S. S. Palanimanickam takes charge as MOS Finance

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the two-day All India Annual Conference of the Chief Commissioners and Directors General of Customs and Central Excise here today. The Conference is being organized by the Central Board of Excise and Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance from September 8 to 9 in the national capital.

August 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will release the draft of the 'Direct Taxes Code' here today. It will be released in the presence of Union Home Minister P.

August 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nirupama Rao took charge as India's next Foreign Secretary on Saturday. She assumed charge from incumbent Shiv Shankar Menon.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Friday said it has fined private carrier Kingfisher Airlines Rs.26.46 crore for delay in remittance of tax deducted at source (TDS). Minister of State for Finance S.S.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress leader Murli Deora took charge as the union minister for petroleum and natural gas Friday morning and announced a new scheme for distribution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in villages. When asked about auto fuel deregualtion, Deora told reporters that the matter was under consideration and no time frame had been set.

May 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday sprung a major surprise in allocating portfolios Friday by naming Anand Sharma as the cabinet minister in charge of commerce and industry, shifting out Kamal Nath, who held the portfolio for the whole of the tenure of his previous cabinet. Kamal Nath has been given the road transport and highways portfolio, which was earlier overseen by T.R.

May 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The DMK, the third largest party in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), Thursday got three key portfolios of communications and information technology, textiles, and chemicals and fertilizers. DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's new government took shape Wednesday with a 78-member council of ministers, including 33 cabinet ministers and 45 ministers of state, being named after three days of intense negotiations. The new government's 78-strong council of ministers makes place for 19 allies of the second United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government - seven each from the DMK and the Trinamool Congress, three from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and one each from the Muslim League and the National Conference.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI -; Pranab Mukherjee on Monday assumed his charge as the new Finance Minister. Mukherjee was welcomed by the Finance Secretary, Revenue Secretary, Expenditure Secretary, Disinvestment Secretary, CEA, Chairman, CBDT and Chairman, CBEC.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee formally assumed charge of his portfolio - an office he returns to after a quarter of a century - Monday and immediately got down to business with a meeting with top officials on the preparation of the national budget. "Immediately after assuming charge, Mukherjee had a series of meetings with all senior officers of the ministry and reviewed the status of various programmes and issues related to all departments of the ministry," said an official statement.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - P. Chidambaram on Monday took over as the Home Minister for the second time.

April 27th, 2009 MUMBAI - E.K. Bharat Bhushan, who currently serves as joint secretary and financial adviser in the civil aviation ministry, has assumed charge as the interim chairman and managing director of the state-run National Civil Aviation Co of India Ltd (NACIL).

April 7th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju and eight others. The 76-page charge sheet was filed before the special court here under various sections of Indian Penal Code for cheating and forgery.

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.

December 23rd, 2008 NEW DELHI - Winsome Textile Industries chairman Satish Bagrodia Wednesday formally took charge as the president of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, succeeding L.K. Malhotra. 'The immediate challenge for the industry is to rekindle business sentiment by creating an environment conducive to growth,' Bagrodia told reporters.