Planning Commission Committee

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  Google Has Undermined Competition, South Korean Antitrust Chief Says

  Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) chief the agency believes US search giant Google has undermined competition, adding that the agency plans to present a case to its review committee this year.

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  Qatar Confirms Plan To Bid For 2032 Olympics

  Qatar confirmed that it has begun a dialogue with the International Olympic Committee's Future Host Commission over hosting the 2032 games.

• Regulators to Seek Penalty on Toshiba Over Accounting Irregularities: Report

  Japan's financial watchdog plans to seek a financial penalty on Toshiba Corp, currently being investigated by an independent committee over accounting irregularities, the Nikkei reported on Saturday.

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  Opinion: Making India An Education Hub: What the Government Needs to Do

  The Modi government must make it a priority to reposition India as a country of academic excellence, says NK Singh.

• Kerala Congress Leader Decries Move to Scrap Planning Commission

  Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee President V M Sudheeran on Monday flayed the Narendra Modi government's move to scrap the Planning Commission and bring in an alternative body in its place.

• New Poverty Line: Rs 32 Per Day in Villages, Rs 47 in Cities

  A panel headed by former RBI governor C Rangarajan has dismissed the Tendulkar Committee report on estimating poverty and said that the number of poor in India was much higher in 2011-12 at 29.5 per cent of the population, which means that three out of 10 persons are poor.

• Rangarajan Panel Submits Report on Poverty to Planning Commission

  C Rangarajan, former chief of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC), has submitted a report on Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty to Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh.

• Rangarajan Panel Submits Report on Poverty to Planning Commission

  C Rangarajan, former chief of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC), has submitted a report on Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty to Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh.

• Planning Commission prepares Cabinet note on coal for captive power plants

  The note for consideration of the Cabinet Committee on Investment suggests that the Coal Ministry sign initial pacts as envisaged to provide coal to consumers, including CPPs, which cannot be covered with letters of assurances or fuel supply agreements, Coal Ministry sources said.

• Deloitte submits draft report on Coal India restructuring: report

  The Planning Commission and other high-level panels such as the Expert Committee on Road Map for Coal Sector Reforms, also known as the T L Shankar Committee, had recommended restructuring CIL in view of the rapidly increasing demand for coal, the need to enhance production and to make the sector competitive

• Non-adherence to KG-D6 plan be construed as default: Parliamentary panel

  The committee, which submitted its recommendations last month, also suggested that the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry should explore all possible options and take corrective measures to increase the gas production from the KG-D6 block as observed in the study commissioned by DGH.

• Prime Minister 'absolutely right' in allocating coal mine to Hindalco: Montek

  Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday termed the decision to allot Talabira-II coal mine to Hindalco by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as "absolutely right" and said investigating agencies need to develop a "civilised approach" to the business of investigation.

• Finance Ministry sends Rajan report to Planning Commission for 'necessary action': report

  Sources said the letter has been received from the Finance Ministry and the Commission will take a view on the recommendations of the Rajan Committee.

• Allegations of favouring Reliance Industries baseless: Oil Minister

  Moily thrashed CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta's allegations of favouring RIL as "totally false and baseless" and said the proposed increase in natural gas price was being done "strictly in line with the formula proposed by Prime Minister appointed panel headed by his economic adviser C Rangarajan."

• Montek's arguement: Why Indian economy will see a turnaround

  Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia believes that 2013-14 will be the "turnaround year" for India's economy.