The economy could return to 8% growth by the end of 2017-2018, says Arvind Panagariya, vice-chairman NITI Aayog.
Through this mobile application, the handset will be used for authenticating biometrics of customers making Aadhaar enabled payment.
Revised draft model Bill clearly says an agriculturist for the purpose of agriculture won't be liable for registration under GST.
A senior finance ministry source said making the use of debit cards and e-wallets compulsory across the board is legally untenable, but banks have been asked to insist their account holders use these instruments
Experts claim impact of breather limited as most hybrid vegetable seeds are sold by private companies.
Budget announcements will come right before five states, with population of around 250 million, go to polls.
While the government's demonetisation move is aimed at curbing under-invoicing, the worry was that retailers would de-stock in the short term, impacting sales.
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.
According to a source close to the development, the government is set to come out with a notification in this regard by the end of this week.
Government considering proposal to allow conversion of used cooking oil into biodiesel, say Shine Jacob and Shreya Jai.
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.
Dharmendra Pradhan lays bare the next course of action for his ministry and says RIL will have to pay the same price at which it produced the volumes.
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 scheme would cover incidents like robbery and dacoity.
The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget.
A comparison shows that for Delhi to Mumbai air travel, the lowest airfare price is in the range of Rs 2,755, while the surged price for second-AC comes at Rs 4,104, a 42 per cent increase from the current train fares
Rains have been 5% below normal so far, but Met department sticks to its forecast
The committee said whatever benefit RIL received in terms of the migrated gas is liable to be returned to the government.
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