Much depends on how the liquidity situation evolves over the coming months, with greater clarity expected from the next monetary policy meeting scheduled for December 7.
Lens on rural transactions. Only 38% of branches of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) are in rural areas
We are certainly for digitisation. I do not have opinion about demonetisation. I still don't, says Bill Gates.
Instructions from the Union rural development ministry to the state officials on the WhatsApp group show that the chat was also used as an off-record avenue for the Union government to pass instructions, which it could not have done through formal channels, keeping the law in mind.
Centre's off-the-record instructions through WhatsApp and a squeeze on funds brought the rural work programme to collapse after a roaring first half of the year.
India tried to block the project at the fund's board meeting in South Korea, but later agreed to approve it with new condition, reports Nitin Sethi.
Reducing it to 1.3% would lead to savings of Rs 70,000 crore over 5 years
100 square kilometre of Panna Tiger Reserve could go under water, writes Nitin Sethi.
The church bells don't toll in Churachandpur any more. The hill district in Manipur has been in mourning for more than a year.
'We cannot let this country be a place where the poor pay to shit.' 'That is inhuman and unacceptable.'
The proposed changes, as per the draft, could continue some of the existing conflict between wildlife protection regulations with the implementation of Forest Rights Act, 2006, which gives rights to tribals in all kinds of traditional forest lands -- including the wildlife zones, such as national parks. The new proposed law, just as the original one from 1972, does not explicitly recognise these rights in all wildlife areas.
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.
CAF Bill's fate to be decided on Monday
Urban ministry changes rule before public consultation by environment ministry
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.
In its final order, the environment ministry had concluded that the upfront payment of Rs 200 crore as Environment Restoration Fund for violations and damage done was not permitted under the Environment Protection Act. Consequent to this order, the penalty that could be imposed on any confirmation of violation in the future is a maximum of Rs 1 lakh.
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