D Raja gets CPI ticket for Rajya Sabha

Communist Party of India (CPI)'s national leaders, hoping to meet All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and seek her support for a Rajya Sabha seat, have decided to leave for Delhi on Sunday as ...

The National Economic Council (NEC), which is scheduled to meet on Monday (today) under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, will set GDP growth target at 4.4 percent along with the following sectoral growth targets: agriculture 3.8 ...

New Delhi, May 10: CPI-M leader Brinda Karat Friday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seeking his intervention in the appointment of the chairperson of the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI), which she said plays a big role in advancing the ...

The year-on-year "underlying inflation indicators" of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) were little changed in April, and the gap between them and headline inflation closed with the further sharp drop in headline CPI, to 1.7% in April. The MNB ...

The National Bank of Hungary's Monetary Council decided at a meeting on Tuesday to cut the central bank's key rate by 25bp to 4.75%, bringing it to a new historical low. Most market players had expected the 25bp cut, although some had thought a ...

CITU general secretary and CPI (M) MP Tapan Sen says a strategic alliance between Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited and National Mineral Development Corporation will be mutually beneficial in cutting cost and serving their own interests. In an exclusive ...

The Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO)—who together represent over 60 million older Americans—today expressed serious concern over key proposals in President Obama's FY 2014 budget that would harm seniors, especially the most ...

THE size of council rate rises has sparked a call for State Government intervention to end "the great rates rip-off". Mary Massina from lobby group Tasmanians for Reform said rate increases continued unchecked each year and, despite claims to the ...

Economic Performance and Labour Market in 2012 In 2012, the Singapore economy grew by 1.3%, moderating from the 5.2% growth in 2011.1 Total employment increased by 129,100 or 4.0% in 2012, slightly above the growth of 122,600 or 3.9% in 2011. The ...