'A close relationship between India Inc and the government cannot help the BJP win elections.' 'While Opposition parties may feel good about Mr Bajaj criticising the Modi regime, the BJP should be seeing the indictment as a political boon,' says A K Bhattacharya.
It will bring down the cost of a second house because of tax benefits and price appreciation
The report cautioned that low capacity utilisation and stressed balance sheets of banks and businesses will prevent a strong investment revival in the short term.
Both parties claimed they wanted to extend Diwali greetings to the governor and denied that any political discussion took place during the meeting.
The new scheme may link the incentives to the battery power - higher the power, higher the incentive and most electric two-wheelers running on Indian roads use low power and fast charging batteries.
Arun Jaitley on Friday said he would defer the move.
'Modi had promised to deposit money in the accounts of people, but he has done it only in the case of some rich businessmen like the Ambanis'
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If the precautions are not taken and guidelines are not followed properly, there can be chances of spike in cases, the government said.
You can exit Ulips after five years.
The BJP assessment -- or at least that of some of its leaders -- is that the Congress in Gujarat has peaked too soon, having already fired all its weapons and has nothing new to say.
The Yogi Adityanath government on Wednesday transferred 20 senior IAS officers, shunting out Principal Secretary-Information Navneet Sehgal and others who wielded considerable influence under the Akhilesh Yadav dispensation.
'Your strike rate is very important when it comes to seat-sharing.'
Gandhi accused the prime minister of not talking about his future plans for the state and keeping mum on the issue of "corruption."
'If credit is not available, people will postpone buying. That's what has happened.'
There were heightened expectations from Budget 2017 after the impact of note ban on different sections but most remain unfulfilled.
'Jaitley was one of the earliest politicians to sense the changing political scenario in Delhi. He had closely watched the rise of the BJP and declining fortunes of the Congress party during the L K Advani era. But it was between 2009 and 2014 as the Leader of the Opposition that he began to read the tea leaves. 'And thus it was that he introduced Modi-Amit Shah duo to Lutyens Delhi,' says senior journalist R Rajagopalan who had known Jaitley since 1975.
'Modi is still immensely popular and, therefore, he can sustain any number of policy failures.' 'Modi himself has worn multiple faces so it would be naive to think that the Modi of 2021 will be the same Modi that will be campaigning for re-election in 2024.'
Defending his economic policies, Modi said demonetisation was 'a very big success story'.
'Mr Kejriwal is almost exactly the package that Mr Modi offers: Personal aggrandisement, the building of a personality cult through full-page newspaper ads day after day, populist schemes involving subsidies (whether affordable or required), abandonment of secular principles, exaggerated claims and no checks on leadership,' points out T N Ninan.
The government plans to raise resources to finance capital spending beyond the Rs 3.10 lakh crore budgeted for 2017-18 through higher borrowing or divestment receipts.
For a long time, the Indian economy has been drifting without a credible monetary anchor.
A K Bhattacharya digs into the yet-to-be-public report on ways to curb black money and finds out that Modi's next moves could include action on dabba trading, hawala, and education.
Google is going ahead with a policy revision mandating 30% charge on in-app purchases across all apps on Play Store. This has left developers' community worried about tighter squeeze on their earnings, says Yuvraj Malik.
The Sikhs love a good fight, and that's what the Modi government has given them.
The council, headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, will meet again on December 11 and 12 to hammer out the differences.
Gujarat has topped with a score of 71.14% on ease of doing business list.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
According to the draft, in the northeastern states the threshold is at Rs 500,000.
On being asked why he doesn't talk about his humble background like Modi, Singh said, "I don't want the country to take a pity on the basis of my humble background."
The Modiquake has devastatingly hit all Opposition, says Nazarwala.
Dealers attribute the sluggishness in sales to distress in rural India as well as tepid sentiment in urban markets.
Top Congress sources said they would not hold up the Bill.
It said the money supply recovered to its pre-demonetisation level in mid-2017 and is now increasing steadily, similar to the previous trend.
Around 576,000 housing units, worth Rs 4.64 trillion, are delayed in seven major cities of the country
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Former CBI Director A P Singh, who ran into rough weather over his purported links with controversial meat exporter Moin Qureshi, has resigned as UPSC member after a special court in Mumbai termed charges levelled against BJP President Amit Shah in fake encounter cases as being "politically" motivated.
It's seen as a signal that he wants to engage with India Inc at a time when the economy has started looking up.
He termed the Centre's decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes as "surgical strike" on common man's "small savings" and not on "black marketeers".
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