On an average most commodities are up between 20-30 per cent compared to a year ago levels.
Enhanced revenue generation is a priority for the government.
Lower revenue collection puts upward pressure on government borrowing, ensuring that it deviates from the glided path of debt reduction
The real benefits can be seen when prices stabilise, preferably at levels acceptable to both consumers and producers.
'There are millions of Americans who are doing their best to undo the damage that he (Trump) is doing to the world,' Michael Moore tells Indira Kannan in Toronto.
Converting what was supposed to be an interim budget or a vote on account into an almost full-fledged budget announcement in the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal proposed an array of incentives for both middle-class and farmers, whose disenchantment was said to have cost the BJP dearly in recent assembly elections.
India's upbeat outlook contrasts with neighbouring China, where growth slipped to 6.7 in the first quarter
It is too late in the government's term for it to pull its usual trick of blaming the last guys.
The government is scrambling to contain the fiscal deficit at 4.1 per cent of GDP in the fiscal year ending March
Can Jaitley's team hope to garner 17% more on personal income tax?
For 2014-15, the bill on this account is likely to be 12.8% more than in 2013-14.
Rapid rise in disposal of corruption cases against govt employees has helped
"At present, there are two main rate slabs under which sa majority of goods are covered -- five per cent and 12.5 per cent -- which will now increase to three (five per cent, 12 per cent and 18 per cent).Will this result in multiple litigations is anybody's guess."
If you looked back at 2018 and had to give it a name, the Year of Limitations might be the most accurate.
Lower IT exports will raise India's dependence on capital flows to fund imports.
Unless the judges factor in the ungovernability of technologies and their beneficial owners, present and future Presidents, prime ministers, judges, legislators and officials handling sensitive assignments may become redundant with reference to their age-old roles for securing 'national resources and assets', warns Dr Gopal Krishna.
Low oil prices drove the growth in states' share faster than expected, says Abhishek Waghmare.
Depreciating the rupee against the dollar to boost economic growth has fiscal constraints and monetary limitations
Though it may be anecdotal, there are some HR people who cannot reconcile their own salary from a CTC to take home!
The event will also hurt PNB's asset quality in the March 2018 quarter. While the finer details of the fraud have not been provided, making it difficult to gauge the exact impact, analysts say it will dent the bank's financials.
Lower fuel subsidy payouts might restrict gross fiscal deficit in FY15.
The challenge before the government now is to use the factors that are favourable to its benefit.
The report said South Asia is expected to be the fastest-growing region.
Shane Warne's tell-all autobiography is every bit as controversial and engrossing as his cricketing career, notes Dhruv Munjal.
While the latter is being viewed as a greater concern, the former may gain prominence in the next few weeks.
Sensex dull at close, Infosys rules, ITC drags.
Inflation is down and there's every chance that crude prices will be subdued through the next year.
The Nifty50 slipped 33 points to close the session at 8,509 after hitting an intra-day high of 8,587.
RBI is expected to slash rates by 150 basis points till end-December 2016.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said the country is on an "upward curve" and a good monsoon, GST passage and increased infra and rural spending will further accelerate the growth.
These refineries, commissioned mostly in the 1950s and 1960s during India's early industrialisation push, are inefficient and costly to maintain compared to their modern counterparts on the coast mainly operated by private companies.
'On the tax front, most of the Budget proposals are sensible'.
Exemption limits, standard deduction on radar.
Market leaders in this line of business - New India Assurance and Tata AIG - have begun to reassess the premium on risk exposure of their portfolio in the director's and officer's liability business.
Market experts believe the retreat is because of uncertainty.
Chidambaram on Monday sought to soothe nerves about its external finances by promising to contain the current account deficit at 3.8 percent of gross domestic product this fiscal year with a slew of measures including easing rules for raising loans abroad.
India's GDP growth to reach 8% by 2017. says World Bank
The government of India had budgeted to bring down fiscal deficit to 4.8 per cent of GDP in the current financial year, from 4.9 per cent in 2012-13.
The Economic Survey was tabled in the Parliament on Friday.
'We do India great disservice if we continue to perpetuate a flawed narrative on trade, one based on myths rather than facts,' says Hardeep Singh Puri.
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