Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's customary address to the joining sitting of Parliament on the first day of the budget session.
The US economy added 160,000 jobs in April, extending the longest streak of private-sector job growth on record.
Sensex in green, JSW climbs higher.
Relax fiscal consolidation, boost public capex and reduce cost of finance, industry tells Centre
The time the companies have to get ready for GST is 6 to 12 months.
A year ago, India's #MeToo movement witnessed women across India speak up against sexual harassment. Nikita Puri assesses what, if anything, has changed.
Kerala has seen one of the worst floods in its history during this monsoon. From August 8 to 20, nearly 223 people have lost their lives, 33 are missing and around 1.2 million individuals from 3,02,441 families are in 3,941 relief camps. Initial losses are estimated to be around Rs 200 billion (Rs 20,000 crore). With the rescue measures in its last leg, the Kerala government is looking at raising funds to rebuild the state. In an interaction with Gireesh Babu and T E Narasimhan, Kerala Finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac says he has a three-pronged strategy to raise funds. Edited Excerpts.
Given that there are hundreds of players in the shadow banking space, it's hard to make a credible estimate of potential NPAs. That creates more scope for panic, says Devangshu Datta.
NITI Aayog vice chairperson Rajiv Kumar tells Indivjal Dhasmana that additional funds could be generated through divestment, and that the fiscal deficit should be widened while focusing on the revenue deficit.
How China's all powerful Communist party bungled the response to the coronavirus crisis.
Duvvuri Subbarao recounts how his tensions with P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee, then finance ministers, over monetary policy spilled over into other issues in the central bank in this excerpt from Who Moved My Interest Rate?, his memoir of his term as Reserve Bank of India governor.
The central bank had revised its inflation forecast significantly downward in the last policy
Saeed, has been moved to an unknown location.
Despite a temporary relief, foreign investors still see the sword of double-taxation hanging above their hard earned returns.
No longer an in-house task; hiring legal eagles is now becoming norm for M&As, fundraising
Facebook chief said he is getting to the bottom of exactly what the UK firm did, and telling everyone who may have been affected.
MCX has been struggling to raise funds with a rights issue, ending on Thursday.
'We all wanted a strong Centre with a decisive mandate from the people, to allow them to take bold decisions.'
Shapoorji, Kalpataru, Godrej pursuing Rs 60,000 crore opportunity in the region
While some trade union leaders have welcomed the move, industry has opposed it, fearing an increase in its wage bill
The flood-ravaged Srinagar city has been divided into three zones to expedite the cleaning up and sanitation operations, an official spokesman said on Tuesday.
The defence ministry has signed off on a national security plan that it cannot fund. Ajai Shukla reports
As against an annual average growth of 10-11 per cent envisaged for the industry during the period, the actual annual average growth stood at 7.2 per cent during the plan period.
Chaos in Parliament threw a spanner in the government's efforts to revive the economy and kick-start reforms.
A total of 16 bills, including the GST Bill, Lokpal (Amendment) Bill, Factories (Amendment) Bill and the Anti-Hijacking Bill are pending in Parliament -- five in Lok Sabha and 11 in the Rajya Sabha.
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Reliance, Birla Group, Airtel eye small finance banks.
England, who have won both the one-day and Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka, play a two-day practice match in Colombo before heading to Galle which hosts the first of the three Test matches from November 6.
All evidence suggests that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates soon.
Sebi has time and again voiced its concerns over higher agents' fees.
The government has given up plans to reconvene a parliament session to secure approval for a common goods and services tax.
The Opposition said that the government was 'bull-dozing'.
Indian economy about to take-off
The 58-year-old businessman, who is also the son-in-law of former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna, has been missing since Monday evening from Mangaluru.
The Gomti Riverfront Development project, the Agra-Lucknow Expressway, the Jai Prakash Narayan International Centre and the efforts towards the beautification of Old Lucknow are some of Akhilesh Yadav's initiatives that are the subject of investigation.
'What if Kim is alive as the latest reappearance suggests, but unable to rule?' 'Will his sister be installed as the leader to continue with the Kims's hereditary dynasty that began with the present ruler's grandfather?' asks Dr Rajaram Panda.
A glance back at some of the important ups and down Indian Inc faced in 2018.
Markets closed in the red on domestic worries.
Companies think they are too big to bow before regulators.
It emerges that not only does the CIDR project fails the test of fairness, justness and reasonableness besides the test of not being fanciful, oppressive or arbitrary; it also fails the test of Arthashastra, Hadith and the Bible.
India will need an annual investment of Rs 15 trillion in infrastructure over the next five years, says Chandrajit Banerjee, DG, CII.
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