Centre took the line that it should not be presented in the middle of Assembly poll in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur
The studies found that sectors with the highest unaccounted income included real estate, mining, pharmaceuticals, pan masala, gutkka and tobacco, bullion and commodity markets, film industry, educational institutes and professionals.
Government will provide a short window of a "few months" to income tax assesses to come clean by declaring their money and assets stashed abroad.
Parliament's PAC rejects BJP MP Kirit Somaiya's plea that the briefing be postponed.
In an effort to boost commodity trading in the country, the much-awaited amendments to the Forward Contract and Regulations Act of 1952 will happen during the Budget session of the Parliament.
Last week, Power Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha said that the government is confident of adding 1,18,000 MW capacity by 2017.
Last year, there was no convention because the government had not appointed any chief information commissioner, who happens to be administrative head of the commission and oversees preparations of the function.
Some of the key proposals of the agenda relate to transforming the banking sector, addressing agrarian distress, countering hate crimes and discrimination, and spurring employment generation.
Ambassador Venu Rajamony, who served as press secretary to President Pranab Mukherjee during his tenure, salutes the statesman and political legend, who passed into the ages on Monday.
A top Home Ministry official said no note has been prepared yet to be placed before tomorrow's scheduled meeting of the Cabinet to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Has the Modi government been more at odds with institutions than other governments? There is no doubt that there have been more run-ins. While the RBI and CBI cases have drawn attention, there have been others, less publicised, Subhomoy Bhattacharjee points out.
Arvind Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was informally recommended to the post by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
The amendment Bill provides for corporatisation and demutualisation of the existing commodities exchanges and setting up of a separate Clearing Corporation.
In a move that is bound to generate controversy, the election expenditure for both Parliamentary and assembly constituencies is likely to jump by one-and-a-half times before the coming Lok Sabha polls. Anita Katyal reports
To check black money menace, the Cabinet on Tuesday approved a new bill that would give more powers to the tax department in tracking illicit wealth stashed abroad and provide for strict penal actions for such offence.
The European Commission urged Greece to stick to commitments it has made to reform its economy as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called a snap election within hours of new EU bailout cash arriving in Athens.
An interview with Amit Mitra, the finance minister of West Bengal.
Seeking to wriggle out of the FATF's grey list, Pakistan has imposed tough financial sanctions on 88 banned terror groups and their leaders, including Hafiz Saeed, Masood Azhar and Dawood Ibrahim, by ordering the seizure of all of their properties and freezing of bank accounts, a media report said.
Experts have started giving comments on provisions that the govt must make in Budget 2016-17.
With only three days to go before Finance Minister P Chidambaram delivers the Budget in Parliament, market expectations with respect to reforms are running high.
The modifications will be on the basis of recommendations of the Law Commission in its 154th, 177th and 178th reports.
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.
When the Centre collects money through cess, it can retain the entire fund for the particular scheme.
The Economic Survey was tabled in the Parliament on Friday.
Rahul Khullar's guiding credo was that a civil servant must never lose sight of his client: The little guy. The evil men are those who are decision-makers but abdicate their responsibility of taking decisions, leading people to lose confidence in public institutions.
The banks argue since the scale of credits is unforeseen, they will have to bear an unknown cost of servicing these accounts.
Three experts on cyber security, digital forensics, networks and hardware were roped in by the Supreme Court on Wednesday to "enquire, investigate and determine" whether Pegasus spyware was used for snooping on citizens and their probe would be monitored by former apex court judge R V Raveendran.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had came out with a host of proposals last month.
"It is about time that India and its institutions are protected from these 'institution wreckers'," said Jaitley.
Survey likely to be tabled in July by the new government.
Likely to be merged with Union Budget from FY18
The early tabling of the financial Budget ends a 70-year tradition.
The ministers quit their posts in protest against central govt to grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh.
'The issue is not whether the farm laws are beneficial for the farmers or not.' 'The farmers have taken a stand that they do not want these laws.' 'Why do you want to thrust these laws down their throat?'
Most expect the Budget to be path-breaking.
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The Finance Ministry had set a time period of 18 months, which expired last year on August 21, for completion of the study.
Besides advancing the presentation of the Budget to perhaps the first week of January, , there are four new initiatives that could be rolled out from the next Budget, says A K Bhattacharya.
Disruption is totally unacceptable in Parliamentary system, the President said.
It will allow states to detain students in class 5 and class 8 if they fail in the year-end exam.
