Given the many policy areas where the Centre and the states have not been seeing eye to eye in the last few years, it is time the Modi government convenes a meeting of the Inter-State Council, recommends A K Bhattacharya.
Among other proposals, she said NRI portfolio route would be merged with the FPI route for seamless investment in stock markets.
They say that a stimulus package may not be necessary because, unlike last year's total lockdown, public transport, including the railways and airlines, is running and the restrictions on movement are localised and, in some cases, are partial rather than total.
It was not immediately known if Modi acceded to Jaitley's request.
Index heavyweight RIL surged 3% to end above Rs 1,000 mark while IT majors were also the top gainers.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan will also hold a meeting with leaders of all political parties on Wednesday evening to seek their cooperation in proper functioning of the House.
In the metal pack, Tata Steel was up 3.7% while Vedanta was up 1.8% .
The entire Budget-making exercise will be advanced by 3-4 weeks so as to complete the legislative part of financial business before April 1, the start of a financial year
Top laggards in the Sensex pack included HDFC, ICICI Bank, TCS, HCL Tech, Kotak Bank, Asian Paints, TechM and HUL, dropping up to 2.67 per cent.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to discuss key issues with state finance ministers.
Foreign Trade Policy: More incentives for exports, focus on ease of trading
Government on Thursday accused Congress of being "irresponsible" for not allowing Home Minister Rajnath Singh to make a statement in Rajya Sabbha on the Gurdaspur terrorist attack, which it said had originated from Pakistan.
Even the well heeled in metros find it difficult to go completely digital. Cash withdrawals from ATMs are back at the same level as they were before demonetisation
The government has taken a number of steps to address the situation faced by farmers.
'It is not simply demonetisation or GST, it is this government's failure to manage the financial sector crisis.'
Going ahead, the likely implementation of the goods and services tax bill in July and how the monsoons play out will have a bearing on India's demand for gold and gold jewellery
Taxpayer satisfaction is a part of the matrix of key performance indicators of the administration.
General Budget is a terminology earlier used to differentiate between the Union Budget with the Railway Budget. Full-fledged budgets are titled "Union Budget", while interim Budgets are titled just that.
Indian Railway's sustenance, freight traffic, - which accounts for about 70 per cent of its revenue - has been plateauing of late.
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Moving the Motion of Thanks to the President's address in the upper house, BJP member Bhubaneswar Kalita said the government respects farmers. He said the government has given new rights to farmers through these new farm laws and none of their rights or facilities have been taken away.
Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai would make the largest gain.
Investors lost Rs 2 trillion as Sensex crashed on Tuesday.
Here's what celebrities had to say about Arun Jaitley's Budget.
The sub-quota scheme may now lead to a ganging up of non-Vanniyars in individual constituencies against the Vanniyars just as in the past, such ganging up against SC-ST candidates was seen in the non-quota constituencies, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'This confrontation could have been avoided by a less arrogant administration that initially listened, used whatever negotiating skills they had and tried to be more credible,' observes Ramesh Menon.
Liquidity continues to be a worry for both, customers and dealers, with the latter facing working capital issues.
'I would like to convey the message to your readers that the prime minister himself is directly seized of the situation on the ground. He periodically reviews the situation on the ground and how it is moving forward, taking inputs from economists, business leaders, chambers of commerce.'
A panel will draft direct tax legislation, keeping in mind the system in other countries, international best practices and economic needs of the country
The BSP extended outside support to the Congress to form governments in these two states as it had failed to reach majority on its own.
More than 40% of the companies surveyed showed job contraction in FY18, says a report by CARE Ratings
It is worth reconsidering if this fascination with either having a single party majority or Modi's leadership or, indeed, both, is such a great idea for India, says Udit Misra.
Apart from IT and pharma, the lead spenders in travel are construction, automobile and metals and mining companies and together these sectors accounted for 82 per cent of business travel spend in India in 2015, up from 78 per cent in 2013.
Sentiments turned somewhat weak towards the middle of the session as profit-booking emerged as investors turned cautious on disappointing quarterly earnings by some bluechip companies
'GST had to come close on the heels of demonetisation as part of the same package.'
Particularly hit has been the apparel sector, where the time taken by the industry to adjust to the Goods and Services Tax regime, downward revision of export incentives, and a credit squeeze faced by small and medium scale enterprises, has pushed production downwards.
'We are very watchful about inflation and growth. But the main challenge is economic revival and growth.'
In the first part of an exclusive interview with Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com on the eve of the first year of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government, BJP President Amit Shah talks about the government's achievements and the controversy over the land ordinance.
Market breadth continued to remain strong, with 1899 gainers and 674 losers on the BSEs.
The government has spent a little less than one-third of the Budget estimate of capital expenditure, it can still spend about Rs 20,000 crore this year without disturbing its fiscal deficit target.
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