Rahul Khullar is new commerce secretary

October 2nd, 2009 TORONTO - India and Canada have agreed to work on a time-bound action plan to push their annual trade from $4.6 billion to higher levels. To boost their economic partnership, the two sides discussed civilian nuclear cooperation, investment promotion and protection, high-level visits between the two countries, and India-Canada CEO roundtable meetings.

September 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistan's Commerce Secretary Suleman Ghani has said that trade between India and Pakistan can go up to 10 billion dollars per annum in 5-6 years if both the countries resume their dialogue. "If everything goes right then once we resume dialogue, it should not take more than 5-6 years for trade to reach 10 billion dollars from the current 2 billion dollars," The News quoted Ghani as saying.

September 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Trade between India and Pakistan can go up to $10 billion a year in 5-6 years if the countries resume their dialogue and the overall political environment improves, Pakistan's Commerce Secretary Suleman Ghani said here Saturday. "If everything goes right then once we resume dialogue, it should not take more than 5-6 years for the trade between two countries to reach $10 billion from the current $2 billion, Ghani told reporters on the sidelines of PHD Chamber conference.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Trade ministers of nearly 40 countries will meet over two days here from Thursday to try and draw a roadmap that can put the derailed Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations back on track. India's Commerce Minister Anand Sharma will host the meet, which will include US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, Brazilian Foreign Trade Minister Celso Amorim and the director general of the 153-member World Trade Organisation (WTO), Pascal Lamy.

August 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and Nepal on Saturday included a new trade treaty and agreement to control unauthorized trade, particularly from a third country. The treaty is aimed at widening the bilateral economic engagements.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Tuesday appointed West Bengal Power Secretary Sunil Mitra as the new disinvestment secretary. "The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of Sunil Mitra, as secretary in the department of disinvestment, ministry of finance," an official statement said Tuesday.

May 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The face of the victorious Congress election campaign, General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has maintained that he prefers to do one thing at a time. "I want to work for the Congress party because I believe in doing one thing at a time.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Friday said that Congress General Secretary, who is being credited for party's good performance in Uttar Pradesh, is not keen on joining the UPA Government as Cabinet minister.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - As the buzz about whether he would become a minister intensified Friday, Rahul Gandhi categorically said his first job was to strengthen the Congress party. 'Elections come and go.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi cast his vote along with other voters in the fourth round of a general election on Thursday. Accompanied by security guards, Rahul came to the polling booth, and cast his vote even as media persons tried to catch a glimpse of the dimpled leader.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Expressing confidence that his party would win the elections, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) 'was finished' and existed 'only in the mind'. 'The NDA is finished and has lost its fight.

April 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - It will be young Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's first visit to Sikkim and even the party's rivals are rolling out the red carpet. Luizinho Faleiro, the Congress in-charge for Sikkim, Tuesday said Rahul Gandhi was likely to campaign for the party in state capital Gangtok April 25.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday disclosed that he wanted Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the son of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, to be a minister in the cabinet, but Rahul refused. 'I always wanted Rahul Gandhi to be a minister, but he refused,' Manmohan Singh told reporters on the sidelines of a defence investiture function at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With Varun Gandhi's alleged communal tirade fetching him unprecedented publicity, some leaders of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can't stop comparing him with his more famous cousin Rahul Gandhi. 'Let's send the hard-hitting Varun after Rahul,' quipped one at the party office, even though the BJP has officially distanced itself from Varun's alleged hate speech against Muslims in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Rahul Khullar, a 1975-batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) with the union territory cadre, has been named the next secretary in the Department of Disinvestment. He takes charge from Vivek Mehrotra, a 1974-batch IAS officer with Haryana cadre, who has been moved as secretary in the ministry of minority affairs, an official statement said Monday.