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From CPM fort, Mamata claims early elections

Indian Express - ‎18 hours ago‎

West Bengal will have early polls this time, claimed Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday. ...

Banerjee asks Trinamool workers to 'resist' CPI-M violence Sify

In red bastion, Trinamool matches Marxists' powerplay Expressindia.com

Leader's sermon, ranks' frenzy Calcutta Telegraph

MyNews.in - Times Now.tv

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Mamata addresses supporters; castigates CPI(M)

Economic Times - ‎Nov 4, 2009‎

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday predicted early assembly elections in West Bengal and asked her party ...

Relatives of political leaders in fray for Nov 7 by-poll Economic Times

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Video: Left targets Mamata over Maoist links

BBC News

Probe Mamata role in trainjacking: CPM

Times of India - ‎Oct 28, 2009‎

... has turned the heat on Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee by demanding that the PM should intervene and probe the railway ministry's role in the incident. ...

NDTV.com

Video: Left targets Mamata over Maoist links

NDTV.com

Karat dismisses Mamata's charge Hindu

Mamata hand-in-glove with Maoists, allege comrades Economic Times

Sify - Hindustan Times

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For rail ministry, it's Durantos over Rajdhanis

Times of India - Mahendra Kumar Singh - ‎19 hours ago‎

NEW DELHI: Railway minister Mamata Banerjee's preference for her brainchild, Duranto, has put the iconic Rajdhanis in shade. Sources said the railways had ...

Mamata's cheap flourishes

Express Buzz - ‎Nov 4, 2009‎

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has said that the CPI(M) and the Maoists are two sides of the same coin, while chief minister Buddhadeb ...

Mamata's Durontos too fast for passengers

Hindustan Times - ‎Nov 3, 2009‎

The Durontos also benefit from being rail minister Mamata Banerjee's pet project. Sources say not wanting to invite her wrath, all zones and divisions give ...

Patient's death at SSKM sparks political fury

Expressindia.com - ‎15 hours ago‎

The CPM leaders initially threatened to march to the residence of Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee. The decision, however, was later withdrawn after some ...

A woman killed following political clashes in West Bengal DailyIndia.com

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Sikkim train in 5 yrs: Mamata

Times of India - Jayanta Gupta - ‎Oct 30, 2009‎

Speaking at the ceremony, railway minister Mamata Banerjee said, "When I said we'll complete the project in five years, I meant it. ...

Why were people not allowed to meet Mamta Banerjee publicly? VoiceofSikkim

Mamata to revive Sikkim rail link, but doubts remain domain-B

Indian Railways to connect Bhutan, Bangladesh Press Trust of India

India Business Blog (blog) - Thaindian.com

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SINDH TODAY

A woman killed following political clashes in West Bengal

India Business Blog (blog) - ‎3 hours ago‎

Banerjee asks Trinamool workers to 'resist' CPI-M violence Arambagh (West Bengal), Nov 4 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday asked her ...

Centre should caution West Bengal: Cong Press Trust of India

Ensure law and order, Chidambaram urges WB Govt. The Hindu

West Bengal serious about law and order, says Biman Bose Gaea Times

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No of listed PSUs to triple after govt's plan on disinvestment

Economic Times - ‎2 hours ago‎

In its second term, the Congress-led government has already paved the way for listing of two PSUs, NHPC and Oil India, and today's decision would result in ...

Disinvestment of listed PSUs worth Rs 25k cr Press Trust of India

Listed central psus to sell off 10% pie Rediff

Govt to List All Unlisted Profit-Making PSUs Outlook

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Sensex rebounds on disinvestment plans

Economic Times - Mohammed Sabir - ‎5 hours ago‎

"Talk about the Government of India's directive to dilute stakes in PSUs and list other PSUs coupled with plans to continue the sops kept the buzz alive ...

Deccan Herald

Plan panel pitches for aggressive disinvestment

Business Standard - ‎Nov 4, 2009‎

The government had already offloaded the shares of the Oil India Limited (OIL) and NHPC in the current fiscal, and has unveiled plans to reduce its ...

Full rupee float not now: Centre Deccan Herald

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AFP

India says to use stake sale proceeds for development

AFP - ‎34 minutes ago‎

After scoring a strong re-election victory in May, Congress said it would press ahead with disinvestment as it no longer had to depend on communist support ...

Business Standard

PSU divestment back on govt agenda

Times Now.tv - ‎9 hours ago‎

There was a mix of direct disinvestment as well as fresh equity in the case of NHPC and Oil India that were listed recently. The note said the government ...

Can Public Make Money From the Coming ipos? Seasonal Magazine (blog)

Indian Govt. Awaits Best Price To Divest Stakes In psus RTT News

Govt asks listed PSUs to expand equity bases Business Standard

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Rediff

No immediate plan to exit fiscal stimulus: Pranab

Hindu Business Line - Kamal Narang - ‎Nov 3, 2009‎

On disinvestment, Mr Mukherjee said that he was not going to read out in public the list of companies in which disinvestment would take place in the current ...

No Withdrawal Of Stimulus Now: India's Finance Minister RTT News

Stimulus packages to continue, says Mukherjee Press Trust of India

FM says stimulus to stay Chandigarh Tribune

Business Standard - The Hindu

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Gaea Times

Government should not take divestment path: CPI-M

Gaea Times - ‎5 hours ago‎

"I have made it very clear that we intend to include the public in disinvestment programmes," Mukherjee told an interactive meeting with India Inc, ...

Govt may use disinvestment funds to bridge fiscal deficit

Moneycontrol.com - ‎Nov 4, 2009‎

... disinvestment that have already been decided, all of this money will go directly to the Central government's account––the consolidated funds of India. ...

CIL may hire merchant banker to advise on divestment

Business Standard - ‎Nov 2, 2009‎

The Coal Ministry and its PSU, Coal India, is in talks with the Department of Disinvestment to "fine tune" the draft on the proposed stake sale. ...

ITDC extends 'Ashok' brand to six more hotels

Press Trust of India - ‎2 hours ago‎

"There will not be any disinvestment in ITDC hotels and we will only be adding to our existing properties through the Ashok Alliance venture," ITDC chairman ...

ITDC signs MoU with six pvt hotels to share brand name MyNews.in

State-owned Ashok Hotel to share brand name with private firms Thaindian.com

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Maoists expel 10 over poll participation

Times of India - ‎18 minutes ago‎

DALTONGANJ: CPI (Maoist) has expelled 10 of its cadres. A spokesperson of the party's Bihar Jharkhand and North Chhattisgarh Area Sub-Committee, Gopal, ...

India on brink of Maoist offensive Asia Times Online

Citizens Initiative For Peace And The Maoist Challenge CounterCurrents.org

Guns no solution to Maoist problem HardNews Magazine

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Maoists killed Saraswati to get support from Christians

Times of India - ‎2 hours ago‎

PTI 5 November 2009, 09:15pm IST BHUBANESWAR: Maoists might have killed VHP leader Laxamananda Saraswati for securing support of the minority Christians and ...

BJP fields woman from Maoist-hit seat

Times of India - ‎2 hours ago‎

DHANBAD: Poonam Prakash, the mayor of Giridih municipality, has been nominated as the BJP candidate from Maoist-hit Gandey constituency. ...

Orissadiary.com

Maoists torch two trucks on second day of bandh

Press Trust of India - ‎7 hours ago‎

Bhubaneswar, Nov 5 (PTI) Normal life was affected in southern parts of Orissa today following the bandh call of Maoists who torched two trucks in Orissa's ...

Maoists torch guest house Express Buzz

Red rampage in Malkangiri on bandh eve Times of India

Maoists blow up guest house in Orissa Hindustan Times

odishatoday.com - BreakingNewsOnline.

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Maoists ready for talks provided there is a 'ceasefire'

Press Trust of India - ‎7 hours ago‎

Kolkata, Nov 5 (PTI) With the Naxals facing the heat of an imminent concerted operation by security forces, a top Maoist leader today said the ultras were ...

Cops unclear if Kishenji uses dummies for media interaction Expressindia.com

HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS Calcutta Telegraph

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Indian Express

CPI(M) Importing Maoists from Nepal: Mamata

Outlook - ‎Nov 4, 2009‎

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today claimed that the CPI(M) was importing Maoists from Nepal and providing them with arms to terrorise the people ...

Mamata Banerjee demands action against CPI(M) and Maoists Economic Times

Maoists & Marxists two sides of the same coin: Mamata Times of India

Arrest me if I have links with Maoists: Mamata Press Trust of India

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AFP

Maoist crisis: govt needs to change stance

Livemint - Sudeep Chakravarti - ‎Nov 4, 2009‎

There is debate over whether a combat steamroller ought to be applied against Maoists, or 'surgical' strikes pursued. There is debate even over the dynamics ...

Nepal Maoists picket govt offices Times of India

Maoists Intensify Anti-Govt Agitation Across Nepal Outlook

What do the Maoists really want? Himalayan Times

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Sri Lanka Hints at LTTE-Maoist Links

Outlook - ‎2 hours ago‎

A top Sri Lankan official today said the rebel LTTE may have had links with the Maoists in India, days after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that the ...

Sri Lanka claims LTTE trained Maoist cadre: Report Zee News

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Maoists threaten to kill Koraput SP

Times of India - ‎Nov 4, 2009‎

KORAPUT: Suspected Maoists have threatened to kill SP (Koraput) Deepak Kumar Chauvan in a letter addressed to the officer. The SP received the letter on ...

SINDH TODAY

Buddha to camp in Midnapore for two days

Economic Times - ‎3 hours ago‎

KOLKATA: As a part of its two-prone action against the Lalgarh Maoists, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will pay a two-day visit to West ...

Maoist offensive sparks protest Hindustan Times

Maoists offer conditional talks, more forces rushed to Lalgarh Thaindian.com

Suspected Maoist arrested in West Bengal South Asia Mail

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Ready for Talks if Forces are Removed: Maoists

Kolkata | Nov 05, 2009

With the Naxals facing the heat of an imminent concerted operation by security forces, a top Maoist leader today said the ultras were ready for talks "if there was ceasefire on both sides" and withdrawal of the para-military forces deployed in the naxal-hit states.

"The process of talks with the central government can only begin if there is ceasefire on both sides," top Maoist leader Kishenji today said.

Asked to comment on the Centre's condition that the Maoists should abjure violence and only then it was ready to sit across the table, Kishenji told PTI over phone, "The Centre is killing innocent people in the name of tackling the Maoists and they are asking us to abjure violence, which is ridiculous."

He said the Centre would have to withdraw para-military forces from the seven states -- Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal -- and treat the problems of tribals in a sympathetic way.

"Also both the Centre and the state governments will have to apologise to the tribals for the prolonged atrocity meted out to them and the consequent suffering from the time of Independence," Kishenji said.

Asked what should be the nature of the apology, Kishenji said without elaborating, "They will have to come to the tribals and apologise."

Reminded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had yesterday referred to the systematic exploitation and social, economic abuse of tribals over the years while emphasising on change of ways of dealing with them in the battle to win their hearts, Kishenji said, "It as nothing but an eyewash".

Kishenji said political leaders from the time of Independence have said the same thing as the Prime Minister, but little had been done. "We want an end to it," he said.

"If the government thinks that speaking about the people and their problems is waging war against the country, then be it," he added.

Asked about the West Bengal chief minister's visit to West Midnapore district where he is likely to announce a Rs 1600 crore package for the development of tribal areas in three districts, Kishenji said, "The people of the areas are fed up of these kind of promises. What the state government has done in the last 33 years is known to all."

MATUA Mamata Banerjee Replicates Mayawati in Social Engineering Brahaminical!Ruling Hegemony Glorifies It as it Creates Hype for Economic Reforms Justifying Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Destruction!

No of listed PSUs to triple after govt's plan on disinvestment!The number of listed PSUs in the country is likely to triple in the months to come with the government on Thursday announcing a bold
disinvestment plan that seeks to list all profitable public sector enterprises.

At present there are around 55 listed public sector entities, and with today's announcement, the number could go up to over to 150, as nearly 100 others, including BSNL, qualify for the listing.

Meanwhile, the market cap of the 150 listed companies would represent a huge chunk of the total market cap of all the firms listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

At the end of today's trade the m-cap of the companies in the BSE PSU index stood at Rs 15.76 lakh crore, accounting for one-third of the total m-cap of BSE, which stood at around Rs 54 lakh crore.

The major surge in the m-cap tally would be from telecom major BSNL, an unlisted entity, whose valuation has been pegged at about USD 100 billion and a paid-up capital of about Rs 5,000 crore.

According to the CCEA's decision, unlisted firms with three-year track record of net profit and positive networth will have to come out with Initial Public Offerings.

In its second term, the Congress-led government has already paved the way for listing of two PSUs, NHPC and Oil India, and today's decision would result in more CPSEs hitting the capital market.

I dare not browse Star Ananda Channel which FOCUSES on Didi Charishma roundtheclock making 24 Ghanta and CPIM mouth piece GANASHAKTI Irrelevant. Not many days past, Star Anand Bazar Group showcased Buddhadeb Bhattachary as the saviour of Bengal and tried its best to justify Nandigram Genocide along with Singur Eviction ISOLATING Mamata as the Goddess of Anarch and Darkness!Just before the last Loksabha Elections, just after the Left projected Mayawati as the Next Prime Minister of India and India Incs as well as Hindutva forces indulged in Manipulation Mandate, the Ruling Bengali Hegemony as well as Star Anand Anand Bazar Patrika executed a Historical TURNAROUND to project Mamata as the Future of Bengal dumping the Marxists and Buddhadeb into Recycle BIN!

As I have been writing, the Ruling Hegemony never allows an inch space for the aboriginal, indigenous sc, st, OBC and converted minorities in any sphere of life as Bengal is ruled by the BRAHMIN Front from the Beginning. It may be noted that the Matuas never got the FOCUS even while PR Thakur was active in Politics and mobilised SC Votye bank in favour of Brahmin bania raj just after Partition betraying the Heritage and legacy of harichand Thakur and Guruchand Thakur. PR Thakur was pitted against SUBALTERN Politics in bengal as the Hegemony never forgot the History of Power sharing in between dalits and Muslims in all the three Pre Independence United Bengal and the Election of DR BR Ambedkar from East Bengal.PR Thakur was the man who never allowed Jogendra Nath Mandal to settle in West bengal while he returned from Rawalpindi.

BUT while claiming FIVE Crore Followrs of Matua Religion countrywide, including Four Crore Resettled partition Victims exiled out of Bengali geopolitics to readjust the Demography for Caste Hindu Rule in accordance of Manusmriti Apartheid theology led by Elite Brahmin Zamindars rooting in East bengal against which Harichand Thakur led Indigo Revolt and Untouchability Abolishment CHANDAL Movement! PR Thakur was coopted in Brahaminical system and the Matua Vote Bank turned again in favour of the Brahmin Front while congress was out of Power.

Even today, only Anand Bazar group is helping Mamata Banerjee in her social engineering unprecedented while rest of bengali media blacks out the development even after Mamat Converted in matua Religion taking an oath that she would worship only Harichand Thakur!

Today, an Icon from Elite Bengali Intelligentsia, a Professor in shri Chaitanya College, SHIVAJEE Pratim Basu emphasised that this Social Engineering roots in the lessons Mamata learntin recent Insurrections as Political ideologies and Organisational skills fail to mobilise a Winning Vote Bank Equation, one should use Casteology replicating Ms Mayawati.For me, as I experienced Mayawati is the Person whom the caste Hindu as well as S, ST and OBC masses hate most as they are co opted and enslaved in Brahaminical Bengali Nationality Hype as well as Marxist Hypocricy very well . The Thakurbari People and the Matuas in turn Hate DR BR Ambedkar as well as Jogendra Nath mandal and hold them responsible for the rise of Muslim League leading to partition holocaust.

Neaither PR Thakur Nor The Matua Movement ever did make any single attempt to stop the EXILE of Matua or SC refugees from bengali Geopolitics nor it Pressurised the Govt. of India to adopt a Rehabilitation Policy for the east benagl partition Victims , nor it tried to stop or save the SC matuas from Persecution, repression and Ethnic Cleansing across the Border and never tried to halt the Continuous Refugee Influx and further Disintegrration and DEGENERATION of the Indigenous, Aboriginal and converted minority Communities for whom harichand Thakur and Guruchand Thakur Resisted the Brahaminical Syste in 19th and tewntieth Century and led the Dalit renaissnce!

But the Matua Mother calims FIVE Crore Followers to help Mamata Banerjee to get a Winning Vote Bank banking on SC Votes without any Ideological organisational Home work at all!

Shivajee Pratim Basu in his article published in Edit Page of Ananadbazar Patrika with Mamat Matua with Badoma,the Matua Mother, has opined that Mamata Intiative the Matuas will be Empowered as the Movement is capable to sustain its Separate Identity and it would further break the Brahaminical Chatterjee, Baneerjee, Mukherjee dominance in Bengal.

The shares proposed to be sold-off to the public in over half a dozen listed public sector entities, as part of the government's bold disinvestment plan announced today, are worth over a whopping Rs 25,000 crore at current market price.

he government on Thursday decided that all listed central public sector undertakings (CPSUs) would increase the public holding to 10% and all unlisted profitable state-owned entities should go public.

"All profitable listed CPSEs (central public sector enterprises or CPSUs) should need the mandatory listing of 10 per cent public ownership," home minister P Chidambaram told reporters after the meeting of Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs here.

The government has also decided that all unlisted CPSEs which have made profit in the past 3 years and have a positive networth should get listed on stock exchanges, he said, adding that CPSEs would enter the market at "appropriate" time.

The decision will have a bearing on mineral major NMDC and MMTC as the public shareholding in these companies is 1.62 per cent and 0.67 per cent respectively.

As per SEBI regulation, listed companies are required to divest a minimum of 10 per cent of the equity to the public.

The minister further said the proceeds of the disinvestment would straight away go to meeting the capital expenditure of the government's social sector programmes, without being routed through National Investment Fund (NIF).

In pursuance of its disinvestment programme, the government had offloaded its stake in Oil India Ltd and NHPC in the current fiscal. It has also unveiled plans to reduce its shareholding in NTPC, Sutluj Jal Vidyut Nigam and Rural Electrification Corporation.

According to the CCEA's decision today, all the listed and profitable Central Public Sector Enterprises would have to maintain a minimum of 10 per cent public shareholding.

The listed CPSEs that are making profits and have public holding of below 10 per cent include trading firm MMTC, mining major NMDC, Neyveli Lignite, Engineers India, State Trading Corporation, Rashtriya Chemical, National Fertiliser and Andrew Yule.

If the shares in these companies are sold to the public at the current market price, then conforming to today's CCEA decision the government would be raising an estimated Rs 25,100 crore.

The government on Thursday announced a bold divestment plan that seeks to list all profitable public sector enterprises, a move that would see public offers by over 100 companies, including telecom behemoth Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited.

The funds from such sale would be directly deployed for social sector schemes, instead of being routed through the National Investment Fund.

The divestment plan also requires already listed central public sector enterprises to ensure at least 10 per cent public holding, home minister P Chidambaram [ Images ] told reporters after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, which was chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ].

According to the CCEA's decision, unlisted firms with three-year track record of net profit and positive networth will have to come out with Initial Public Offerings.

In its second term, the Congress-led government has already paved the way for listing of two PSUs -- NHPC and Oil India, and Thursday's decision would result in more CPSEs hitting the capital market.

At present, there are over 40 listed state-run companies and over 100 others, including BSNL, qualify for listing. CPSEs going to market would involve 'some disinvestment' of the government, Chidambaram said, adding that this would be done at an 'appropriate' time.

In another policy shift, the proceeds of the disinvestment can now directly fund the capital expenditure of the social sector programmes such as education and health care and need not be routed through the NIF.

"Because of fiscal constraints, a special dispensation is made for three years to directly channelise the money into the capital expenditure for social sector", Chidambaram said.

The unlisted companies which will be required to go public will include blue chip firms like Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited and Coal India Limited.

As regards the listed companies, Sebi regulations require all listed companies should have a minimum public float of 10 per cent. Several listed public sector companies, however, have less than 10 per cent public holding.

The government's decision, said SCOPE executive director U B Choubey, "will bring out the hidden networth of the state-owned companies. . .They (CPSEs) are ready and will come out with their public issues."

The corpus collected from the disinvestment, he added, should be used for expansion and modernisation of CPSEs and social sector programmes of the government.

The government had recently unveiled plans to reduce its shareholding in NTPC, Sutluj Jal Vidyut Nigam and Rural Electrification Corporation.

During the current fiscal, the government raised Rs 2,013 crore (Rs 20.13 billion) by offloading its shares in the hydro-power major NHPC and Rs 2,247 crore (Rs 22.47 billion) from stake sale in OIL.

As per the disinvestment policy of the United Progressive Alliance [ Images ], the government is committed to offloading equity in public sector undertakings while retaining 51 per cent stake.

"The public sector undertakings are the wealth of the nation, and part of this wealth should rest in the hands of people. While retaining at least 51 per cent government equity in our enterprises, I propose to encourage people's participation in our disinvestment programme", Mukherjee had said in his Budget speech in July.

Govt okays major easing of FDI norms
February 12, 2009 12:58 IST

Retail, telecom, media and a host of sectors in which foreign direct investment is restricted stand to gain from changes in FDI policy that the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared on Wednesday linking approvals to the concept of control for the first time.

The new norms were proposed by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and discussed by a Group of Ministers on February 3.

"The objective of these new guidelines is to make FDI norms simple and transparent according to DIPP," Home Minister P Chidambaram [ Images ] told reporters today when he announced the new measures.

The new measures will be implemented with prospective effect. Government sources said two Press Notes - policy documents governing FDI norms - of the 2009 series will be released in the next 10 days.

Under the new guidelines, downstream investments by an Indian company that has foreign investment but is "owned and controlled" by Indians will not be considered FDI.

"Owned" in this context will mean having a more than 50 per cent shareholding and beneficial ownership. "Controlled" means that the owners will have the power to appoint the majority of board directors and legally direct the board's actions.

"This means there is a huge opportunity for Indian-owned and -controlled companies to bring in FDI and then undertake downstream investments, without bothering about sectoral limits or restrictions," said a senior government official.

However, if the investing Indian company is foreign-owned and controlled, then its entire downstream investments will be considered indirect FDI.

But there is an exception. If the foreign-owned and controlled Indian company undertakes downstream investments in 100 per cent owned subsidiaries, the amount of indirect FDI will be equal to the percentage of foreign investment in the Indian company.

"Although the proposed policy puts to rest the debate on computing FDI in sectors in which limits apply, it also implicitly allows FDI (without control) in all sectors and industries through downstream route. For instance, FDI is currently prohibited in multi-brand retail, real estate trading, gambling, agriculture etc. If these sectors are not excluded from the proposed policy liberalisation, this is definitely a leap," said Akash Gupt, executive director, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Some Indian-owned companies in sectors like telecom may get more room to bring in additional investment, said analysts.

But insurance, in which the government is proposing to increase FDI to 49 per cent from 26 per cent, will be kept out as it is governed by an Act of Parliament, the official said.

Retail, in which FDI is only allowed in single-brand and wholesale cash and carry business, is likely to benefit to a great extent because of the new guidelines. Many foreign players currently operate through the franchisees. "If foreign investments can be routed through Indian-owned and -controlled companies, overseas retailers will definitely like to be a part of this," said a Dehi based analyst.

Businessmen in sectors like real estate, however, are not upbeat about the new FDI rules. "First, the foreign investor may not be enthusiastic about a minority interest where he cannot have control in the joint venture company or over the project for which the investment ultimately flows in," Sanjay Verma, executive MD, South Asia of international real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.

But, he added that from realtors' perspective, the change in FDI policy will help them tap foreign investments in sectors in which FDI is not currently permitted. For instance, small projects that are less 50,000 sq metres or projects that are completed are not eligible to attract FDI on Wednesday.

The new guidelines have also made government approval mandatory for transfer of ownership and control of Indian companies to overseas firms and individuals. This was done after concerns were expressed in various quarters of government on ownership of companies being transferred in sensitive sectors like telecommunications and defence to foreign entities.

For example, FDI up to 49 per cent is automatic in sectors like telecom, which has an overall limit of 74 per cent. "This moves ensures uniform norms for all sectors with an FDI cap," the official said. Companies will also have to furnish ownership details in Indian companies. In addition, inter-se agreements, which refers to agreements amongst shareholders on appointment of board of directors, voting rights or creation of voting rights disproportionate to shareholding, will have to be furnished while applying for FDI.
BS Reporter in New Delhi
Source: Business Standard

Nov 04, 2009 11:22 PM
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Chidambaram is at war against the Negroid balck Untouchables, the Aboriginal Indigenous communities as Arundhati ray article published in Out Look already exposed.

Not only Maosit Menace, zionism and global Hindutva are the best TOOLs to push for Economic Reforms for which the Hindutva forces and India Incs manipulated the mandate in last Loksabha elections polarising the Caste Hindu Votes in favour of the Zionist Dynasty Rule in the US Peripherry Economy.

Chidamabaram present in Devband and the Fatawa issued from conference like a Bolt from Blue reminds me how the Sikh genocide was done with surgical precision and how Congress was supported by RSS,

The parliamentary Nuclear drama enacted by NDA and UPA proved RSS Suppporting the Zionsist Dynasty as and in the sphere of Indo Us Nuclear deal and strategic realliance in US Israel lead.Mind you, it was RSS supported Prime Minister then who opened the doors for CIA and Mossad with breaking the ground for Free Market democracy promotion and Unprecedented Ethnic Cleansing.

RSS and UPA are the two sides of the Same Coin defending manusmriti and apartheid Rule in Southasia. latest communal falare UP is engineered by Chidamabaram, the Economist Butcher who has waged War against the Aboriginal Landscape as well as Humannscape assisted by Brahamin Marxists, Maoists, gandhia carbides, Socialist Oxides, NGOs, Intelligentsia, civil Society and Toilet Media !

Please BE Aware of this Conspiracy as we are PUSHED into Bleeding Twentieth Century once again!

The Ambedkarites are the Greatest culprits. This Afternoon, Prof. Vijoy Kumar, a BSP Activist and Ideologues from Trichur, kerala called me at home on land phone. meanwhile I have read and seen the Agendas of the Ambedkarite orgs BSP, bamcef Factions, Republican Parties. They SKIP Ambedkar and his economics and Adopt Kanshiram. they may not look beyond Kanshiram Line and FAIL to Address the Challenges in a FREE Market Democracy. They Mobilise just because to Mobilise resources. Madhu Koda is not an Exceptions. subaltern Politicians have their Cup Boards ful of SKELETONs as they have been Co OPTED by the Manusmriti Apartheid Order.

Ambedkarites fail to address the problems of Ethnonnationalism, Maosim, nationality Movement, JOB Loss, starvation and every basic economic issues. they are rather indulged in Stetchu Culture creating new Reincarnations and new GODLY System with new brahaminical Class with creamy layer emerging and killing the Constitution, democracy and Ambedkarite ideology. Excluding Aboriginal landscape and Humanscape , the Ambedkarites are fullly responsible to create SPACE and Opportunity for NGOs, RSS and maoists to create the environmemt of Ethnic Cleanisng.

Congerss adopts the 1984 line once again. I was in Meeerut during the period and had to be seized within ARSON, Genocide and ethnic Cleansing year after year. I had to smell the Blood and Flesh spilling all oevr and the AIR was polluted by Smoke.only sounds wer Cracking Biones. We have watched Sikh genocide folowed by BaBRI demolition.

Now, Chettiar Chidambaram failed to wipe out the Maoists now opens New Front and Htaches the eggs of Communalism. UPA behaves Golbal Hindutva aand RSS backed as the MUSLIMS are being used to further ESCALATE the War against terror!
Palash Biswas
Kolkata, India

Nov 04, 2009 11:22 PM
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Chidambaram is at war against the Negroid balck Untouchables, the Aboriginal Indigenous communities as Arundhati ray article published in Out Look already exposed.

Not only Maosit Menace, zionism and global Hindutva are the best TOOLs to push for Economic Reforms for which the Hindutva forces and India Incs manipulated the mandate in last Loksabha elections polarising the Caste Hindu Votes in favour of the Zionist Dynasty Rule in the US Peripherry Economy.

Chidamabaram present in Devband and the Fatawa issued from conference like a Bolt from Blue reminds me how the Sikh genocide was done with surgical precision and how Congress was supported by RSS,

The parliamentary Nuclear drama enacted by NDA and UPA proved RSS Suppporting the Zionsist Dynasty as and in the sphere of Indo Us Nuclear deal and strategic realliance in US Israel lead.Mind you, it was RSS supported Prime Minister then who opened the doors for CIA and Mossad with breaking the ground for Free Market democracy promotion and Unprecedented Ethnic Cleansing.

RSS and UPA are the two sides of the Same Coin defending manusmriti and apartheid Rule in Southasia. latest communal falare UP is engineered by Chidamabaram, the Economist Butcher who has waged War against the Aboriginal Landscape as well as Humannscape assisted by Brahamin Marxists, Maoists, gandhia carbides, Socialist Oxides, NGOs, Intelligentsia, civil Society and Toilet Media !

Please BE Aware of this Conspiracy as we are PUSHED into Bleeding Twentieth Century once again!

The Ambedkarites are the Greatest culprits. This Afternoon, Prof. Vijoy Kumar, a BSP Activist and Ideologues from Trichur, kerala called me at home on land phone. meanwhile I have read and seen the Agendas of the Ambedkarite orgs BSP, bamcef Factions, Republican Parties. They SKIP Ambedkar and his economics and Adopt Kanshiram. they may not look beyond Kanshiram Line and FAIL to Address the Challenges in a FREE Market Democracy. They Mobilise just because to Mobilise resources. Madhu Koda is not an Exceptions. subaltern Politicians have their Cup Boards ful of SKELETONs as they have been Co OPTED by the Manusmriti Apartheid Order.

Ambedkarites fail to address the problems of Ethnonnationalism, Maosim, nationality Movement, JOB Loss, starvation and every basic economic issues. they are rather indulged in Stetchu Culture creating new Reincarnations and new GODLY System with new brahaminical Class with creamy layer emerging and killing the Constitution, democracy and Ambedkarite ideology. Excluding Aboriginal landscape and Humanscape , the Ambedkarites are fullly responsible to create SPACE and Opportunity for NGOs, RSS and maoists to create the environmemt of Ethnic Cleanisng.

Congerss adopts the 1984 line once again. I was in Meeerut during the period and had to be seized within ARSON, Genocide and ethnic Cleansing year after year. I had to smell the Blood and Flesh spilling all oevr and the AIR was polluted by Smoke.only sounds wer Cracking Biones. We have watched Sikh genocide folowed by BaBRI demolition.

Now, Chettiar Chidambaram failed to wipe out the Maoists now opens New Front and Htaches the eggs of Communalism. UPA behaves Golbal Hindutva aand RSS backed as the MUSLIMS are being used to further ESCALATE the War against terror!
Palash Biswas
Kolkata, India

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Maoists Killed Saraswati to Get Support from Christians

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Maoists might have killed VHP leader Laxamananda Saraswati for securing support of the minority Christians and expand their network in Orissa's Kandhamal district, the Commission probing the murder was informed here today.

"Maoists might have killed Saraswati to get the support of Christians," former Inspector in-Charge of Kotgarh police station H K Pradhan told Justice S C Mohapatra, probing the killing of Saraswati and the violence thereafter.

Noting that the minority community in Kandhamal was not accepting Saraswati's campaign against cow slaughter and religious conversion, the field level officer said many houses were set ablaze and some churches attacked in Kotgarh area a day after the killing of Saraswati on August 23, 2008.

Though no case relating to conversion was registered at the police station, Pradhan said seven people were arrested for rioting and arson. "Land dispute between tribal Kandhas and Pana Dalits added fuel to the riot," he said.

He claimed though a riot broke out in Kotgarh area, the police were not armed as all weapons were withdrawn from the police station.

Sri Lanka Hints at LTTE-Maoist Links

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A top Sri Lankan official today said the rebel LTTE may have had links with the Maoists in India, days after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that the left wing extremists were acquiring arms from abroad.

"Going by the way they (LTTE) operate and plan things it is possible that they can have links with any terrorist organisation like the al-Qaeda and the Maoists," Rajeeva Wijesingha, secretary in the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, told PTI.

He said the links could have been there through training of operatives.

"Their (LTTE) motive is destabilisation of any country," Wijesingha said adding, slain Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran had a "visceral hatred" towards the Indian government.

In an interview to PTI on October 24, Chidambaram had said the Maoists were acquiring arms through Bangladesh, Myanmar and possibly Nepal.

HC Restrains Police from Narco Test on Ghandy

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The Delhi High Court today restrained the city police from conducting narco analysis test on top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy.

Justice Indermeet Kaur stayed the trial court's order which had on October 31 allowed conduct of the test on the 63-year-old top Maoist leader.

The court passed the order after Ghandy's counsel Rebecca M John submitted that until and unless Constitutional validity of narco test is decided by the Supreme Court, an accused cannot be forced to undergo such a test.

She submitted that the Supreme Court has been consistently denying such a test on accused in view of the pending case before it in which a Constitution bench has reserved its order.

The High Court also issued notice to the police and directed it to file a status report by December 14.

Ghandy approached the High Court contending that he cannot be forced to give evidence against himself as it violates his right under Article 20(3) of the Constitution and he had not given any consent for the test.

The trial court had on October 31 allowed the police to conduct narco test on Ghandy, arrested from the national capital on September 20, after the probe agency contended that it had not been able to elicit all information from him despite use of all scientific methods of interrogation.

The trial court had passed the order after going through the medical report submitted by AIIMS which said Ghandy was medically fit to undergo the test.

Challenging the order, Ghandy said the validity of such an invasive test is still not clear as the matter is pending before the Constitutional bench of the Supreme Court which has reserved its order on the issue.

Ghandy, who has been booked under various provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, submitted that the magistrate should have waited for the Supreme Court judgement.

Where have all the CMs gone?

CITHARA PAUL

New Delhi, Nov. 4: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee?

Silence

Nitish Kumar?

Silence

Raman Singh?

Silence

K. Rosaiah?

Silence

Shivraj Singh Chauhan?

Silence

Naveen Patnaik?

Present, Sir.

Phew!

If Manmohan Singh heaved a sigh of relief this morning, professors whose frontbenchers bunk class would have sympathised with him.

Barring Patnaik, no chief minister from the states expected to counter Maoists through tribal welfare turned up for a New Delhi meeting partly named after them. The two-day event is titled "Conference of chief ministers and state ministers (forests/tribal development) to review the implementation of forest rights and tribal development programmes".

A tribal welfare ministry official said the department had specifically requested chief ministers of Bihar, Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, all states with Naxalite presence of varying intensity, to attend the conference the Prime Minister kicked off.

"We had specifically asked chief ministers of Naxalite-affected states to attend the meeting. We hoped it would send out positive signals to the tribals and to the rest of the world. But apart from the Orissa chief minister, nobody cared to attend," the official said.

"Even states like Bengal and Tripura which write to us every other week seeking amendments to the forest rights act did not care to send their chief ministers to the meeting which discussed all issues related to the act," he added.

The Bengal chief minister was busy today reviewing plans for weekend meetings in West Midnapore, the Maoist-affected tribal belt, where Bhattacharjee will review welfare efforts and law and order.

"This needs extensive homework. Also, the chief minister wanted to be in Calcutta to keep track of the situation in Arambagh where Mamata Banerjee held a meeting today after clashes in nearby Khanakul," an official said in Calcutta.

Bengal did send forest minister Ananta Roy, backward classes welfare minister Jogesh Burman and his department secretary Nurul Haque to the Delhi meeting.

"The chief minister could not come as he had other preoccupations," Roy said.

A senior Bengal official said: "Two ministers went and that was enough to accord importance to the programme. Delhi has this habit of inviting the chief minister or the chief secretary to every event but it's not always possible for them to accede to such requests."

Earlier, too, Bhattacharjee had skipped a meeting convened by Manmohan Singh in Delhi on the Maoist problem. His secretariat had then said Bhattacharjee wasn't well.

The tribal welfare conference has assumed significance against the backdrop of the growing Maoist threat and a perception that the government was keen on a security solution before focusing on development initiatives.

Inaugurating the conference, the Prime Minister said there had been "a systemic failure" in giving tribals a stake in the modern economic process.

He said the alienation that had grown over decades was taking a dangerous turn in some parts of the country but "no sustained activity" was possible under the "shadow of the gun".

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