Finance Minister Blog Posts

New Delhi. The Union Finance Minister (FM), Shri P. Chidambaram, said that India with its focus on inclusive development and timely interventions has been able to weather the global crisis better than most other countries. He said that with liber...

ISLAMABAD: The United States on Thursday assured Pakistan of an early release of $600 million Coalition Support Fund (CSF) arrears, increasing OPIC support for projects in Pakistan from $100 million to $1 billion, launch $80 million Pakistan Investme...

A 34 year-old man has been taken into custody for questioning after he was seen taking pictures of Finance Minister P. Chidambaram at the airport here, airport sources said today. They said Amir was seen taking pictures of the Minister, who left for...

Eamon MacCobb writes from Dublin: There I am, gnashing a venison sausage in the best lunchtime eatery in the whole of Ireland. The Winding Stairs, overlooking the Liffey by the beautiful diddy Ha’penny Bridge. The setting is perfect and the people...

Eamon MacCobb writes from Dublin: There I am, gnashing a venison sausage in the best lunchtime eatery in the whole of Ireland. The Winding Stairs, overlooking the Liffey by the beautiful diddy Ha’penny Bridge. The setting is perfect and the people...

 Finance Minister P. Chidambaram today expressed the hope that economic ties with the United States would improve with the re-election of Barack Obama as the US President. "I congratulate President Obama. I hope that Indo-US relations will get s...

ISLAMABAD: The cabinet’s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approved a bailout package worth around Rs8 billion for Pakistan Steel Mills, Express News reported on Tuesday. A profitable entity until 2011, the accumulative losses of the state-r...

Pakistan’s defense financial statement has see a considerable rush forward of further than 50.171 billion rupees in the central budgetary allocation for the year 2012-13 unveil by the administration on Friday, while the defense minister see the esc...

The House of Representatives said it would lead the review process of the oil and gas sector and that such endorsement has been transmitted to the executive. It said this is to facilitate effective transparency and accountability, and the direct part...

With the possibility that Liberia will, in the coming years, become an oil-exporting nation, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf departs today, April 18, for Houston, Texas, for meetings with petroleum sector executives in the energy capital of the Unite...

Finance Minister Amara Konneh last Friday announced that the country's treasury is under attack, reporting an eminent US$11.2 million salary budget shortfall and firing eight of the Ministry's employees for their connection to a dubious deal, just be...

  The new IIP* numbers were out,  Wild data was bruited about,  Economists are tense  Figures don't make sense  Who's compiled them? Statistical louts? IIP: Index of Industrial...

Jakarta, Strategydesk - an agreed amount of the bailout was enumerated by eurozone finance ministers last weekend credible and do not need plus more, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said yesterday.   "The new agreement is quite convi...

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has presented a balanced budget. Here you may check out that what would be the impact of this budget proposals on diferent items.  The minister has brought cheer to the individual taxpayer by raising the basic incom...

Finance Minister Will Announce The Union Budget: The Finance Minister is all set to announce the Union Budget 2012 on 16 March 2012. Here’s a list of reforms that may affect your household budget. The Finance Minister may finally introduce the...

Ireland’s government announced Tuesday it will impose euro1 billion ($1.35 billion) in new taxes to help the bailed-out country reduce its deficits as international donors expect. Finance Minister Michael Noonan said he would increase charges o...

I watched the start of what we in America call a lame duck president. The minute that Medvedev supported Putin in the Next presidential election, he had to have known that his power would falter and sputter. I think that is why they waited so long to...

It was Bubblegumgate last week, Pranab's office was bugged so he shrieked, Why is he surprised, When he should surmise Like a sieve all ministries leak.