Ashok Chawla appointed on State Bank board

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tax rates were not raised in the 2009-10 budget proposals as economic conditions remained difficult while tax relief for individuals would help boost consumption, Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla said here Monday. The finance minister has left unchanged the excise and customs duty cuts that were announced following the global economic meltdown because "the time is not yet right to raise any tax rate.

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Tuesday appointed Economic Affairs Secretary Ashok Chawla as the new finance secretary and H.S. Brahma as power secretary.

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Tuesday appointed Economic Affairs Secretary Ashok Chawla as the new finance secretary and H.S. Brahma as power secretary.

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Tuesday appointed Economic Affairs Secretary Ashok Chawla as the new finance secretary and H.S. Brahma as power secretary.

May 6th, 2009 Hagel named to Deutsche Bank advisory boardNEW YORK — Deutsche Bank said Wednesday it appointed former U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel to its Americas advisory board.

April 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Election Commissioner Navin Chawla took over as the Chief Election Commissioner today, succeeding N. Gopalaswami who retired on Monday after serving in the Commission for five years.

April 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Election Commissioner Navin Chawla will take over as the Chief Election Commissioner today as N. Gopalaswami demits office.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Election Commissioner Navin Chawla will take over as the next Chief Election Commissioner today. Chawla, who will succeed incumbent N Gopalaswami, will hold charge till July 29, 2010.

April 10th, 2009 JAMMU - Security arrangements in Jammu and Kashmir for the Lok Sabha elections are satisfactory, Election Commissioner Naveen Chawla said here Friday. Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir last year were a historical landmark and the coming Lok Sabha polls would add a new chapter to it, he said.

March 23rd, 2009 GUWAHATI - Election Commissioner Naveen Chawla will arrive here on a two-day visit today to review poll preparedness for the coming Lok Sabha polls. Chawla will be accompanied by two Deputy Election Commissioners Dr Alok Shukla and J P Prakash.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said Navin Chawla's appointment as the next chief election commissioner was 'unfortunate' and it was an 'affront to Indian democracy'. 'The appointment (Chawla) is an affront to the Indian democracy.

February 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With the economic crisis taking a toll on the Indian economy, the government plans to borrow Rs.460 billion (about $9.45 billion) by late March from the market, a senior finance ministry official said Tuesday. 'We already had discussions with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

January 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Election Commissioner Navin Chawla Saturday said he had no intention of resigning following Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami's move to remove him on grounds that he was partisan.

January 30th, 2009 LONDON - India's Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla said Saturday developed countries need to 'do more' to help stem the spreading global economic slide. 'The downturn has now begun to spread from the financial to the real sector,' Chawla warned ahead of a key meeting Sunday of the deputies of treasuries and central banks from the Group of 20 (G20) countries.

January 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian economy is now projected to grow between 7 and 7.5 percent in the current fiscal, a top official said here Saturday. 'With the presence of strong domestic demand stimulus, India is expected to maintain a strong pace of economic growth despite continuation of global recession,' Ashok Chawla, secretary of the department of economic affairs, said in his inaugural address at the third India China Financial Dialogue.