'Experience of administration may make a member of civil service a good administrator but not necessarily an able and impartial adjudicator,' observes the Supreme Court.
The new Land Acquisition Act to provide just and fair compensation to farmers came into force from January 1, 2014.
Aadhaar architect becomes most visible face to oppose Facebook plan
January inflation may undershoot RBI's 6% target.
Despite the various steps taken by the central bank, the pressure on the rupee has continued, which is mainly due to global factor
Competition is intense and with the blurring of differences in service proposition and fares, it becomes imperative that airlines use their on-time performance for messaging and brand building.
The Goqii fitness tracker is a wrist band that measures one's steps, calories burnt, distance travelled, and even tracks the sleeping patterns.
Those who have studied Assam elections say the high turnout has the Congress worried.
If Reliance Jio resets the rules of the game with low voice and data tariffs, most incumbents will find themselves back to square one.
Have companies overlooked the impact of GST on employee benefits such as health check-up facilities, mediclaim, mobile handsets, house lease, long service awards, employee welfare schemes, and so on, asks Anita Rastogi, partner-GST and indirect tax, PwC
Doomed AirAsia jet's fuselage was found on Wednesday raising hopes of retrieving the remaining bodies of the 162 people killed in the tragedy, as investigators downloaded the contents of black box recorders and were likely to crack the crash's mystery soon.
And here's 6 things you need to know about it.
India is on the brink of overhauling its tax system, implementing the BEPS project and seeing a further evolution of the GST at the same time as a general election. This makes 2019 an exciting and challenging year, note Maulik Doshi and Jigar Doshi.
Sebi directs freezing of all demat accounts not linked to Aadhaar by December 31
Trai lowering of roaming tariffs likely to have negligible impact on financials as existing headline tariffs are lower.
'Of all the election skirmishes, it is the one between Mamata and Modi that has hit the nadir.' 'Obviously, the prize catch is Bengal where the BJP is determined to make inroads while Mamata is equally determined to keep them out,' notes Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
A more rigorous training in core skills is required to boost the engineering talent in the country, instead of a varnish of 'soft skills', says Ajit Balakrishnan.
'Global investors expect the rupee to be more vulnerable in the downturns in the future than ever before,' notes Apoorva Javadekar.
Here's what you should look at before investing in mutual funds.
The RBI cut rates for third time in 2015 due to favourable economic conditions.
The environment ministry till May 2014 (still under UPA) ordered that cases like Vedanta's expansion plans need to consult people. But in December 2014, the NDA government reversed this position and in March 2015 the environment ministry extended Vedanta's environmental clearance till December 2018. This it did even while the question of the need for public hearing by projects in different kinds of industrial parks was being contested in the courts. This allowed the company to carry out construction.
Manish Sabharwal tackles 5 criticisms of demonetisation.
Nadella showcased improvements to Cortana and announced previews of new cloud services.
The market direction will be guided by corporate earnings, especially the oil & gas companies, since they were responsible for earnings disappointment in the past quarter as well.
In the high performing company, everyone could very simply describe what they did and how they created value.
The preferred course of action to challenge Wendy Doniger's many published works and polemical Hinduphobic statements is to debate it, Aseem Shukla tells Rediff.com's Arthur J Pais.
If you want to get the perfect score, you must take as many mocks as you can.
A keen understanding of the way our brain functions is essential to building sustainable routines and habits that set us up for success, says Jay Kumar Hariharan.
This piece is a tribute to that corner of film criticism that they call subtextual film criticism.
Don't look for a single cause -- a combination of factors is needed to bring down any plane, says Shakti Lumba
Faced with sluggish economic growth and dwindling exports, China on Wednesday devalued its currency for the second consecutive day.
A glance back at some important events that occurred in 2018.
Technology became more personal in 2015.
Flipkart and Snapdeal take a cue from Amazon even as they differ on who is ahead in the race
He was getting fruits, but no implement to cut them with. He told the judge, sadly: "I have tried and it is very difficult, your honour." His statement quickly brought up the imagery of Peter trying to cut a pineapple with his teeth or a papaya with a pen or a toothbrush.
'We started analysing young patients and realised that they had causes like undetected diabetes, which suddenly flares up during COVID-19.' 'Secondly, hypothyroidism was one of the factors.' 'And obesity.'
China's domestic debt is a major concern.
The world economy's growth engine is slowing, but not collapsing.
Lost in this maelstrom is the unasked question about what are the secrets the government really needs to keep? One can appreciate the need to keep news about movements of troops secret. But what is the need of sealing, and sequestering away the bulk of the work being done by ministries dealing with economic and social welfare, asks Sunjoy Joshi.
Neha Manglik, the only female CAT topper this year tells us how she did it.
