Creation of 115 million non-farm jobs over next decade critical to sustaining growth, says McKinsey
Taxes on health, excluding medicines, could rise from 8.8 per cent currently, to around 13.6 per cent - an increase of 4.8 per cent.
Moody's expects tax to be lower than the multitude of taxes such as sales tax, excise duties, local taxes, and value-added taxes the automobile sector currently pays
Seven months down the line, not much progress has been made, except that the scheme is still being fine-tuned.
Political scientist Vinay Sitapati explores the role played by the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao in steering the reforms through in his new book Half Lion.
West Bengal and Maharashtra, despite having fewer public sector employees, are likely to face a higher burden of salaries and pensions.
The survey covered 47,535 households in rural areas and 36,065 households in urban areas.
Higher interest rates in the US do not necessarily coincide with capital outflows.
The Finance Commission has substantially increased the allocation of funds to panchayats, but a large part of it is apportioned by state governments.
This time there has been a rather peculiar criticism of the latest GDP numbers.
Small and medium enterprises have been struggling to raise bank credit even as they have been powering India's manufacturing growth in recent years.
For debt-laden companies, asset sales is an obvious solution.
Not all NPAs are treated as wilful defaulters.
Agricultural incomes can be taxed without hurting farmers, as a substantial section - the small and marginal ones - will remain outside the tax net simply because their incomes are likely to be below the basic exemption limit of Rs 250,000 per annum that is extended to all taxpayers in India, finds out Ishan Bakshi.
Cases across the country against defaulters who owe over Rs 1 crore each, reveal CIBIL data.
Ishan Bakshi studies the Budgets of six states, their expenditure priorities and outlays to understand the trend.
The greatest disconnect lies in the estimates of industrial growth.
A new paper by blames 'jobs deficit' for the decline in female labour force.
He is widely admired for maintaining an almost military like discipline and is not known to smoke or drink
Fresh investments are constrained by tepid demand.
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