyses the macro factors looming large on the Indian ...

'Oil prices, euro zone debt crisis downside risks to growth story'

Indian Express - ‎11 hours ago‎
A day after painting prospects of a 9 per cent GDP rate in 2011-12, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee outlined internal and external challenges such as soaring oil prices and high inflation that could pose a threat. "The challenge before the government ...

"Uncertainty in the oil price is a serious issue which we shall have to address," Mukherjee, 75, said in an interview with Bloomberg UTV in New Delhi today.
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Get states on board, FM tells India Inc

Economic Times - ‎18 hours ago‎
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday sought help from India Inc in convincing political parties and states to push forward pending financial sector reform legislation, such as the Goods and Services Tax bill. Mukherjee's fervent appeal came at ...

<B>Letters:</B> Routine exercise

Sify - ‎22 hours ago‎
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has presented the Budget just for sake of presentation. Given the Direct Taxes Code and the Goods and Services Tax are likely to be effective from the next year, there was little left for the finance minister to do on ...

Clever Indian budget hides hard truths

Business Times (subscription) - Yogi Aggarwal - ‎22 hours ago‎
INDIA'S national budget is the most important annual event in its financial calendar. The exercise is the occasion for the Indian finance minister give form to the direction the economy will take in the coming year. ...

Financial reform Bills: Pranab banks on industry's help

Business Standard - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
With the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government not having enough numbers in Parliament to pass its various financial sector legislation, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday sought industry's support to convince the political parties to ...

Unjust, inequitable, morally wrong

Hindu Business Line - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
A fraction of the giveaways to corporates could save Indian agriculture from stress. No seer is needed to say that the Budget, branded as favouring the aam aadmi, could not have been more inequitable. 'I have spent more, yet, I have brought down the ...

Build consensus on GST, Pranab tells industry leaders

Hindu Business Line - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, with (from left) the Chief Economic Advisor, Dr Kaushik Basu; the Revenue Secretary, Mr Sunil Mitra; the Finance Secretary, Ms Sushama Nath; the President, CII, Mr Hari S. Bhartia; the Advisor to Finance ...

Govt unveils steps to track down black money

Hindu Business Line - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
Crowd at the rally against corruption and black money at Ramlila Ground,in New Delhi. (file photo) The Government on Monday announced a slew of measures to tackle the problem of black money and repatriate the money back into the country. ...

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Higher Global Oil Prices Are a Concern, India's Mukherjee Says
‎2 hours ago‎ - BusinessWeek
Objective is to prevent growth from slowing, says Pranab
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - Livemint
Pranab's budget: No new taxes, IT exemption limit raised to 1.80 lakh
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - Hindustan Times
Union Budget 2011: Excise duty retained at 10%, more items to be taxed
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - Times of India
Union Budget 2011: Pranab unveils slew of measures to spur infra investment
‎Feb 27, 2011‎ - Economic Times
Union Budget 2011 to bring in food bill for poor
‎Feb 27, 2011‎ - Economic Times
Union Budget 2011: FII investment cap in infrastructure raised
‎Feb 27, 2011‎ - Economic Times
India economy to sustain growth
‎Feb 27, 2011‎ - BBC News
Pranab Mukherjee unveils budget, says there is no drift in govt
‎Feb 27, 2011‎ - Daily News & Analysis
Expect a forward looking budget Sanjaya Baru
‎Feb 25, 2011‎ - Moneycontrol.com

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Shivaratri: Devotees descend on shrines

Times of India - Susmita Rakshit - ‎15 minutes ago‎
GUWAHATI: Devotees in large numbers were seen queuing up in front of various temples in the city on the occasion of Mahashivratri on Wednesday. This year, at many temples, the festival would be celebrated on two consecutive days. ...

Thousands throng Tanginath to worship Lord Shiva

Times of India - Ka Gupta - ‎15 minutes ago‎
GUMLA: Thousands of devotees thronged Tanginath to worship Lord Shiva at an ancient temple located on a hill top - some 72 km off the district town of Gumla on Wednesday. The occasion was Mahashivratri. It is believed that wishes of the faithful are ...

Pick-pockets on the prowl at temples

Times of India - Susmita Rakshit - ‎15 minutes ago‎
GUWAHATI: Not even the holiest of places are spared of crime and criminals. If you are a devotee of Shiva and plan to visit the temple to offer prayers this Shivratri, be on your guard. Even as you stand with your eyes closed, all your energies ...

Pomp & show mark Mahashivratri

Times of India - ‎1 hour ago‎
VARANASI: The permanent abode of Lord Vishwanath celebrated the Mahashivratri festival in a grand style on Wednesday. While lakhs of devotees offered prayers at various temples of Lord Shiva, not only traditional Shiv Baraat but a large number of ...

This Russian is staunch Shiv devout

Times of India - Rajeev Dikshit - ‎1 hour ago‎
VARANASI: While lakhs of devotees from different parts of the country reached Varanasi, the permanent abode of Lord Shiva, to attend the wedding function of the presiding deity-- the Mahashivratri celebration-- `Dinanath from Moscow ( Russia)' also ...

India celebrates 'Mahashivratri' with religious fervour

Daily News & Analysis - ‎3 hours ago‎
Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI The faithful thronged temples to offer prayers and observed dawn-to-dusk fast as Mahashivratri was today celebrated across the country with religious fervour. Lakhs of devotees took a holy dip in the river Ganga in ...

Mahashivratri: A march of faith

Times of India - ‎7 hours ago‎
LUDHIANA: Amid the beating of drums and blowing of conch shells, the city got drenched in religious fervour as it shared the joy of participating in Mahashivratri rath yatra on Tuesday. As residents from all corners of the city got together, ...

Hindus celebrate Maha Shivratri

Sify - ‎7 hours ago‎
Thousands of devotees flocked to temples across India today to celebrate the Hindu festival of Maha Shivaratri. The festival celebrates the marriage of Lord Shiva to the Goddess Parvati, and holds immense importance in Hindu religion. ...

Mahashivratri: A day dedicated to Lord Shiva

Times of India - Rajendra P Kerkar - ‎10 hours ago‎
KERI: It's a day much looked forward to by devotees of Lord Shiva in Goa. Observed on the fourteenth day of the second half of Magh (eleventh month of the Hindu calendar), fasting, rituals and reading scriptures mark the celebration of Mahashivratri . ...

Vision of Shiva

Times of India - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Every god and goddess in Hinduism can be understood from at least four standpoints: the absolute, the cosmic the 'departmental', and the incarnate that appears on earth to re-establish dharma. From the highest standpoint, Shiva is the formless absolute ...

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Shivaratri: Devotees descend on shrines
‎15 minutes ago‎ - Times of India
India celebrates 'Mahashivratri' with religious fervour
‎3 hours ago‎ - Daily News & Analysis
Mahashivratri: A day dedicated to Lord Shiva
‎10 hours ago‎ - Times of India
Vision of Shiva
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - Times of India

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World Cup: Fireland

Daily News & Analysis - Nandini Kumar - ‎11 minutes ago‎
Ireland beat England by three wickets in what could be called as the greatest upset in World Cup history. On Wednesday, the Irish team became the first to successfully chase a total of 327, the previous ...

England vow to bounce back

NDTV.com - ‎11 minutes ago‎
PTI Bangalore: A bitterly disappointed England captain Andrew Strauss on Wednesday vowed that his side would bounce back into the tournament after their three-wicket defeat at the hands of Ireland in the cricket World Cup here....

O'Brien blazes Ireland to glory

NDTV.com - ‎35 minutes ago‎
Bangalore: Kevin O'Brien stunned England with the fastest hundred in World Cup history as Ireland secured their greatest victory with a monumental three-wicket triumph in Bangalore. O'Brien clubbed a magnificent 113 off 63 deliveries as Ireland earned ...

"It was a bitterly disappointed defeat for us. We thought we had done a reasonable job with the bat and also with the ball initially. They were down five wickets for 100-odd runs. We weren't expecting such an innings from Kevin O'Brien," Strauss said after the match which Ireland won largely due to heroics of O'Brien who hit the fastest World Cup ton in 50 balls.
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Man of the Match: Kevin Joseph O'Brien

Times of India - ‎36 minutes ago‎
So then! It was an amazing batting display from the Ireland team. This game has certainly ignited the World Cup. England on the other side, would be wondering about how to get their bowling combination right. They would want to get things right before ...

O'Brien blast shocks England

SkySports - ‎47 minutes ago‎
Kevin O'Brien scored a 50-ball century as Ireland chased down a target of 328 to upset England by three wickets at the World Cup. O'Brien's effort was the fastest hundred in tournament history, all the more incredible given his side looked dead and ...

Ireland upset England in WC match

The Hindu - ‎1 hour ago‎
Ireland beat England by three wickets in another high-scoring match at Bangalore in one of the biggest upsets in the ongoing World Cup. The Group B match was almost similar to the India-England tie last Sunday with the bowlers getting carted around all ...

O'Brien hails 'best ever innings'

BBC News - ‎19 minutes ago‎
Ireland batsman Kevin O'Brien said his record-breaking century in the dramatic World Cup one-day win over England was the best innings he had ever played. O'Brien reached his 100 off 50 balls, the fastest century in World Cup history, and ended on 133 ...

Kevin O'Brien's World Cup record: century in 50 balls

NDTV.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
PTI Bangalore: Ireland batsman Kevin O'Brien on Wednesday entered into World Cup record books by hitting the fastest century in the mega event's history in just 50 balls during his side's Group B match against England. O'Brien bettered Matthew Hayden's ...

ICC World Cup 2011: O'Brien smashes fastest ton to beat England

Economic Times - ‎53 minutes ago‎
BANGALORE: Kevin O'Brien smashed the fastest ever World Cup century to propel Ireland to a stunning three-wicket win over England in a Group B match on Wednesday. An astonishing knock by O'Brien, who clobbered 13 fours and six sixes to reach three ...

Cricket World Cup: Brilliant Ireland shock England

BBC Sport - Sam Sheringham - ‎59 minutes ago‎
Kevin O'Brien blazed the fastest century in Cricket World Cup history as Ireland pulled off an astonishing victory over England in Bangalore. The all-rounder smashed 113 off 63 balls as Ireland recovered from 111-5 to overhaul their ...

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O'Brien blast shocks England
‎47 minutes ago‎ - SkySports
Cricket-Kevin O'Brien hits fastest World Cup century, 50 balls
‎1 hour ago‎ - Yahoo! Eurosport UK
ICC World Cup: England pacemen face fight for a place
‎7 hours ago‎ - Mirror.co.uk
England v Ireland: Cricket World Cup 2011 live
‎9 hours ago‎ - Telegraph.co.uk
Ireland players bid to enhance careers against England at World Cup
‎18 hours ago‎ - The Guardian
How long can England rely on Superman Strauss to save the day?
‎Mar 1, 2011‎ - Daily Mail
Bell praises Strauss's spectacular 158 as 'best England knock I've seen'
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - Independent

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Telecom companies are 'at war', says Centre

Daily News & Analysis - Rakesh Bhatnagar - ‎26 minutes ago‎
"Telecom companies are at war," was how the Centre described the ongoing legal battle in the Supreme Court on the issue of 2G spectrum allocation on Wednesday. Faced with the judicial heat on ...

Apex court questions government on telecom firm's licence

Sify - ‎25 minutes ago‎
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the government to reveal what happened between March 5, 2010, when telecom company S Tel's second generation (2G) licences were cancelled, and April 15, 2010, when they were restored. ...

New Delhi SC raps raja over 'improper' letter to PM

Hindustan Times - ‎23 minutes ago‎
The Supreme Court on Wednesday criticized former telecom minister A Raja for using "intemperate" and "objectionable" language in December 26, 2007 letter to PM Manmohan Singh on the issue of spectrum allocation policy. The bench was anguished over the ...

A new dimension in 2G spectrum case has emerged: SC

Economic Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
NEW DELHI: A new dimension has come out in the 2G spectrum case, the Supreme court today said after going through a government file pertaining to cancellation and restoration of license to Chennai-based telecom operator S-Tel during the tenure of A ...

Raja's expressions objectionable: Supreme Court

The Hindu - ‎4 hours ago‎
PTI PTI File photo of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with former Telecom Minister A. Raja. The Supreme Court has criticised Raja for using "objectionable" language in a letter to Singh. Former Telecom Minister A.Raja, prime accused in the 2G case, ...

Special Court to try 2G spectrum case

Economic Times - ‎21 hours ago‎
NEW DELHI: Chief executives and promoters of 10 companies are among 63 people under investigation in the 2G spectrum scam, the Central Bureau of Investigations on Tuesday told the Supreme Court, while the government said it was debating the merits of ...

CBI has not probed Tata's role in 2G scam: NGO to SC

Economic Times - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: Prashant Bhushan , fighting a PIL in the 2G spectrum case, today alleged in the Supreme Court that CBI was not investigating direct involvement of Tata group and its reported quid pro quo arrangement with DMK. Bhushan also raised questions ...

2G scam: SC calls for DoT's letters

Economic Times - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the government to place before it the letters which allegedly reflected its "arm-twisting" policy against a Chennai-based telecom operator during the tenure of DMK MP A Raja as Telecom Minister when 2G ...

Tatas seek in-camera hearings in 2G scam

Times of India - ‎20 hours ago‎
NEW DELHI: The Tatas have sought in-camera hearings of the 2G scam. The request was made by Tata counsel Harish Salve on Tuesday who asked the Supreme Court for hearings away from the public and media after a petitioner accused the Tata group of ...

63 people under scanner in 2G spectrum case, CBI tells SC

Times of India - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: Sixty-three persons, including promoters and CEOs of 10 telecom firms have come under its scanner in the 2G spectrum case, the CBI on Tuesday told the Supreme Court which expressed satisfaction over the ongoing probe. ...

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Telecom companies are 'at war', says Centre
‎26 minutes ago‎ - Daily News & Analysis
In Raja's home, 15 euros and aide Chandolia's passport copy
‎13 hours ago‎ - Indian Express
2G scam: Raja allowed to appear before court via video-conferencing
‎Mar 1, 2011‎ - NDTV.com
63 people under scanner in 2G spectrum case, CBI tells SC
‎Feb 28, 2011‎ - Times of India

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Not just CSR but Continuous Social Business need of the hour: Mukesh Ambani

Economic Times - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: Amid the debate over making it mandatory for companies to spend at least 2 per cent of profits on CSR activities, RIL Chairman and India's wealthiest person Mukesh Ambani today suggested improving corporate social responsibility to ...

Profit can't be only priority of business: Mukesh Ambani

Moneycontrol.com - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of India's largest private sector company Reliance Industries said today that profit cannot be the only priority for business. Ambani said, "The purpose of any business cannot be only profit. Profit for the shareholders is ...

Transform healthcare delivery to people: Mukesh Ambani

Times of India - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: Co-opt rather than give handouts. For India's richest man, Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani, that's the model for achieving inclusive growth. And the way to do it is to change CSR (corporate social responsibility) into a ...

"The purpose of any business cannot be only profit. Profit for the shareholders is important. But unless entrepreneurs have a larger purpose and businesses that change lives of millions of people, a sustainable business cannot be created," he said at FICCI's Annual General Meeting here.
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Union Budget 2011 Mukesh Ambani cheers it

Moneycontrol.com - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and MD, Reliance Industries is gung-ho about the Union Budget announced by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee yesterday. According to Ambani, the FM's emphasis to address systemic issues around high food inflation by focusing ...

Indian entrepreneurs rock, says Mukesh Ambani

Hindustan Times - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
Indian entrepreneurs are not just good, but may even be better than their global counterparts, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Tuesday as he made a rare post-budget speech. "This fact has been recognised widely in the world and the ...

India, Bharat merge in Mukesh's mantra

Indian Express - ‎13 hours ago‎
Even as the government attempts the convergence of India and Bharat, Reliance Industries (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday shared his mantra with members of India Inc on how to bring about this confluence. In his address at the 83rd annual ...

India Needs Disruptive Policies to Meet Challenges, Ambani Says

BusinessWeek - ‎13 hours ago‎
By Rakteem Katakey March 2 (Bloomberg) -- India needs disruptive policies and fundamentally different solutions to help meet future challenges, Mukesh Ambani, the country's richest man, told a group of industrialists. ...

Ambani attacks Singh on economy

Financial Times - James Lamont - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man and a powerful industrialist, has challenged the government of Manmohan Singh, prime minister, to be far bolder in its approach to building India into a leading economy and world power. ...

India's richest man urges 'equitable growth'

AFP - ‎Mar 1, 2011‎
NEW DELHI — India's richest man Mukesh Ambani said Tuesday the country needed equitable growth at all levels to include millions of Indians residing in slums and villages in the mainstream of progress. Ambani, who heads India's largest private company, ...

Shaping the Future of India

NetIndian - Mukesh Ambani - ‎8 hours ago‎
(Excerpts from an address delivered by Mr Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited, at the Valedictory Session of the 83rd FICCI Annual General Meeting in New Delhi on March 1, 2011. ...

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Gadhafi Forces Attack Insurgents, Conflicting Reports on Outcome 

Voice of America - Edward Yeranian -‎37 minutes ago‎
Forces loyal to Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi attacked anti-government forces in a north-central coastal town Wednesday, and there were conflicting reports about which side was in control of the area.

Libya: UK and France to fly Egyptians from Tunisia 

BBC News - ‎2 hours ago‎
Britain and France are sending several planes to help repatriate tens of thousands of Egyptians fleeing the violence in Libya. The UN refugee agency UNHCR says "acres of people", many from Egypt, are now stranded in chaotic conditions at the Tunisian ...

WFP Appeals for More Aid for Libya 

Voice of America - ‎1 hour ago‎
Officials with the United Nations World Food Program are calling on the international community to step up action to avert a humanitarian disaster along Libya's borders.

Condemnation pours in on Bhatti's assassination 

The Hindu - Anita Joshua - ‎45 minutes ago‎
AP People rally to condemn the death of Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti during a rally in Karachi on Wednesday.

Supreme Court to decide CVC's fate Thursday 

Sify - ‎24 minutes ago‎
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court will Thursday pronounce its verdict on a petition challenging the appointment of PJ Thomas as the head of the country's anti-corruption watchdog Central Vigilance Commission.

Debating the no-fly zone 

Aljazeera.net - Jacqueline Head -‎22 minutes ago‎
Could military intervention in Libya help pro-democracy protesters or would it lead to bigger problems? Britain and the United States have said they are considering plans for establishing a no-fly zone over Libya to stop government forces from firing ...
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Pakistan 2 2 0 0 0 4 +2.160
Australia 2 2 0 0 0 4 +1.813
N Zealand 2 1 1 0 0 2 +1.507
Zimbabwe 2 1 1 0 0 2 +0.840
Canada 2 0 2 0 0 0 -3.850
Kenya 3 0 3 0 0 0 -4.825
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Group B
India 2 1 0 1 0 3 +0.870
England 3 1 1 1 0 3 +0.035
West Indies 2 1 1 0 0 2 +1.879
Sth Africa 1 1 0 0 0 2 +0.766
Ireland 2 1 1 0 0 2 -0.207
Bangladesh 2 1 1 0 0 2 -0.600
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Budget 2011

Budget 2011: Taxing times ahead

Here is an analysis of some of the measures that may justify this belief and also the challenges which will be faced by both the tax administration and tax payers.

Apparel firms Duke, Venus and Monte Carlo hike prices 10%

ET Bureau
Clothing brands Duke, Venus and Monte Carlo increased retail prices by 10% to cope with the excise duty on branded apparel announced in Budget.

Budget 2011: ULIPs to get costlier with increase in service tax

ET Bureau
Although cos are yet to figure out the impact of proposed increase, most insurance execs said premiums may go up by as much as 75 bps.

Budget 2011: How to make good of the hike in tax exemption limit

ET Bureau
By now you must have figured out that FM hasn't been kind to you. However there are ways to invest whatever little you will save this year.

Budget Impact: Price rise to hurt household budget

There's much more to the Budget than what meets the eye. Here' s how the price rise is going to hurt the household consumers.
Union Budget 2011 will push growth further
Union Budget 2011 will push growth further
Sandesh Kirkire
Kotak Asset Management, CEO
Union Budget 2011 is growth oriented
Union Budget 2011 is growth oriented
CS Verma
SAIL, Chairman
Impetus to infra will help achieve target growth
Budget pampers the rich and burdens consumers
Budget pampers the rich and burdens consumers
Sitaram Yechury
CPM, Member Polit-Bureau
No big-bang reform measures announced
No big-bang reform measures announced
Sunil Mittal
Bharti Enterprises, Chairman & CEO
FM's head is in right place, so is his heart
FM's head is in right place, so is his heart
Mukesh Ambani
RIL, Chairman & MD
Smart call on keeping stimulus, tackling corruption
Smart call on keeping stimulus, tackling corruption
Kumar Birla
Aditya Birla Group, Chairman
Govt must hold the line on expenditure
Govt must hold the line on expenditure
Ajay Srinivasan
Aditya Birla Group, CEO
GST will solve lot of macroeconomic issues
GST will solve lot of macroeconomic issues
Adi Godrej
Godrej Group, Chairman
A fine balance between growth and prudence
A fine balance between growth and prudence
C Rangarajan
PMEAC, Chairman
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Tips to invest money spared by the tax axe

Though FM hasn't been very generous, there are ways to invest whatever little you will save this year.

BMW, Audi, Merc prices may zoom by over Rs 8 lakh

Other cos who are having CKD models that will be affected include Toyota Fortuner, VW Jetta and Passat and Ford Endeavour.

Pain in the neck for fliers as airlines hit fare pocket

From April 1, economy class domestic flyers will pay Rs 150, instead of Rs 100 earlier. Budget travellers going abroad will have to pay Rs 750, up from Rs 500 earlier.

ULIPs to get costlier with increase in service tax

Although cos are yet to figure out the impact of proposed increase, most insurance execs said premiums may go up by as much as 75 bps.

What's costlier, cheaper, unchanged?

After Monday's Union Budget presentation by Finance Mukherjee, some goods and services are likely to cost more, while some may become cheaper.

Duty on parts will make PCs costlier

PC costs will go up, but whether manufacturers will absorb that cost or pass it on to the consumer is not clear yet.

Most drug prices likely to go up

Prices of vaccines, anaesthetics and intravenous fluids (IV fluids) are expected to rise with the imposition of an excise levy.

Pay more for branded jewellery

This is because government has reintroduced 1% excise duty on branded jewellery and branded articles made from precious metals like gold, silver and platinum.

Education becomes expensive

Get ready to shell out more for your kid's educational and stationery products like crayons, pencils, pens, notebooks and mathematical boxes.

Ice cream to become dearer

GCMMF, which markets Amul brand of milk products, said ice cream prices would go up in a month or so, after all costs are taken into account.

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