New Delhi has reached out to neighbours like seldom before while singling Islamabad for criticism at international forums.
The Congress, out of power in UP for 27 years is making a big pitch to bounce back, on a cocktail of caste politics and promises of agriculture debt waiver worth Rs 49,000 crore and power rate reduction for farmers hit by high input costs and diminishing returns., reports Amit Agnihotri.
Assets worth only Rs 4,000 cr declared till mid-August; govt expects pick-up in last 2 weeks
Ministers will travel to different countries across the world, mostly where no ministerial visits have taken place in the last 20 to 25 years, to establish 'sampark' (contact) and 'samvad' (communication).
The seats identified are from Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and the Northeast.
'I have promised that I will eliminate the problem within four weeks.' 'We know -- in fact everybody in Punjab knows -- who are the people who control the drugs supply and trade.' 'We need to tackle them.'
The central government has drafted a law to restrict wombs for hire, and there is much to be said on all sides.
Middle class constituted about 49 per cent of the total tax payees in financial year 2011-12
Petroleum being out of the goods and services tax initially will create some anomaly as tax credit on some of the inputs to oil industry may not be given, said revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia.
The list of exempted goods from central excise duty has shrunk from 400 items in 2011-12 to 300 now.
Government strategists are trying to ensure that the requisite 16 of the 31 states ratify the Bill by the end of this month
Make In India and the reduction in barriers of trade will potentially create a growth environment.
States are apprehensive of losing their rights to raise revenue during emergencies.
The states have unanimously pitched for sole administrative powers to carry out assessment, scrutiny and enforcement for entities up to an annual turnover of Rs 1.5 crore.
Jaitley remained steadfast in not caving in to sustained Opposition pressure.
For the government to meet its GST roll-out deadline of April 1, 2017, the states will have to ratify the Bill before Parliament's winter session, starting November.
The Congress, however, said it wanted to see the final print on the wording of the dispute resolution mechanism before committing its support to the Bill
Breaking a long tradition, the PMO has ensured that specific divisions in each ministry are allocated to junior ministers.
Top Congress sources said they would not hold up the Bill.
The disagreement between the Centre and states continued over administrative powers.
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