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	Yashwant Sinha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yashwant Sinha (born November 6, 1937) is an Indian politician belonging to the BJP and a former finance minister and foreign minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet.
		Yashwant Sinha was the finance minister until July 1, 2002, when he exchanged jobs with foreign minister Jaswant Singh.
		Sinha was nicknamed Rollback Sinha, since much of his bolder reform-oriented policies in his budgets were rolled back a few days after the budget because of political pressure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yashwant_Sinha (499 words)

	YASHWANT SINHA BIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yashwant Sinha was born in Patna on 6
		Between 1980 to 1984 Sinha was joint Secretary in the Ministry of Surface Transport, Government of India.
		Yashwant Sinha became the national Spokesperson of the BJP in June, 1996 and was appointed Finance Minister of India in March, 1998.
	www.india-today.com /budget98/biosinha.html (286 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yashwant Sinha has signalled a pertinent diversification of India’s foreign policy focus since assuming charge as the minister for external affairs.
		Given this critical background, Sinha’s visits to neighbouring countries in July and August were timely initiatives to mend fences, to remove misunderstandings and apprehensions and to bring back India’s bilateral relations with these countries back on track, to the extent feasible.
		Here Sinha’s line with these countries was that India would be supportive in meeting the political and economic concerns of these countries to the maximum extent, trying to transcend previous technical and narrower perceptions of the Indian government.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1021105/asp/opinion/story_1353849.asp (1542 words)

	India - News - Budget To Be A Tightrope Walk For Yashwant Sinha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sinha is expected to announce measures to strengthen the anti-dumping mechanism under the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, particularly in the wake of the government removing quantitative restrictions on the remaining 700 odd items of import by April 1, this year.
		Besides, Sinha has also been indicating in successive forums that there is, indeed scope to widen the tax base by bringing more areas under the service tax net - a suggestion given by the economic survey as well.
		One of Sinha's essential tasks would be to ensure that the fiscal deficit is kept low, particularly since the inflation rate has been creeping up steadily and has crossed the 8.5-per cent mark as on February 10.
	www3.estart.com /india/news/dilemmasinha.html (779 words)

	Indo-Asian News Service -> India-Politics-Lead BJP -> BJP removes Yashwant Sinha as spokesman (LEAD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Party sources said Sinha's removal was the first in a string of disciplinary steps to be taken against the senior BJP leader for talking against the party in public.
		Sinha, a Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand, may be asked for an explanation and could also face more severe action such as expulsion.
		Sinha had expressed doubts whether Advani would be effective as leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha after his resignation.
	www.eians.com /stories/2005/06/28/28bj.shtml (370 words)

	Gulfnews: Yashwant Sinha faces the axe
		Sinha accused of having received election campaign material from the controversial Flex Industries chairman Ashok Chaturvedi, currently lodged in a prison after having been caught red-handed giving a bribe to a senior excise official, clarified his position for the first time since the controversy broke out on Sunday.
		Sinha's anti-middle class budget has made him a villain within the BJP and he was squarely blamed for the party's humiliating string of defeats in the February assembly polls in four states.
		Prabhat Kumar, Governor of Sinha's home state Jharkhand, had to resign after he initially denied that Chaturvedi paid for some of the parties he hosted in New Delhi while he was the cabinet secretary.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/02/05/15/51070.html (867 words)

	rediff.com: Should Yashwant Sinha go? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is a lesson in all this for Sinha: if you are not willing to put your job on the line for some things, you cannot be effective in anything.
		Sinha's fear may be that if he offers to hand in his chit, it may be accepted.
		But Sinha thinks he should have been told about this in some formal manner - when everyone and the dog and the lamp-post knew what was wrong with Unit-64.
	www.rediff.com /money/2002/may/21spec.htm (911 words)

	Yashwant Sinha, a profile: Finance Minister, Government of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yashwant Sinha was born at Patna, the capital city of Bihar, India on 6th November, 1937.
		Sinha joined the elite Indian Administrative Service in 1960 through a tough competitive examination and spent over 24 years holding important posts during his service tenure.
		Sinha resigned from the Indian Administrative Service in 1984 and joined active politics as a member of the Janata Party.
	www.indianembassy.org /special/cabinet/sinha.htm (406 words)

	Yashwant Sinha's supporters may hurt BJP - Sify.com
		Sinha loyalists reveal Devdayal was angry because the Union Minister treated Rakesh Prasad, who hails from Patratu, as his pointman in Hazaribagh.
		Sinha, who was already battling to ward off the national level anti-incumbency, tried his best to win over these two senior party leaders but they were always suspicious of his motives.
		Sinha supporters argue that teaching them a lesson was essential for the future of their leader.
	sify.com /news/politics/fullstory.php?id=13660151 (567 words)

	Yashwant Sinha faces an acid test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sinha has stressed the need to kick-start the economy and contain inflation and a fiscal deficit that ballooned to 6.1 percent of GDP last year.
		Sinha has felt the loneliness of the job long before prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee appointed him last March.
		Capital investment expenditure is pared to the bone, and Sinha needsprivate investment for the vital infrastructure sector.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19980601/15255164.html (728 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yashwant is unhappy because Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, his party colleague, does not take him into confidence on policy decisions.
		Yashwant accused the Munda government of corruption and extravagance and said it was ineffective in solving the water and power problems in the state.
		Yashwant was made opposition leader but he quit when he was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996.
	www.the-week.com /25jul10/currentevents_article5.htm (756 words)

	Government to widen automatic approval ambit -- Yashwant Sinha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sinha expressed concern about India's fiscal deficit and said he was determined to keep it under check.
		Sinha has also defended the decision of the Government to increase the price of diesel by stating, "It was inevitable and in the long-term interest of the general public."
		Sinha pointed out difficulties in achieving the lowerinterest regime as long as the Government continues to borrow at high rates from the market.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19991024/fec24002.html (865 words)

	IT News - Outsourcing Benefits India, US: Yashwant Sinha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Noting that it was "really unfortunate" that Americans had lost their jobs due to outsourcing, Sinha said that if the issue was considered in the overall perspective, both India and the US had accrued benefits.
		Sinha tried to assuage the feelings of American businessmen and said India was not affecting the US economy or jobs.
		Sinha is also scheduled to meet National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and former ambassador to India Robert D. Blackwill, who is now the coordinator for strategic planning at the White House.
	www.bangaloreit.com /src/newsDetails.asp?id=2&date=Jan-21-2004 (424 words)

	Yashwant Sinha produced before CJM, sent to custody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ranchi: BJP's Rajya Sabha member and former union minister Yashwant Sinha, arrested yesterday for locking up central government offices during office hours, was today (Feb 16 2006) produced before a court in Hazaribag which remanded him to judicial custody for 12 days.
		Sinha was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate after being booked under Section 151 of the CRPC (Arrest to prevent the commission of cognizable offences).
		Sinha last night told sources on phone that the agitationists had put locks on some central government offices in Hazaribag on Monday.
	news.indiainfo.com /2006/02/16/1602yashwant-produced-before-cjm.html (317 words)

	Yashwant Sinha roadshow comes under attack
		Sinha was campaigning with Kuswaha and other party members in Hazaribagh Town assembly constituency for the forthcoming elections in the state when a group of people attacked them.
		Kuswaha was moved to safety as soon as the attack began, but Sinha stood his ground and even made a small speech exhorting people to "vote for the party and not the candidate".
		Former external affairs minister Sinha had lost the election in Hazaribagh constituency in the Lok Sabha elections in 2004.
	in.rediff.com /election/2005/jan/30sinha.htm (174 words)

	Yashwant Sinha bids farewell to his team- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on Monday bid adieu to his big team in South Block, hoping the new leadership would build on the achievements of the NDA government on the foreign policy front.
		Praising the IFS officers, Sinha said his tenure as External Affairs Minister since July 2002, was perhaps the best in his serving career, both as a bureaucrat earlier, and as also in the government.
		Sinha, who had to swap his Finance portfolio with Jaswant Singh, said the IFS has one of the finest cadres in the country and that he was proud to have led such a talented lot.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-681448,prtpage-1.cms (246 words)

	The Hindu : National : Will this `foreigner' tag hurt Yashwant Sinha?
		Two-time winner and Foreign Minister in the Vajpayee Government, Yashwant Sinha, is up against a rainbow coalition of Opposition parties, dissent within the Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh and the hot weather that is curtailing audience participation at his public rallies.
		Sinha faces in repeating his impressive performance of the 1999 elections when nearly half the votes polled went his way.
		Sinha problems are compounded with BJP rebels chipping away at his support base.
	www.hindu.com /2004/04/18/stories/2004041803401000.htm (717 words)

	Yashwant Sinha's unwitting success- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		the euphoria over sinha's budget last february dissolved as it gradually became clear that he lacked political backing in the cabinet, rajya sabha and state governments to push ahead with labour reforms, urban land reforms, or food procurement reforms.
		sinha looked forward to joining the miracle economies of south-east asia within three years, promising sweeping second-generation reforms, cut taxes and pump-primed the economy for all he was worth.
		sinha has shrugged aside the election result in his budget, and rightly so.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-2603582,prtpage-1.cms (834 words)

	Yashwant Sinha loses -DAWN - International; 14 May, 2004
		Mr Sinha, a member of outgoing Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party, lost to Bhubaneswar Prasad Mehta of the Communist Party of India from Hazaribagh in the eastern state of Jharkhand.
		Mr Sinha, 66, was appointed foreign minister in July 2002 when he swapped the finance portfolio with Jaswant Singh.
		A former university professor, Mr Sinha served as a diplomat in Germany from 1971 to 1974 before becoming a civil servant in India.
	www.dawn.com /2004/05/14/int11.htm (171 words)

	Yashwant Sinha may quit BJP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yashwant Sinha’s dismissal from the post of party spokesperson may result in the end of his career with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
		Sinha defended his remarks against L K Advani and Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, for which he was sacked, and said, “I have no regret for what I have said.
		According to Javadker, Sinha had crossed the Laxman Rekha by going against the party line, and as a spokesperson was only supposed to reflect the party position.
	web.mid-day.com /news/nation/2005/june/112695.htm (240 words)

	Embassy of India, Kyiv
		Yashwant Sinha, External Affairs Minister, at the 25th Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of G -15, on February 27, 2004 in Caracas, Venezuela
		Yashwant Sinha, External Affairs Minister of India, at the Ceremony of Unveiling the Bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Djibouti
		Yashwant Sinha, External Affairs Minister of India at the concluding session of the SAARC Journalists Summit Organized by the South Asian Free Media Association
	www.indianembassy.org.ua /english/speeches.htm (990 words)

	Indiantelevision.com > News Room Headlines > Yashwant Sinha to anchor people's show on Zee News. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The channel has roped in former finance minister Yashwant Sinha to anchor a show on its channel.
		The show, which promises to be a 'people oriented show', will go on air by mid-May. And as the buzz goes, Sinha will be playing a roving reporter for the channel by traveling across the country, interviewing people from the nooks and corners of India.
		Also, Sinha has been a lecturer and a bureaucrat earlier and comes from a family with very strong grassroots.
	www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k5/apr/apr355.htm (394 words)

	Union Budget 1999-2000
		Shri Yashwant Sinha, Union Finance Minister, presenting the Budget 1999-2000 in the Lok Sabha today, stated that this was an attempt to rationalise the duty rate structure so as to reduce multiplicity of rates and also to ensure convergence towards a central rate with a merit rate and demerit rate.
		For the year 1998-99, Shri Yashwant Sinha said that the fiscal deficit is likely to touch 6.5 per cent of GDP as against the budgeted target of 5.6 per cent on the basis of comparable GDP estimates.
		Shri Sinha also announced that to increase the reach of banks to the tiny sector, lending by banks to non-banking financial companies for purposes of on-lending to tiny sector is being included within the definition of priority sector for bank lending.
	pib.nic.in /archive/bud9920/99gbreleases.html (4766 words)

	Budget for the year 2000 presented by Yashwant Sinha
		The union budget for 2000-01 presented by finance minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday hiked the surcharge on personal income-tax from 10 to 15 percent, raised excise duty on several items by restructuring the levy, made cigarettes costlier but the custom duty on crude and petroleum products and computer items were slashed.
		He also stressed that the government's strategy would be to strengthen the foundations of growth of the rural economy, nurturing growth potential of knowledge based industries like IT, pharmaceutical and bio-technology and modernising traditional industries like textiles, leather and agro-procesing.
		Sinha decided to phase out the concessions on the export earnings of various kinds which currently enjoy exemptions from income tax by withdrawing the concessions by 20 per cent from the financial year 2000-01 in each
	www.ahmedabad.com /news/2k/mar/1budget.htm (648 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - BUDGET
		Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha today proposed to introduce a provision in the Income Tax Act for imposing a penalty of Rs 10,000 in cases where a false Permanent Account Number is quoted in the documents relating to specified transactions.
		Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said in his budgetary proposals that the amendment would be applicable in institutions to be specified by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette for the purpose of the clause.
		Mr Sinha said there had been a persistent demand that the benefit of carry forward and set-off of past losses in cases of mergers of companies owning industrial undertakings, be extended to more sectors, adding, the move would encourage growth in the telecom sector which was undergoing a phase of rapid consolidation and expansion.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020301/budget.htm (6593 words)

	News Archives - News coverage on the meeting of Polaris CEO, Arun Jain, with Minister of External Affairs, Yashwant ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sinha had spoken to his Indonesian counterpart pressing for the immediate release of Jain who alongwith another colleague Rajiv Malhotra was held last month following a complaint lodged by Bank Arth Graha with whom their company had a million-dollar contract.
		Sinha had spoken to his Indonesian counterpart pressing for the immediate release of Jain who along with another colleague Rajiv Malhotra was held last month following a complaint lodged by Bank Arth Graha with whom their company had a million-dollar contract.
		Polaris Chief Arun Jain with External Affairs Minister Yaswant Sinha on Friday, Sinha had approached the Indonesian Government for Jain's release after he was detained by the police in Jakarta in connection with a commercial dispute with Bank Artha Graha.
	www.polaris.co.in /media/releases/2003_reljan_media_sinhameet.htm (659 words)

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