'While the GST is structured to be an all-encompassing tax and to create a vastly expanded digital network of recorded transactions, no one knows how traders long used to avoiding taxes will apply their ingenuity,' says T N Ninan.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
25,600 cases of banking fraud totalling Rs 1.79 billion were reported up to December 2017. 'There is an inherent legacy when it comes to insuring crime.' 'Generally, most banks are uncomfortable in sharing data about employee fraud.'
E-waste accounts for 70 per cent of Indian landfills.
Chinese mobile brands are deeply entrenched in the Indian market. A move to bar them may send a bold diplomatic message. But its cost for the local industry is anybody's guess. In the event that Chinese brands face curbs, two handset makers - Samsung and Apple - squarely stand to gain.
The Swadeshi Jagaran Manch has pointed out that these firms pose a threat to domestic manufacturing and retailing as they do not pay relevant taxes such as GST, giving them a huge edge over local players.
While chips have become ubiquitous, Moore's Law has remained a self-fulfilling prophecy even half a century later. Not bad for an industry where the time scale is not measured in decades and centuries, but in annual quarters, says Shivanand Kanavi.
Experts tell Ujjval Jauhari that investors need to be careful in picking stocks given high valuations and with markets possibly ignoring potential risks
The entire gamut of China's activities is aimed at keeping India on tenterhooks, cause fatigue to its troops and keeping its security system unstable, so that it cannot play a meaningful role in international geopolitics as an effective partner of the US and Japan, observes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
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From new and competitively-priced iPhones to slashing prices of its older models, it had a multi-pronged strategy.
Niraj Bhatt discovers how a CFO 'without a finance background' made it to the corner office at TCS.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The attorney general admitted that there is no sovereign guarantee, but asserted that there is a letter of comfort by France which would be as good as a governmental guarantee.
Amit Bansal discusses the emerging trends in the engineering sector.
While the Trinamool government, led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, tried its best to attract investors, including from Singapore, not much headway could be made.
India must formulate a new growth path to become a top Asian economy.
While reserving the verdict, the apex court had said that the pricing details of Rafale jets could only be discussed after it decides on whether to make it public.
Recently, The World Bank has come up with the latest figures on the wealthiest countries in the world.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a New Year resolution for our policy-makers.
It's not every day that an undergraduate from India wins a scholarship to study at one of the prestigious universities in the world.
'This has to be seen in the context not only of the legacy we inherited, but also of global economic weakness.'
'If after inheriting the very bad situation we have reached this level despite consecutive years of drought and no growth in the world economy, it is no accident.' 'It is a result of the sound macro economic policies followed by this government.' 'We have eschewed populism and stuck to a path of fiscal prudence.'
'WhatsApp is storing our data on servers which are physically located in another country.' 'We might be having good relations with a particular country at this very moment, where WhatsApp's data servers are located, and in which our data is stored, but tomorrow we might be having bad relations with them, then what is going to happen to that data.'
Leaks of documents are neither new nor limited to particular ministries.
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The eternal question remains unanswered, what price security and what cost liberty, says Vikram Sood.
When buying into a cyclical business, it might make sense to spread investments across several companies.
Some experts says that the high net-worth requirement of Rs 50 crore for setting up an IU is a deterrent.
'As the tanks roll down Delhi's Rajpath and the C-17s fly overhead, there could be a lot brewing in Hyderabad House,' says Surya Gangadharan.
Think beyond engineering and medicine.
MySmartPrice has been growing about 100 per cent a year and is profitable.
Asia's falling stocks have triggered an exodus of funds from the region.
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'His simple lifestyle, his optimism, his hard work and his genuine humility made him an authentic role model to millions of children, many of them growing up in challenging circumstances.'
Biometric authentication is based on the unscientific and questionable assumption that there are parts of human body that does not age, wither and decay with the passage of time.
Clean energy cess to hike cost for power sector.
Give more than 100 per cent to your job, advises author Bikram Dasgupta.
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of ACC Cement, ruling that if a product is manufactured by one firm and sold by another with the latter's brand name, that sale would attract sales tax, not the first transaction.
Modi government has pledged to lay 700,000 kms of broadband cable.
Here is the complete text of the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's address at the inauguration of the national media centre in New Delhi on Saturday.
Power transmission infrastructure in 18 major cities could be potentially hacked.
