Ashok Gulati takes charge of the government&rsquo;s Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) at a time when farmers&rsquo; income and the role this plays in improving production is being debated, following sharp rise in food item prices. In an interview with Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Ajay Modi, he says price policy should focus on helping growers to modernise their practices and not just raising income levels.

Q&A: Ashok Gulati, Chairman, CACP

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With the chemical industry grappling with sanctions overseas and a flood of imports, M Raman, secretary in the department of chemicals and petrochemicals, talks of his charge to Anindita Dey.

Q&A: M Raman, Ministry of Chemicals

The fact is, says Philippe Welti, Swiss ambassador to India, that there is a prescribed procedure in a treaty with India to get information on illegal stashes in Swiss bank accounts, which hasn&rsquo;t been used. More, a simpler method, covering more areas, is shortly coming into force. Meanwhile, the figures widely spoken of as stashes there are pure &ldquo;nonsense&rdquo;, he tells the CNN-IBN television channel.

Q&A: Philippe Welti, Ambassador of Switzerland to India

The government appointed a 10-member Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) on March 24 to rewrite and clean-up financial sector laws to bring them in tune with the current requirements. Retired Supreme Court Judge B N Srikrishna, who chairs the Commission, tells Indivjal Dhasmana that the issue of avoiding turf war between regulators would be considered by the panel and that would include the matter of super regulator to regulate watchdogs.

Q&A: B N Srikrishna, Chairman, FSLRC

The crucial environmental clearance has given a major boost to Nuclear Power Corporation for its proposed 10,000-Mw nuclear power project at Jaitapur in Maharashtra. In an interview with Sanjay Jog, NPC CMD S K Jain spells out the state-run company&rsquo;s future strategies.

Q&A: S K Jain, CMD, Nuclear Power Corporation

Most of the states have agreed to the new draft of the GST Bill. Some want more amendments and only a few, less than five in number, still have a different outlook on this, says Asim Dasgupta, chairman of the empowered committee of state finance ministers, and finance minister of West Bengal. In a conversation with Saubhadra Chatterji, he says the states want the proposed GST Act should be flexible to address the need of imposing taxes.

Q&A; Asim Dasgupta, Empowered Committee of State Finance

That and other things, such as the Reserve Bank of India leaving it to the insurance regulator and the stock market regulator to slug it out over who should regulate unit-linked insurance schemes (Ulips), provides enough reason for the government to play the referee through a super regulator, says Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in an interview to news channel NDTV Profit.

Q&A: Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister

The multilateral trading system has been able to prevent the outbreak of a trade war, even as countries have resorted to protectionist measures after the financial slowdown for defending their own interest and prevent unemployment, World Trade Organization deputy director general Alejandro Jara says in an interaction with Nayanima Basu.

Q&A: Alejandro Jara, World Trade Organization

Pinto Norbu has been a tea planter in Assam, represented the Nobra seat from Ladakh in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly and has been a member of the National Conference, which he quit.

Q&A: Pinto Norbu

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will launch Aadhaar, the Unique Identification (UID) project, in Maharashtra&rsquo;s tribal-dominated Nanduarbar district on September 29. The state government, which will spend &#39;400 crore on the scheme, aims to cover the entire 100 million population by March 2012. Chief Minister Ashok Chavan explains the government&rsquo;s strategy to Sanjay Jog.

Q&A Ashok Chavan, Maharashtra CM

In the wake of the many shocking stories of the way the Commonwealth Games&rsquo; preparation in New Delhi has been handled, an interview with Mike Fennell, president of the CWG Federation, by Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN&rsquo;s Devil&rsquo;s Advocate programme.

Q&A: Mike Fennell, President, CWG Federation

Interview with Brazil's permanent representative to WTO

WTO has to start working and countries need to engage: Roberto Azevedo

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