The government is thinking of setting up a National Social Security Fund with an initial corpus of Rs. 1,000 crore for workers in the unorganised sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday the Indian economy would grow at 8.25 percent in the current fiscal, but this will have little meaning unless there is equitable growth.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said in Berlin on Friday that Britain wanted to be a "positive player" in Europe, after inaugural talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
Venezuela and Russia have bolstered bilateral ties during a visit to the South American country by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. They have signed dozens of accords in a range of sectors, most notably defence and energy.
The uproar in Nepal over the government's decision to award a prestigious passport deal to an Indian company continued on Monday with a parliamentary committee summoning Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal for an explanation.
India and Canada are finally set to sign a civilian nuclear agreement during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit here for the G-20 summit at the weekend.
Amid growing concerns that the Reserve Bank of India's decision to shift to the base rate modal from the current Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR) from July 1 will make credit costlier for exporters, an industry body Monday urged the country's central bank to continue regulating export credit to ensure that the cost of export credit does not increase under the new system.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday formed three working groups, including one headed by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, to recommend measures on tackling shooting food prices.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is attending a G20 meeting at Busan in South Korea June 4-5 focused on the global financial crisis ahead of the Summit in Toronto later this month where India will be led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
India has emerged as the third highest steel producer during the calender year 2009, according to a report released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday in New Delhi.
With Canadian taxpayers paying through their nose to host the G8 and G20 summits this month, many political leaders, including former prime minister Paul Martin, have joined in protests against the billion-plus dollar cost of the gatherings.
The Spanish government plans to launch transportation projects valued at 17 billion euros ($22.7 billion) over the course of this year and 2011, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Wednesday in introducing the Special Infrastructure Plan, or PEI.
Focusing more on domestic demand rather than exports will help the developing economies to counter the global uncertainties, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said at the G-20 Summit in Toronto on Sunday.
The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change Friday gave in principle approval to the National Water Mission and suggested that its basic approach should be to make water conservation a peoples' movement in the country.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has reiterated his administration's commitment to reduce the country's budget deficit by implementing austerity measures.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said that the economy can get back to 9 percent growth path soon, adding that the country's highly entrepreneurial private sector and rich human resources can play a crucial role to boost the recovery process.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has said that his government will unveil "in the coming weeks" the details of a proposal to raise taxes on the wealthiest Spaniards, part of a wide-ranging austerity plan to trim deficits.
President Pratibha Patil has accepted the resignation of Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Saturday night from the Council of Ministers on the recommendation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The world takes a "benign view" of India and is not worried about its rise, unlike the case of China, and India should take advantage of it, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday.