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English Release 17-June 2013
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- Presidents Secretariat
- Press Communique
- Min of Commerce & Industry
- India’s Foreign Trade: May, 2013
- Min of Comm. & Information Technology
- Launch of Logistics Post Air Service
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TRAI Reduces National Roaming Tariff Ceilings, Permits Customised Tariffs Through Special Tariff Vouchers for National Roamers and Mandates Free National Roaming Plans
- Min of Defence
- IAF on Relief Rescue Mission in Aid of Flash Floods Affected Areas
- Ministry of Finance
- Auction for Sale (Re-Issue) of Government Stock
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Increased Domestic Production of Oil, Coal & Restraining Gold Consumption can Contain CAD; India Continues to Remain a Desired Destination for FDI and FII – P. Chidambaram
- Min of Mines
- Green Venture By NALCO - Commissioning of 2nd Wind Power Project Starts
- Min of Petroleum & Natural Gas
- Under-Recovery on Diesel effective 16.6.2013 increases sharply to Rs 6.31 per litre
- Ministry of Railways
- Railway Revenue Earnings up by 12.73 per cent during April - May 2013
- Railways to Launch Ticket Booking through Non-Internet based Mobile Phones with Effect from 1st July 2013
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Ministry of Environment and Forests29-May, 2009 18:2 IST
| Bio Data of Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State
of Environment and Forests (Independent Charge)
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Shri Jairam Ramesh is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha. He was also the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry as well as the Minister of State for Power in the last Congress Party – led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government.
Shri Jairam has earlier been Advisor to the Finance Minister during 1996-98, Deputy Chairman Planning Commission during 1992-94 and to the Prime Minister in 1991. He has served in the Planning Commission, Ministry of Industry and other economic departments of the Central Government. He has been entrusted with numerous special assignments like, for reorganizing India’s international trade agencies in 1990 and for implementing the technology missions during 1987-89, for reorganizing the CSIR in 1986 and for analyzing energy policy during 1983-85. He was also invited to join the official delegation to the WTO meeting in Seattle in 1999. He studied public management at Carnegie Mellon University during 1975-77, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) technology policy, economics, engineering and management as part of the newly –established inter-disciplinary Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), Mumbai in 1975. In 2001, IIT Bombay presented him with the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
He has authored a number of key government reports in area as diverse as energy, technology, capital goods, industrial policy and telecom. He has been a founding member of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad promoted by the Wharton School, London Business School, and Kellogg School of Management and is a member of the International Council of the New York-based Asia Society. His column on economics and public policy called ‘Kautilya’ in The Times of India is very popular. He is also the author of the book ‘Making Sense of Chindia’, a book that describes the forces of globalisation and liberalization, and is an assessment of international relations in today’s world.
Shri Jairam has also anchored a number of popular television programmes on business and the economy including Business Breakfast and Crossfire. Shri Jairam Ramesh was born on 9 April 1954 at Chikmagalur in Karnataka.
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(Release ID :48930)
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