R Gopalan

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• Rupee free-fall: Kaushik Basu, R Gopalan, others meeting in Finance Ministry

  Top government officials are meeting at the Finance Ministry to discuss the depreciation in the Indian Rupee.

• Current account deficit not a problem; steps being taken: R Gopalan

  Dismissing concerns over high current account deficit, India said it was not a major problem and the government has already initiated steps to contain it.

• Fresh push to reforms soon, says R. Gopalan

  Economic affairs secretary R Gopalan tells NDTV what the government plans to do to counter the charges of policy paralysis.

• Inter-Ministerial group to examine Vodafone's dispute notice

  "The government will form an Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) soon to examine the notice of Vodafone," a senior finance official said.

• Eurozone needs package to tackle debt crisis: Pranab

  "The eurozone will have to come out with a package to resolve its sovereign debt problem," said.

• Government expecting 'good' dividend from PSUs: R Gopalan

  The finance ministry has already discussed the issue with PSUs like Sail, Nalco, ONGC, IOC, Oil India, etc.

• Government seeks higher dividend, PSUs non-committal

  Pressed hard for funds, the finance ministry held a meeting of cash-rich PSUs to seek higher dividends but failed to obtain firm commitments from state-owned blue-chip companies. Many heads of the large public sector undertakings (PSUs) told government that they would prefer to maintain dividends at the previous year's level, though some expressed ...

• 'QFIs in equities will boost long-term investment'

  R Gopalan described the latest step as a way of creating an "enabling environment for Qualified Foreign Investors (QFIs) to come into the market and take part in equity."

• Govt may relook at deficit target in mid-year review: R Gopalan

  The government is likely to review its fiscal deficit target as the economic slowdown has thrown a challenge for the government to increase revenues and cut expenditure, said Economic Affairs Secretary R Gopalan. In 2010-11, the fiscal deficit came down to 4.7 per cent of GDP. Dr C Rangarajan, the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council t...