The government has managed Rs 21,000 crore through stake sales and buybacks in the first six months, the highest-ever first half divestment revenue for any year by a good margin, raising expectations for the rest of FY17.
Regulator probing jewellery houses for violation of collective investment scheme rules, says Shrimi Choudhary.
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.
'GST gives a huge relief to small businesses of India and West Bengal.'
Top corporates have paid more advance tax in second quarter this year.
The idea behind advancing the Budget date is to ensure that the Finance Bill is passed before the start of the financial year, on April 1, so that all central government departments get their full allocations to work with right from the first day
Make In India and the reduction in barriers of trade will potentially create a growth environment.
The assets are estimated to be worth over Rs 6,000 crore.
Scrapping Plan and non-Plan classifications necessitates the change
The disagreement between the Centre and states continued over administrative powers.
"We did not abuse RBI governors," says Chidambaram.
Cong leaders speak in two voices but final stand may be decided at a meeting headed by Rahul Gandhi next week
Asked about the Congress's opposition to the GST Bill, Santosh Kumar Gangwar said no party opposes GST outside Parliament.
A panel will examine the merits and demerits of various dates for the commencement of the financial year.
A committee headed by Patel recommended retail inflation targeting and a monetary policy committee.
The final list of bidders would be finalised only after the interested firms pay the earnest money deposit on June 30.
Officials cited the example of the Sixth Pay Commission.
The country had imported 5.5 million tonnes of pulses last year.
According to the draft, in the northeastern states the threshold is at Rs 500,000.
Huge margins, high custom duty and increasing demand among youngsters have led to exponential increase in smuggling of foreign cigarettes.
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