The Federal Open Market Committee unanimously voted to set the new target range for the federal funds rate at 0.25% to 0.5%, up from zero to 0.25%
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Fed hikes interest rate by 0.25%, ends zero-rate era (16-12-2015)
Why Kerala is like Maldives and Uttar Pradesh, Pakistan (16-12-2015)
Three findings regarding India’s states using the Human Development Index methodology
India resists advanced nations’ bid to move away from Doha agenda (16-12-2015)
Commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman said nations should resist the temptation to overload the WTO agenda
New bilateral investment treaty text gets approval (16-12-2015)
The revised version will be used for the negotiation of existing and future BITs in economic agreements
Fresh twist to RIL-ONGC KG gas face-off (16-12-2015)
Government appoints committee under former Delhi high court chief justice A.P. Shah to probe dispute
TMC, Congress bonhomie fuels alliance rumours (16-12-2015)
With Bengal elections looming large, TMC’s backing of Congress leaders in graft case is seen as a precursor to a tie-up
Maharashtra announces Rs10,512 crore aid for farmers hit by drought (16-12-2015)
Of the `10,512 crore, `7,412 crore will be direct financial assistance to cotton and soybean farmers in Vidarbha and Marathwada
We have hit ‘peak carbon’ (16-12-2015)
Three major factors—technological, economic and political— will conspire to hold down carbon emissions in the decades ahead
The man who imagined community (16-12-2015)
Benedict Anderson’s ‘imagined community’ is imagined, not imaginary; and as a community, it brings people together
The limits of control in Parliament (16-12-2015)
India’s opposition has little procedural room to do anything other than exactly what it is doing now