Clarke Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 KV Kamath Appointed BRICS Bank Chairman...quid pro quo??? Not sure, the statistic from fitch was basically what he said about corporates in debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalpat Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Reality check: Has Rahul Gandhi been accurate in making political attacks on Narendra Modi government? SUPPORT PRICE Rahul: UPA hiked wheat MSP from Rs 640 to Rs 1,400 per quintal. Modi govt's annual hike was only Rs 50 REALITY: That Rs 640-1,400 hike came in 10 years, from 2004-05 to 2013-14. So, false comparison. And UPA-II's MSP hike in its last year was Rs 50 too. Same order of increase in support prices Increase in minimum support prices Rs /Quintal REAL ESTATE BILL Rahul: UPA defined an apartment's carpet area clearly — as net usable area excluding walls. Modi govt has complicated matters by bringing in the National Building Code REALITY: Revised Bill says real estate can be sold only on actual carpet area Rahul: UPA didn't allow change in plan post approval and project launch. Modi govt Bill allows undefined 'minor alterations' REALITY: Revised Bill says builder need 'yes' from two-thirds of allottees for making a change. Allows minor alterations for architectural & structural reasons AMETHI FOOD PARK Rahul: Scrapping of food park is politics of revenge. Project would have given better prices to farmers REALITY: Amethi project a non-starter since its 2010 sanction. And govt says the petroleum ministry under UPA in 2013 had refused to supply gas to the project AGRI CREDIT Rahul: Farm credit hike averaged 20% every year under UPA. Modi govt gave only 5% REALITY: RBI data show farm credit growth was 15% in 2014-15, roughly Modi's first year, compared with 13.5% in 2013-14, UPA's last year. And the hikes given out so far by Modi govt are more than 5%. The 2015-16 budgetary hike is around 6.5% Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/47240819.cms?utm_source=FbM&utm_medium=ETFbMain&utm_campaign=ETFbMain&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Entering-the-dragon-Tough-moves-hard-talk-ahead-of-PM-visit/articleshow/47259030.cms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 No photos of politicians except for PM/Prez to appear in government ads, says Supreme Court. Good move - though this would now add to Modi's narcissism. Would have been truly epic if this had happened during UPA - only MMS would have been in ads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket_Hacker Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Any progess on high speed rail?Still feasibility reports being done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalpat Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Any progess on high speed rail?Still feasibility reports being done? I read somewhere that they are planning to have a DMRC like corporation for High speed train and state governments will also be stake holders in the corporation. With a person like Suresh Prabhu incharge, I think we can hope for something concrete to happen very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Shashi Tharoor's take on the Black Money Bill - http://m.ndtv.com/opinion/the-black-money-bill-is-like-a-medu-vada-762703?pfrom=nri_videowidget_cat_6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_B_ Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Government retains 51% FDI in multi-brand retail http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/government-retains-51-fdi-in-multi-brand-retail/articleshow/47253684.cms i am glad the bjp did a u turn on this. They were dumb to oppose it in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_B_ Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I see that FDI limits have been boosted heavily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket_Hacker Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I read somewhere that they are planning to have a DMRC like corporation for High speed train and state governments will also be stake holders in the corporation. With a person like Suresh Prabhu incharge' date=' I think we can hope for something concrete to happen very soon.[/quote'] so basically nothing.....feasability studies are just a hogwash,they have been going on since 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket_Hacker Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Shashi Tharoor's take on the Black Money Bill - http://m.ndtv.com/opinion/the-black-money-bill-is-like-a-medu-vada-762703?pfrom=nri_videowidget_cat_6 medu vada :hatsoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Two suns in the East As Modi visits Beijing, let’s remember there is space for both India and China’s ambitions as global powers. Written by*Ram Madhav - See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/two-suns-in-the-east/#sthash.5bivOeNn.dpuf Important article. Ram Madhav is swiftly rising within the BJP and I'm sure this wasn't written just by him but had inputs from PMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Haryana Govt appoints a commission to investigate Robert Vadra land deals. Retired Delhi HC Justice S.N. Dhingra to head the Commission. Good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diga Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Two suns in the East As Modi visits Beijing, let’s remember there is space for both India and China’s ambitions as global powers. Written by*Ram Madhav - See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/two-suns-in-the-east/#sthash.5bivOeNn.dpuf Important article. Ram Madhav is swiftly rising within the BJP and I'm sure this wasn't written just by him but had inputs from PMO. Not sure..He has authored several books & the latest one was on China "Uneasy Neighbours: India and China after Fifty Years of the War" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diga Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 1 year of Modi Sarkar.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeautifulGame Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Ab ki baar, UPA sarkar: A year later, Modi govt looks very familiar by: Sandipan Sharma*May 15, 2015 Ab ki baar UPA sarkar. Almost a year after he won the Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has achieved the impossible: he has given us another year of UPA. From Congress*mukt*(free) Bharat in 2014, we now have a Congress*yukt*(containing) government. Spot the difference between MMS (Manmohan Sarkar) and NMS (Narendra Modi Sarkar). Foreign Direct Investment in Retail: approved by UPA-2, opposed by the BJP, cleared by the Modi government. Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill, favoured by UPA, blocked by BJP-led states, now being steered by Modi. Nuclear Power Treaty: Midwifed by MMS, delivered by NMS... Add to these the decision to raise FDI in private insurance (UPA), the land swap treaty with Bangladesh, promise of increased allocation to MNREGA and we have a pretty picture of a government that has been loyal to the UPA past. Some of Modi's U-turns to UPA have been embarrassingly opportunistic. On September 20, 2012, the BJP enforced a*Bharat Bandh*to protest FDI in retail; its leader Nitin Gadkari shared the stage with the Left and Samajwadi leaders to label the bill as anti-farmer. A few weeks later, the then leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, moved a motion against FDI. In politics too, like in cinema, motion se hi emotion, so Swaraj turned it on in the Parliament. "Will Wal-mart care about the poor farmer's sister's wedding? Will it send his children to school? Will it notice his tear and hunger?" she said in a melodramatic speech laced with filmy dialogue. In 2013, on becoming chief minister of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje matched Sushma's thunder with fierce action. Like the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi, Raje banned FDI in retail in Rajasthan, forcing some of the existing players to shut shop and go back home. And, now it has somersaulted back into 2012. On Wednesday, the Modi cabinet decided to stick to UPA's decision of allowing foreigners to invest 51 per cent in multi-brand retail. So, will Wal-mart now help the*bechara kisan*get his sister married and children educated? No. "As a party, we are opposed to that change and our stand remains the same. This was a law enacted by Parliament where it was not backed by the BJP. However, this has become a law and making any change in law would send a negative signal to foreign investors who expect continuity in the economic regime," BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao explained the latest volte-face. Rao's argument is rooted in irony. If the BJP were really sentimental about the past, concerned about continuity, cared about laws passed by the Parliament, it wouldn't have turned the UPA's Land Acquisition Bill-which, unlike FDI in retail, was backed by the BJP-into a fresh political and legislative issue. Incidentally, the land acquisition bill is another pointer to how the Congress is still dictating the agenda even after being reduced to two digits in the Parliament. While Modi has been able to get some of the laws originally proposed by the UPA cleared by the Parliament, he has not moved much with some of his own innovations and ideas. In the case of UPA laws, the BJP was against it before it was for it. In the case of BJP promises, it was for it before it was against it. It is all so terribly confusing. When it celebrates a year of Modi, sarkar, the BJP will list its social security schemes--the Pradhan Mantri Yojanas- as its achievements. But, in a scathing critique of the schemes-accident insurance, life insurance and pension plan - an article on*Scroll.in*argues all of them have an element of fraud and are old (UPA) wine in new (Modi) bottles. In spite of their bitter rivalry, there has been very little to separate between the Congress and the BJP, when they are in power. The formula for both of them has been same: while in opposition oppose, when in government support. The Congress doublespeak is apparent in its tactics on the GST bill. After trying for several years to get the new proposals implemented, it is now creating roadblocks in the Parliament. Even in the past, it has made many about turns on policy decisions, depending upon which benches its MPs occupy in the Lok Sabha. Moral of the story: The more the things change, more they remain the same. This is not to say that Modi hasn't done anything in the past year that's different from the UPA raj. He has travelled tirelessly in the past 12 months, visited 16 countries, showcased India's investment potential and strengthened bilateral ties and trade with many countries. During the UPA government, foreign diplomacy was largely ignored and very little effort was made to aggressively pursue foreign investments. But, how much of this frenzied focus on foreign visits has helped India? The dollar, as people are pointing out on twitter in a caustic reminder of another Modi*jumla, is on an escalator and the Rupee is on ventilator. The GDP numbers, after some jugglery, haven't moved from wherever they were earlier. Perhaps Modi needs more time. And things will change after another year of UPA*sarkar, or whatever it is called under Modi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkt.india Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 So, will Wal-mart now help the*bechara kisan*get his sister married and children educated? No. Please ask him who does Wal-Mart affects a Kissan? Wal-mart is a Metro thing. It has nothing to do with farmers and will not affect in small towns. We already have McDonalds, KFC, etc. Are they affecting our local momo-chowmin walas, or tikki, vada paw walas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeautifulGame Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Please ask him who does Wal-Mart affects a Kissan? Wal-mart is a Metro thing. It has nothing to do with farmers and will not affect in small towns. We already have McDonalds' date=' KFC, etc. Are they affecting our local momo-chowmin walas, or tikki, vada paw walas?[/quote'] That should be asked to our foreign minister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkt.india Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 That should be asked to our foreign minister that was poor too. There isnt much difference between Congress and BJP when it comes to policies. Only difference might be the scams where Congress trumps BJP hands down, atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 The nuts and bolts of the new black money law May 15, 2015 11:09 IST The Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets (Imposition of Tax) Act, 2015, approved by Parliament this week,*empowers the Union government to enter into agreements with other countries for the exchange of information, recovery of tax and avoidance of double taxation. In the first of a three-part series Paranjoy Guha Thakurta details the salient features of the new law. http://m.rediff.com/business/column/column-paranjoy-guha-thakurta-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-the-new-black-money-law/20150515.htm?sc_cid=twshare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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