Budget announcements will come right before five states, with population of around 250 million, go to polls.
Work in mandis across UP and in northern India which till Tuesday, witnessed heavy arrivals of newly harvested paddy, saw a steep decline.
The focus is likely to be on consolidation and improvement of existing rural-centric programmes to ensure their completion ahead of the next general elections in 2019, rather than announcement of new schemes. Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Arup Roychoudhury report.
As Tata and DoCoMo look for out-of-court settlement, here's a blow-by-blow account of the long legal tussle
Which were the five businesses Ratan Tata had great hopes for, but his successor failed to deliver?
Mistry is not the first Tata bigwig to be ousted and Tata is not the only big name which saw a doyen or two leave
One of the the biggest tax reforms since Independence, GST will create a national market for goods and services
Of the six chairmen that Tata group has had in its 148 years, the longest serving was Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy
BMS, BKS and SJM are trying to forge common cause with outfits on the other side of the ideological divide over the government's policies they are not in agreement with.
Sebi to fix promoters' side deals with PE investors
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian says that he hopes GDP growth will be at the upper end of the 7-7.5 per cent range.
The NITI Aayog has big plans for Indian sport.
The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget.
Rains have been 5% below normal so far, but Met department sticks to its forecast
The Unified Payment Interface could propel banking into a new era
Securing the GDP estimates a month in advance would be a challenge and the government should take the Central Statistics Office on board before embarking on the new schedule for Budget presentation
investors will look to the new governor to continue the banking sector clean-up with the same urgency as Mr Rajan, who was targeting fully cleaned-up and provisioned balance sheets by March 2017
The textiles sector is India's largest organised employer and critical for the prime minister's dream of creating jobs
The challenge for Indian software is clear. A good part of its bread and butter business - writing code and maintaining software systems - is being automated, reducing revenue streams and work for lower level employees
Skymet said September would be much better and it expects it to end at 111 per cent of the LPA
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances