Existing units stay operational; those approved may not be notified, land could be used for other purposes
The government has become used to accounting for TDS as its income even though it knows a significant portion needs to be returned as refund
Dabhol's assets will be demerged into the power plant and the LNG terminal.
R-Power, Essar could be hit as state mulls benefit-sharing levy for ecology loss.
'We'll certainly have Hollywood productions, so why wouldn't we have Bollywood?'
As the number of cases crossed 2,56,000 with more than 7,100 fatalities, according to Union health ministry figures, and the country made a calibrated exit from the lockdown in non-containment zones, shop shutters in many malls went up for the first time since March 25 but the sprawling retail places were eerily empty.
'The Modi government has been taking credit for improvement in respect of the ease of doing business in India.' 'But when I look at the scams I cannot help feeling that it is too easy to do business with banks in India, if one is a Harshad Mehta, Vijay Mallya or Nirav Modi and their tribe,' says former Union home secretary Madhav Godbole.
After the United Nations declared June 21 as the International Yoga Day in December last year at India's request, the officers in the Ministry of Ayush began ideating about how to celebrate it in the country.
N Sundaresha Subramanian digs deeper into what Catalyst, an Indo-US project, brings to the payments ecosystem.
Congress MP Shantaram Naik on Tuesday gave a notice for breach of privilege against Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy in Rajya Sabha.
There is anti-incumbency in urban areas. Rural Punjab, the Akali base, will hold the key.
One of the beneficiaries is Jindal Steel and Power, which had earlier been kept out of procurement for rails
Indian talent may soon be allowed to work in France without a degree from a French institute.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasising the need to kick-start investment in the country, the project monitoring group (PMG) under the Cabinet Secretariat has asked various government departments to start monitoring projects for which clearances have been facilitated through this mechanism.
Critics have even suggested that India is doing this because it is not prepared to take on the requirements of TFA, with a relatively weak trade infrastructure.
Though the current National Democratic Alliance government has not endorsed the figure, it has not even repudiated it.
The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget.
However, flow of funds, would naturally rest on economic growth, reports Ajai Shukla.
Rs 200-cr burden likely for TV rating agencies.
'China's investment destination image the world over has taken a beating, therefore investors feel India is a safe haven for investments.' 'FDI is at an all-time high in India.' 'Now after such poor ratings, this FDI amount will fall.' 'Therefore, I am saying these things are happening at China's behest.'
DMRC-like SPV to be floated in a month for the Rs 98,000 crore Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor.
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian spoke on a wide range of issues -- from GDP growth and fiscal consolidation to job creation and GST.
Businesses coming to terms with Ind-AS (Indian Accounting Standards) implementation, GST can do without further uncertainty and costs, say N Sundaresha Subramanian & Sudipto Dey.
In its essence, GST is a national level system of value added taxation of goods and services, says Shankar Acharya.
'On the evening of the 17th, the RBI said the bank was put on moratorium.' 'Within an hour, the RBI said it would be merged with DBS.' 'How did DBS come to know within an hour that LVB was in trouble?' 'It means, what happened was match-fixing.'
It will now take at least two more years to get a clarity on the priorities and policies of the leadership of the new state of Telangana.
Bankers said fear of loan losses impairing their careers could make officers wary of sanctioning new loan proposals on their own.
'The government should refrain from 'adventurism' and 'megalomania'.' 'But this should be true of reckless government action against every Indian, whether or not they are wealthy or have access to the finance minister even when he is in hospital,' says Aakar Patel.
Urjit Patel as the new RBI governor whose focus is on taming inflation has lowered the probability of interest rate cut soon
Limited IT staff may compel them to focus on big fish than small depositors.
Rules for mining, roads, power and irrigation projects relaxed.
Poor governance, constant interference of promoters, opposition from unions and talks of being an acquisition target seen as main deterrents.
India will finish their home series against Sri Lanka on December 24 before leaving for South Africa on December 28. They are scheduled to play a two-day warm-up tie starting on December 30 before taking on South Africa in the first Test on January 5.
The approvals would be handled independently by administrative ministries of different sectors.
Education, jobs, health and more: Experts share their wishlist.
'The slide in growth has arisen primarily because we have an NBFC crisis on top of a banking crisis,' points out T T Ram Mohan.
Samples of Mother Dairy milk last week were found to be contaminated.
After one year in power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pretty much on the back foot, even if he continues to display bravado in his public pronouncements. He knows within his heart that he has wasted a lot of his political capital without getting much in return, says M K Venu.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
India is in the midst of its biggest crisis since Independence. It is a national emergency and begs to be dealt with. Politics can wait. Lives need to be saved. We need to vaccinate India at a pace faster than any country in the world, asserts Ramesh Menon.
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