The Election Commission (EC) has raised certain questions on the government's proposal to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in the construction and maintenance segments of the railways.
Not many can question the greatness of the Kohli-led Test team but the defeat in the World Test Championship final against New Zealand was also a big letdown of the year.
Most successful and ambitious business leaders feel persuaded that they have no competent successor, says R G Vilakudi.
The US-based auto maker told the government an internal probe had revealed the company had violated testing targets
No attention to detail seems to have been paid while introducing such a major provision and the wide arc of people it will take in its ambit, states Harsh Roongta.
Studies have shown that milk is the most common form of adulteration in India
The travel agents have demanded refunds for customers
India is going into the longest lockdown in the world, with the least amount of notice given to its people and the least preparation by its government.
GPS devices will enable real-time money transactions
Realtors expect BMC's 'single window' clearance to be a game changer, leading to correction in property prices.
APAs are part of govt's aim to move to a non-adversarial tax regime.
To adopt the January-December financial year cycle, the government needs to shrink the current financial year to three quarters and present the new annual budget to the state legislative assembly for its passage in December.
Company plans to raise the contribution of Indian private sector to its revenue from about 15% to about 50% in two-three years.
Bureau has registered just one product so far despite 1,500 applications.
However, it's too soon to see any trend; July rain is key.
The Maharashtra government is pushing hard to get a Rs 4,500-crore financial package from Centre, reports Sanjay Jog
These conditions are implementation of the 'One Nation, One Ration Card' scheme, ease of doing business, power sector reforms, and urban local body reforms.
Cabinet sub-committee to meet to review the situation and take necessary steps. Sanjay Jog reports
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Diplomatic channels activated to keep India eligible for soft loans from World Bank affiliate, though rules show it's probably time we made way for the needier others.
Given India's reliance on coal, electric vehicles could at best be 10% more efficient than petrol in terms of CO2 savings.
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Firms are mandated to change prices of medicines within 45 days of NPPA's notification.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is agreeable in principle to this tax, but the government is yet to take a decision.
India and the US also agreed to support the efforts of the Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad to develop a cluster map.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Wednesday backed party chief Nitin Gadkari, saying the latter has come "clean" by asking for a probe on the charges against him. "Nitinji has come clean by asking for an inquiry by the department of company affairs," Advani said in a statement on certain media allegations questioning investments in the BJP president's family business.
Sitharaman also directed public sector bank heads to clear long pending vigilance cases against their officials for alleged malpractices.
Around 275,000 migrant labourers and their family members have returned to the state. According to the state government, this number could exceed 1 million by the end of this month. As the NDA government in Bihar is scheduled to face polls at the end of this year, providing livelihoods to these people is on the top Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's agenda.
Monsoon revival over weekend likely, but second-half rainfall may be muted. If the rains become scarce after mid-August, the standing kharif crops might be impacted
There's no telling how long this government will last or how cordial the relations between the alliance partners will be, but it tells us that while constancy and fealty pay, timing is everything, points out Aditi Phadnis.
I-T department raises tax demand on them for unpaid tax deducted at source
BSE proposes two models for making gold trading and investment transparent
Test reports from UP food regulator started the controversy.
'We can't have the best of both worlds -- large, efficient, world class government-owned banks, doing social banking and making profits. 'Why not set them free from the shackles of such obligations and run them as business units?' says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
CAs not sure if individuals declaring unaccounted money will get immunity from reassessment as these provisions are not covered in the Bill.
6 post offices have been identified for the pilot stage.
Although the idea is to focus on all states to turn India into a global manufacturing hub, the department of industrial policy and promotion, the nodal agency to carry out the campaign, has selected a handful of states that have a sound industrial backbone such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and others.
Telcos demanding OTT players to come under some sort of regulation as they are eating into their SMS and voice revenues.
The DoT report is expected by the end of the month.
The plucking of dussehri, which will hit the shelves next week at 50% premium, started late this season, because of poor crop and adverse weather conditions, including hailstorms, in the orchards of Malihabad.
IMD will present its month-wise and region-wise forecast in June.
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