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Editorial – Why the hullabaloo over Obama's tax reform proposals?
US President Barack Obama's "say no to Bangalore and yes to Buffalo" remark and his proposal that the US administration would stop letting American firms which ships jobs abroad take deduction on their expenses in their tax liabilities per se smacks of protectionism and naturally, Indians have been up in arms against Obama's supposed anti-outsourcing diatribe.
12 May 2009 |
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Slowdown, political uncertainty hit infrastructure
One of India's most ambitious infrastructure projects, an $325 million eight-lane bridge running through the sea off Mumbai, opens next month after negotiating a maze of bureaucracy, courts and street protests.
12 May 2009 |
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Obama's curbs on outsourcing fail to ruffle India's feathers
India's $60 billion outsourcing industry, already reeling under the global economic meltdown, is gearing for dark days ahead, especially with US President Barack Obama indicating that he is keen on ending tax breaks for American companies that shipped jobs overseas to countries like India.
11 May 2009 |
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700 Taliban dead; refugees over 1100,000- Pakistan
Pakistan's army pressed on with an offensive against the Taliban on Monday as the government said 700 militants had been killed and a suicide bomber killed 10 people at a security checkpost.
11 May 2009 |
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RBI says arrested rate of growth decline
Measures taken by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have arrested the rate of decline in the economy and inflation is not a concern for now, one of its deputy governor said on Monday.
11 May 2009 |
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India grew 6.5 pct in FY09, CPI inflation to fall - PM
India's economy grew an estimated 6.5 percent in the just-ended 2008/09 fiscal year and consumer price inflation is expected to moderate in five to six months, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday.
11 May 2009 |
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Improving markets helped banks pass stress test
U.S. bank regulators breathed a huge sigh of relief in early April when improving financial markets looked set to push the nation's 19 largest banks through the gauntlet of tough "stress tests" in reasonably good shape.
09 May 2009 |
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Germany has plan for Opel if GM bankruptcy: paper
Germany has a plan to protect the assets of carmaker Opel from creditors if its U.S. parent General Motors is forced into bankruptcy next month, German Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said in an interview with a German weekly.
09 May 2009 |
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Fed cut banks' deficits after negotiations: report
The Federal Reserve reduced the size of capital deficits facing several banks before releasing the results of "stress tests" on the financial institutions, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday.
09 May 2009 |
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