The Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to a bill to merge the three municipal corporations in Delhi, sources in the government said.
'This amendment, if passed, will bring the Information Commission firmly under the authority of the government.'
Parekh says drafting new I-T law is hindered by the lack of experience.
'With the Election Commission wisening up to the practice, which strikes at the very root of electoral democracy, the practitioners of cash for votes have been getting more and more ingenious,' points out Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
India's fiscal deficit trends are a bit like an alcoholic trying, unsuccessfully, to reform. Virtue does not last for too long, says Shankar Acharya.
RBI has, since January, cut its policy rate four times.
Twenty-seven months after she lost her husband in an anti-insurgency operation in south Kashmir's Pulwama, 29-year-old Nitika Kaul on Saturday donned the army uniform after completing a one-year rigorous training in Tamil Nadu.
He will presumably choose to remain true to the framework he has put in place.
The idle talk at street corners, cafes and public places since May 23 is that the winds of change are blowing across Bengal.
The finance minister said the economy had been slowing.
The Board decided to award full marks for it to students, following an outrage over the board allegedly promoting 'gender stereotyping' and supporting 'regressive notions'
Centre and state governments are steadily increasing excise duties and value-added tax
'It is not the duty of government to protect minority religions or promote it.'
'With over 50 per cent of medical seats reserved for those who have the ability to pay a fee ranging from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1.5 crore for a five-year MBBS course and quotas in accordance with affirmative policies in government colleges, the band of seats available for the not-so-rich and non-OBCs is very narrow.'
The Commission told RBI Governor Urjit Patel that it has been apprised of the problems candidates are facing due to withdrawal limits imposed after note ban.
'The future looks quite bleak unless we ramp up testing and start vaccinating on a war footing.'
Modi should call an emergency Parliament session and repeal these acts, said the SAD chief, adding that people have the final say in a democracy.
But it would be unwise on the government's part not to heed the suggestions made by the experts group, set up by the Supreme Court, in particular the one on involving the states and giving them the flexibility in designing and implementing the farm laws, observes A K Bhattacharya.
'Everything will be decided by the Centre.' 'Universities will have no autonomy to start a new course or introduce a new syllabus.'
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday kept the repo rate unchanged 6.50 per cent.
'We don't know how much the Pay Commission outflow will be.'
Over the years, a noticeable unpleasantness began to develop between senior and junior, Sorabjee and Salve. Salve gave credit, for his rise in the profession, to Nani Palkhivala, and not to Sorabjee. This hurt Sorabjee, though he never admitted it.
The sad truth is that the debt-to-GDP ratio will shoot up close to 90 per cent in the coming year, and the fiscal deficit glide path does not promise to reduce it substantially any time soon, predicts Mihir S Sharma.
Jeet Singh, the constable, talks about how his colleagues in the force work in the absence of medical facilities or pensions.
'Whatever happens in any part of the world affects us.'
Observing that there are "definite and proved" allegations that complaints of the victims of violence in the aftermath of the West Bengal assembly polls were not even registered, the Calcutta high court on Thursday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into all alleged cases of heinous crimes like rape and murder, while accepting the recommendations of a National Human Rights Commission panel.
It shows that states would require a compensation to the tune of at least Rs 1.67 trillion in 2024-25, as none of them would be able to achieve a 14 per cent growth every year.
The Economic Survey states that the rationalisation and reprioritisation of subsidies through better targeting would play a vital role in fiscal consolidation and in targeting expenditure more towards inclusive development.
'Why do we make finance ministers go into contortions, to tell us that near 6% is 3.5%?' 'Why not encourage more open and full accounting so that the country knows the real picture,' asks T N Ninan.
A large number of rich farmers, who earn more than salaried employees in the cities, get away with paying no tax at all in view of the government's lack of will to consider an agricultural income tax
Excise exemptions may be whittled in Budget to offset higher govt salaries, pensions
There are some 20-odd schemes with this default provision, or something close to it.
'If the government spends Rs 10 lakh crore this year then you would be looking at a GDP growth of minus 5 per cent.' 'If you do not do this, you will be looking at GDP growth between minus nine and minus 10 per cent.'
'I want to ask Modiji is the support price announced by him good enough to make a farmer's sons to start farming in their villages?' 'Can he swear by Bharat Mata and say that is true?'
Clause 150 empowers govt to change the meaning of 'financial products/services' to include new instruments.
'However, this time it looks like that is not working.'
The regulatory body has said Adani's power purchase agreements with Gujarat and Haryana would be maintained.
The NRA will have representatives of IBPS, SSC and Indian Railways.
Raising doubts over an encounter by the Assam police, the National Human Rights Commission has recommended that the state government pay Rs 5 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of Rajib Basumatary, who was killed in Doimoguri in Sonitpur, Tezpur on June 23, 2010.
'Even if Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech were successful in ramping up production overnight, what happens to the capacity after the demand from India is met?' asks Sanjeev Nayyar.
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