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	Economy of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		India was the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 8.1% at the end of the first quarter of 2005–2006.
		India's public expenditure is classified as development expenditure, comprising of central plan expenditure and central assistance and non-development expenditures, comprising of capital expenditure and revenue expenditure.
		India, with a population of 1.027 billion people, is the second most populous country in the world, accounting for nearly 17% of the world's population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economy_of_India (6130 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pranab Mukherjee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pranab Mukherjee (born December 11, 1935, West Bengal, India) is the Defence minister of India in the Manmohan Singh government.
		He served as Finance Minister of India between 1982 and 1984, and President of West Bengal state unit of Congress in 1985.
		The Finance Minister of India is a cabinet position in the Government of India.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pranab-Mukherjee (615 words)

	Yashwant Sinha, a profile: Finance Minister, Government of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Yashwant Sinha was born at Patna, the capital city of Bihar, India on 6th November, 1937.
		He was Under Secretary and Deputy Secretary in the Finance Department of the Bihar Government for 2 years after which he worked in the Ministry of Commerce as Deputy Secretary to the Government of India.
		He was appointed All-India General Secretary of the party in 1986 and was elected Member of the Rajya Sabha (the Upper House of the Indian Parliament) in 1988.
	www.indianembassy.org /special/cabinet/sinha.htm (406 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Feroze Gandhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He was the husband of Indira Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India and daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Indian Prime Minister.
		Arrested and jailed during the Quit India Movement less than six months after their marriage, he was imprisoned for a year in Allahabad's Naini Central Prison.
		The Parliament of India (or Sansad) is bicameral.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Feroze-Gandhi (1090 words)

	CBS News \| Finance Minister: India Must Be More Open
		India's economy is currently growing by 7 percent annually, but experts and officials said it could emulate China's success and expand faster.
		Although India has increasingly allowed foreign direct investment since switching from a socialist-style economy in the early 1990s, many foreign companies still feel further reforms are necessary.
		India has received $4.5 billion in foreign direct investment this year, a fraction of what economic rival China has drawn during the same period, Chidambaram said.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/11/27/ap/business/printableD8E50S58K.shtml (486 words)

	Statement by the Honourable Mr. Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister of India at the International Monetary and Financial ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is noteworthy that strong growth in India was accompanied by remarkably subdued inflation and comfortable balance of payments.
		India's external reserves are presently at the highest level ever.
		The framework proposed by the G-7 Finance Ministers in their Report to the Koln Economic Summit prima facie suggests that the balance of initiative lies with the country concerned.
	www.imf.org /external/spring/2000/imfc/ind.htm (1978 words)

	Government of india-Webindia123.com- Prime Ministers
		Youngest Prime Minister of the World's largest democratic country, was born in 1944.
		Served as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 1971-73, External Affairs Minister, Defence Minister and Human Resources Minister in Congress Government from 1980 onwards and later as the Prime Minister.
		Minister of External Affairs (89-90, 96-97), Ambassador to USSR (76 - 80).
	www.webindia123.com /government/prime.htm (428 words)

	India finance minister sees high oil price hurting growth.
		India's Finance Minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, told reporters in Singapore on Tuesday that he expects the high price of oil to hurt economic growth of the world's most populous democracy.
		India is net importer of crude oil which hit a record high of 57.60 U.S dollars a barrel on March 17, 2005, may see a drop in economic growth by half a percentage point a year, he said.
		India, according to analysts, is expected to grow at 6.9 percent per year for the year ending March 31st 2005.
	www.maldivesinfo.gov.mv /news.php?newsid=6533 (175 words)

	rediff.com Business News: India's finance minister warns banks over rising non-performing assets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		India's finance minister Yashwant Sinha has said that his ministry is working towards reduction in the corporate tax structure, import duty, and non-planned expenditure in order to achieve a growth rate of 7 to 8 per cent every year from the coming fiscal year.
		Bimal Jalan, the Reserve Bank of India governor, said that the development of human resources and induction of latest technology were the two most emerging challenges before the Indian banking sector in the competitive financial world.
		Earlier, in his address at the board meeting of the Industrial Development Bank of India or IDBI, Sinha said that the comfort of government ownership among the employees of state-owned banks and financial institutions would not be available in future.
	www.rediff.com /business/2000/mar/28sinha.htm (949 words)

	Indian National Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But the party ruled India for of the time after independence under Jawaharlal Nehru Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi her son Rajiv Gandhi and P.
		Shortly thereafter Sonia Gandhi was nominated the 19 Congress allies to be the Prime Minister of India.
		Eminent economist former Union Finance Minister and senior leader Dr. Manmohan Singh was backed by her for the of Prime Minister.
	www.freeglossary.com /Indian_National_Congress (737 words)

	India’s Finance Minister to Lecture on U.S.-India Economic Relations
		He was inducted into the Union Council of Ministers in 1985 as a deputy minister in the Ministry of Commerce and then in the Ministry of Personnel.
		Following the elections in June 1991, he was inducted into the Union Council of Ministers as minister of state in the Ministry of Commerce and held the post till July 1992.
		He was re-appointed as minister of state in the Ministry of Commerce in 1995 and named Finance Minister in 1996, a post he held till 1998.
	www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/05-09-16-01.all.html (389 words)

	Definition of Manmohan Singh
		His policies of economic liberalizations and reforms as finance minister under the Narasimha Rao government in the 1990s, including reduction of several redundant socialist policies, brought the country back from a looming economic bankruptcy.
		His appointment is also notable as it comes 20 years after India witnessed significant trouble between the Indian government and Sikhs, which ultimately led to the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
		Sonia Gandhi was elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party and was expected to become the Prime Minister but in a surprise move, declined to accept the post and instead nominated Dr. Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Manmohan_Singh (561 words)

	Commanding Heights : Globalization and Poverty \| on PBS
		For P. Chidambaram, former commerce minister of India, it is reversals of the movement toward free trade that pose the highest risk of hurting the world's poor.
		Manmohan Singh, India's former finance minister and architect of liberalization, saw in globalization an opportunity for developing country governments in the form of a challenge.
		India's software entrepreneur Narayana Murthy, a beneficiary of expanded trade, cautioned that rich countries retained the capability to arrest the benefits of globalization in favor of domestic concerns.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/ufd_poverty.html (453 words)

	Laws 4 India - Finance Minister speech - Speech Part -A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It will assist in the partial financing of the cost of developing an economic reform programme and financially viable projects to be undertaken by urban local bodies.
		India’s global leadership in computer software must now be complemented by another area of our core competence, the vast terrain of the entertainment industry.
		As a measure of welfare of the defence forces and their families, and, as announced by the Prime Minister in his Independence Day speech, a major programme of housing construction for defence personnel is also being taken up.
	www.laws4india.com /indiantaxlaws/budget2002/speech_a.asp (9535 words)

	Asia Society: Speeches, The Hon. Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister for India
		I should know because I was the Finance Minister at the height of the balance of payment crisis that we experienced in 1991 in the wake of the Gulf War.
		If India is able to achieve this target, we would have made a very substantial contribution to the international community's goal of reducing the number of poor in the world by 2015, poor people who are compelled to live on less than US$1 a day.
		Minister, one hears of the existence of a strong anti-liberalization lobby in the country in India and it apparently involves a lot of fairly important RSS people.
	www.asiasociety.org /speeches/sinha.html (6266 words)

	Prime Minister's Office
		India’s fourteenth Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh is rightly acclaimed as a thinker and a scholar.
		Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was born on September 26, 1932, in a village in the Punjab province of undivided India.
		In what was to become the turning point in the economic history of independent India, Dr. Singh spent five years between 1991 and 1996 as India’s Finance Minister.
	pmindia.nic.in /body.htm (417 words)

	Finance Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hans Eichel, Federal Finance Minister of Germany is visiting India on 14-15 October, 2004, at the invitation of Finance Minister Shri P...
		The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.
		Budget Speech 2004-05 Speeches of the former Ministers of Finance.
	www.dbsfinman.com /finance_minister.htm (117 words)

	Forex News Update India finance minister urges US business leaders to invest more in the country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		India is on a sustainable 8 pct annual growth track, Chidambaram told US business leaders accompanying US President George W. Bush on a three-day visit to India that began Wednesday.
		The minister was speaking at a conference on Indo-US Economic Cooperation, organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry, India's leading business lobby, and the US India Business Council.
		Chidambaram said India is looking for a large flow of foreign direct investments to boost the economy.
	www.forextelevision.com /FT/AFX/ShowStory.jsp?seq=80340 (369 words)

	Nilacharal - A Tamil entertainment ezine presenting interesting contents and useful services
		In all the [five] years that he was finance minister of India, he never drew any salary.
		Was in charge of preparing the economic manifesto for the Congress party during 2004 election campaign.
		His grandson Raghav: Personally, I would have liked him to be the Finance Minister but then all this excitement happened and Sonia Gandhi said she would not be PM.
	www.nilacharal.com /enter/celeb/manmohansingh.html (722 words)

	Sikh Institutes at www.sikh-history.com
		He is also a first non-Hindu prime minister of India which has 80% hindu majority, a very distinguished and respected Sikh.
		Dr. Manmohan Singh was born at Gah, west Pakistan in the house of Sardar Gurmukh Singh ji and Sardarni Gursharan Kaur ji on September 26 1932.
		After 1984 riots he sold his house at Delhi and bought at Chandigarh but when he was made a finance minister in the government of Narasimha rao in 1991 he got a government quarters.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/personalities/manmohan2.html (209 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Transcript of the Election Day Results Chat
		To all Rediff regulars in India and especially abroad, we would like to especially reassure that come the middle of March, India will have a government headed by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a government that will be honest and earnest in serving the people well and improving the global image of India.
		India is the only country where secular values have been kept alive by the Congress and like-minded parties such as the UF.
		The situation in India now is that neither the BJP nor the Congress, the two largest forces, can form a government without enlisting the support of some post-poll ally.
	www.rediff.com /chat/elec15.htm (5055 words)

	Transforming Lives in India: Finance Minister Presents Citigroup Micro Entrepreneur Awards
		They represented the millions in India and around the world who have used microfinance loans, small amounts of credit extended to entrepreneurs with no collateral, to change lives, communities, and countries.
		Joining the finance minister in honoring the entrepreneurs were Citigroup Country Officer Sanjay Nayar and Global Consumer Group Country Business Manager Sarvesh Sarup as well as prominent businesspersons who served on the jury that chose the finalists from among a field of 300.
		In 1997, Citigroup was one of the first companies in India to identify microcredit as a key driver for social empowerment and sustainable development.
	www.citibank.com /citigroup/features/india050311.htm (711 words)

	webindia123.com-Indian History-Modern-Prime Ministers of India
		He served as Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1952-56.
		She was shot dead in 1984 at her residence.
		A brilliant parliamentarian, orator, poet and journalist, Freedom fighter and social worker, was born in 1924.
	www.webindia123.com /history/modern/pm.htm (428 words)

	ABC News: Finance Minister: India Must Be More Open (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, center, Executive Chairman World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab, left, and President Confederation of Indian Industry Yogesh C. Deveshwar, right, look on at the India Economic Summit 2005 in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005.
		Hundreds of executives and policy makers from around the world gathered Sunday to explore business opportunities in India, one of the world?s fastest-growing economies that is increasingly opening up to foreign competition and investment.
		NEW DELHI Nov 27, 2005 (AP)— India must open its economy more to foreign competition to accelerate its already rapid economic growth, the finance minister said Sunday.
	abcnews.go.com /Business/wireStory?id=1349903 (440 words)

	India's finance minister unveils populist budget, aims for 10 pct growth - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		India's poor roads, railways, ports and other infrastructure are seen by economists as key hurdles to achieving higher growth.
		Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told reporters the budget was aimed at the 'common man' and that the finance minister had laid the foundations for strong growth.
		The finance minister raised military spending by 7.2 pct to 890 bln rupees, including 374 bln rupees for capital expenditure to upgrade military hardware.
	www.forbes.com /home/feeds/afx/2006/02/28/afx2557821.html (674 words)

	Pranab Mukherjee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pranab Mukherjee belongs to the category of Congress party members who are popular with the Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, but do not enjoy a similar level of respect within the party's cadre.
		His closeness to Sonia Gandhi helped him gain the prestigious position of Defence Minister of India when the party came to power in 2004.
		He married Suvra Mukherjee on July 13, 1957 and has two sons and a daughter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pranab_Mukherjee (205 words)

	Commanding Heights : Scientific Planning \| on PBS
		By the late 1980s, India had fallen far behind the Southeast Asian "tiger" economies, which it had once far surpassed in wealth.
		Chidambaram was India's finance minister in the government that oversaw India's opening to trade and the rollback of the Permit Raj, in the early 1990s.
		An eminent economist, Manmohan Singh was India's finance minister and the principal architect of the reforms that opened India's economy beginning in 1991.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/ufd_indiaplanning.html (257 words)

	Open Letter to Prime Minister Jamali: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This would be the first time in the history of civilization that a sitting Prime Minister’s only supporters were his opponents (or your humble civilian supporters such as yours truly).
		As the political gimmickry continues to backfire and provide great entertainment to the indifferent man on the street, there is little doubt that the political structure created with the excuse that it would bring stability has failed to fool even the die-hard Fauji supporters.
		Also you claim, rather grandiosely and with no substantiating arguments, that a minister has to be politician and not "a diploma or degree holder in his field".
	www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00003704&channel=civic&start=150&end=159&page=16&chapter=2&order=0#39 (2286 words)

	India's Finance Minister: From Mild-Mannered to Man of Action (int'l edition)
		Indian Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha is a worried man. In January, Sinha warned that India was facing an ''intractable'' budget deficit.
		Sinha, a career bureaucrat and former Finance Minister with few achievements to boast of, looked like a weak player chosen as a compromise between the BJP's moderates and hard-liners.
		India's total budget deficit is more than 10% of gross domestic product, according to Sinha.
	www.businessweek.com /1999/99_06/b3615151.htm (710 words)

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