The National Recruitment Agency will prove to be a boon for crores of youngsters, the PM said.
The Indian IT sector, which gets 60 per cent of its export revenue from the US, on Wednesday said the move by the state of Ohio to ban outsourcing by government departments to offshore locations like India is discriminatory and amounts to a trade barrier.
The Rajasthan government on Wednesday joined the austerity bandwagon, banning foreign tours by ministers and officers with immediate effect till June 30 next year.
The tearing hurry to form theatre commands has to be replaced by a balanced and deliberate approach. We need to accept that this process will take time if executed correctly and in the best interests of the Indian armed forces, argues Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday said the state government was willing to bear the expenditure for increased payment and training for players of the Indian hockey team.
The union cabinet on Thursday approved an additional expenditure of Rs 442.03 crore (Rs 4.42 billion) for the computerisation of income tax department.
In a meeting with the commerce minister, India Inc hammered Sharma on the collapse of investments, structural nature of the current account deficit and stagnant growth in agriculture.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday ordered a vigilance probe against former Bahujan Samaj Party minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui and his wife in connection with a disproportionate assets case after Lokayukta recommendations.
These conditions are implementation of the 'One Nation, One Ration Card' scheme, ease of doing business, power sector reforms, and urban local body reforms.
Determined to imbibe austerity in its policies, the government has asked various departments to scrap or downsize expenses on insignificant activities by up to 10 per cent when they submit proposals for Budget 2010-11.
Asks ministries to cut certain non-Plan expenditure by 10%.
The current salary paid by the Delhi government amounts to 17 per cent of the total expenditure.
Analysts welcomed the better Q2 GDP readings of 4.8 per cent, which came in above their expectations, but warned that the planned expenditure cuts by the government will be the key thing to watch out going forward.
All interest free advances stand discontinued with the exception of interest free advance for medical treatment, travelling allowance for family of deceased, travelling allowance on tour or transfer and leave travel concession
Some experts had said the Budget did not have much in terms of big ideas.
This is roughly 70% of the national transporter's budgeted wage bill of Rs 40,435 crore for the current financial year.
'The economy has to become the government's No. 1 priority, which it is not at the moment,' says T N Ninan.
Field formations may re-examine cases from 1997.
Jaitley's team presents a quintessential mix of foreign-educated, intellectual technocrats and seasoned bureaucrats
The announcement of a deferral is expected to be part of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's Budget speech on February 29.
As part of its fiscal tightening measures, the finance ministry has asked all government departments not to seek any increase in their allocations for 2009-10 over and above what has already been provided for in the Interim Budget presented on February 16.
The lion's share of the amount -- Rs 1,003 crore (till November 10) -- comes from an Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) imposed by the Supreme Court in 2015 on trucks entering Delhi while the rest is made up of cess on every litre of diesel sold, in effect since 2008.
The average expenditure of pharmaceutical companies on research and development has increased four times in the last five years.
The taxman, said the party 'incorrectly disclosed the hawala money as voluntary donations'
The Election Commission has a fight on its hand as candidates use ingenious methods to smuggle in money to Voters.
The government had pegged food subsidy at Rs 90,000 crore (Rs 900 billion) in the 2013-14 Union Budget.
The department of economic affairs in the Union finance ministry has suggested aggressive sterilisation of foreign capital inflows, tightening of government expenditure and intervention in key farm produce markets like wheat.
The Finance Ministry has put many restrictions such as a ban on purchasing new vehicles and limiting foreign tours of officials in all the ministries.The efforts are aimed at containing fiscal deficit at 3.3 per cent of the total GDP.
Yes. Whilst public expenditure is kicking in, the key reason is the decline in private investment
Entire districts without electricity and untold damage is what is left behind after Cyclone Fani, known as the worst storm to hit the state, barrelled through on May 3. Take a look at how the state is now picking up the pieces after the storm and inching towards reconstruction.
The government on Monday announced that it has credited revised pensionary benefits along with arrears under One Rank-One Pension scheme to more than 2 lakh pensioners drawing service and disability pensions.
For next fiscal, the minority stake sale target has been kept at Rs 36,000 crore.
The agreement would divert China's attention and keep them busy in the Pacific theatre, probably resulting in a reduction in threat perception in our area of interest in the Indian Ocean, notes Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
Over Rs 16 crore in cash has been seized till now by EC-appointed surveillance teams and check squads in five poll-bound states, with Rajasthan topping the chart with the recovery of Rs 7.13 crore.
Some of the policy measures announced are expected to go a long way in removing current challenges on financing faced by businesses and also increasing economic activity, especially in areas of construction and manufacturing.
Taxing SoftBank, the largest shareholder in Flipkart with a little over 20 per cent stake, however, will be easier.
The Budget allocation for Ministry of Agriculture and allied activities has grown by 114% since 2010-11
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
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