Demonetisation is the biggest reason for the rise in preference for small savings.
The finance minister has labelled about 65 per cent of the fuel excise revenue as cess, including the restructured road and infrastructure cess
Higher oil prices, while not having an impact on Centre's revenues due to fixed tax rate, are pushing up states' sales tax revenue.
Right now the challenge before the government is to double the speed of construction in order to complete the remaining 6.6 million houses before March 2019.
The number of management colleges has dropped from 3,609 in 2014-15 to 3,264 in 2017-18.
The highest number of jobs were created in the age group of 18-21 at 1.29 million, followed by 22-25 years of age at 1.12 million during these seven months.
With 103 members belonging to the BJP, the Karnataka assembly will witness a balance it has never seen.
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Despite the growing clamour from the central government on India turning digital, and banks requesting direct bank account transfer, the state government decided to hand over cheques to the farmers, which can be immediately converted into cash.
T C A Anant, former chief statistician to the government, will soon be heading a panel to decide whether the monthly payroll data released by EPFO, ESIC and PFRDA could replace the quarterly enterprises-based survey on job creation by the labour bureau, the prime minister's office decided last week.
The RBI fell short of pumping Rs 150 billion into the economy at the beginning of 2018-2019.
'The current crisis is a result of a clash between a coercive attempt by the government to justify demonetisation and rising digital transactions against the market and the economy fighting the unexpected pressure from atop.'
Many PSBs are in the process of rationalisation of ATMs
Third of faculty positions vacant. One per cent seats empty. New institutes lag in infrastructure, research.
Seven students were made international offers.
UIDAI has asked police to investigate, it was not fully convinced about nature of the incident
'Even if something appears to be wrong, we can always request the government and Parliament to make amends.'
Government gives 60 institutes freedom to fix courses, collaborate with foreign peers.
Vikram Kothari, managing director of Rotomac Pens, is now fighting a battle that might be difficult to win.
The government would be setting up a National Health Protection Council, National Governance Board and National Health Agency before roll-out of the scheme on August 15.
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