The Niti Aayog is preparing 15-year vision document that will replace the Five-Year Plan from the next financial year
Chetan Ghate, Pami Dua and Ravindra Dholakia have been appointed for 4 years
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
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday approved the biggest tax reform since Independence.
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.
Seven months down the line, not much progress has been made, except that the scheme is still being fine-tuned.
Lack of political consensus on economic reforms a key concern.
With EU, it is part of the FTA that we will need to negotiate.
Cong leaders speak in two voices but final stand may be decided at a meeting headed by Rahul Gandhi next week
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.
Gujarat and Jharkhand are most favourably placed in terms of smaller share of public sector employees and lower liability on pension, wages and salaries.
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.
'Now, we have a minimum pension of Rs 1,000 annually.'
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