Pulok Chatterjee

• 'Open to talks with like-minded parties to keep BJP at bay': Ahmed Patel to NDTV

  As top Congress leaders speak of taking or giving support to a Third Front after the election results, Ahmed Patel, the Congress party's key strategist and Sonia Gandhi's political secretary told NDTV that the Congress is open to such a possibility if it means keeping the BJP out of power.

• Sanjaya Baru's book completely baseless and mischievous: Prime Minister's Office

  The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) today hit out at Sanjaya Baru, former media advisor, saying his book contending that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was undermined by Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi smacks of "fiction" and is a "coloured" view and rubbished as "baseless and mischievous" claims that its files were seen by her.

• Vijay Mallya meets Ashwani Kumar

  As the squeeze tightened over grounded Kingfisher Airlines to pay up the dues of the government, lessors and service providers, its promoter Vijay Mallya today met Law Minister Ashwani Kumar apparently to discuss ways to deal with the situation.

• 48 power companies sign fuel pacts with Coal India

  Only 48 power producers have inked fuel supply pacts with state-run Coal India so far, even as the second deadline set by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) for signing these agreements ended last week.

• PMO asks power firms to sign fuel supply pacts within a month

  The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) today set a one-month deadline for the public sector power companies, including NTPC, to sign fuel supply pacts with Coal India (CIL) failing which FSAs would be withdrawn.

• PMO to discuss new coal block allocation policy on October 5

  Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Pulok Chatterjee, has called for a meeting with power and coal secretaries on October 5. The issues on the table would be the progress made by the inter-ministerial group (IMG) on coal block deallocations and price pooling of coal, among other things.

• India won’t have much coal by 13th Plan: Sushil Kumar Shinde

  In an interview with NDTV Profit, Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde talks about the problems the country’s power sector is facing.

• PM's address to Finance Ministry officials: Full Text

  Here is a brief of his address to the officials:

• Market cues: Asian markets weak, India budget and more

  Asian markets traded flat to negative on Wednesday tracking a similar trend in US markets overnight.

• Shinde expects 'favourable' outcome from PMO panel on power

  Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today said that he expects a "favourable" outcome of the meeting of the PMO and various secretaries on addressing the issues impacting growth in the power sector.

• PSUs to invest Rs 1.40 lakh crore next year; PM wants more

  17 top PSUs will invest a whopping Rs 1,40,000 crore next year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today.