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Market-friendly Chidambaram toes socialist line with fiscal plan
The usually crisp and precise P. Chidambaram was uncharacteristically vague on Monday while announcing the government’s fiscal consolidation plan. While pledging to bring the fiscal deficit down to 3...
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Miffed Chidambaram widens rift with RBI
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram usually does not talk to the throng of news-hungry reporters and cameramen gathered outside the gates of the red sandstone colonial building which houses the finance...
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Subbarao goes against his panel, again
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author, and not necessarily those of Thomson Reuters) Finance Minister P. Chidambaram is not the only one walking alone. Duvvuri Subbarao, the Reserve Bank...
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Online survey results: Expectations from Budget 2013
Days before Finance Minister P. Chidambaram unveils India’s budget for the next financial year, the online team at Reuters India conducted an informal survey of more than 200 people to learn what they...
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Chidambaram may use Morton’s fork to make rich pay
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Reuters) The countdown to Budget 2013 has begun, and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram must try to keep India’s fiscal deficit from gaining...
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Taxing times for reporters on the Chidambaram beat
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not necessarily of Thomson Reuters) Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s drive to shore up government coffers is not just giving businessmen...
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L&T Infra Finance CEO upbeat on India’s economic recovery by 2015
India’s economy recorded its slowest growth in a decade in the fiscal year ending in March but the CEO of L&T Infrastructure Finance, that provides loans to companies such as Jaypee Group to...
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India’s love for gold and the government’s efforts to curb it – a timeline
Google Trends shows that the term “current account deficit” is among top searches from India in 2013. Add “gold” as a comparative keyword and the searches for the commodity Indians love are far higher....
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Interview: Chidambaram on the state of India’s economy
By John Chalmers, Frank Jack Daniel and Manoj Kumar (This article is website-exclusive and cannot be reproduced without permission) The Indian government will have to rein in spending and cut subsidies...
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Interview: Chidambaram on Modi, Rahul Gandhi and becoming PM
By John Chalmers, Frank Jack Daniel and Manoj Kumar (This article is website-exclusive and cannot be reproduced without permission) P. Chidambaram, now in his third stint as finance minister, spoke to...
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