The Hindutva social media continues to present the DMK especially as anti-god, anti-Hindu and anti-Brahmin. The strategy did not work in the past, it has not worked in the present, and would not work in the future, as a massive vote-getter, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Investors lost Rs 2 trillion as Sensex crashed on Tuesday.
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.
Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai would make the largest gain.
'It is not simply demonetisation or GST, it is this government's failure to manage the financial sector crisis.'
A panel will draft direct tax legislation, keeping in mind the system in other countries, international best practices and economic needs of the country
Liquidity continues to be a worry for both, customers and dealers, with the latter facing working capital issues.
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.
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
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.
More than 40% of the companies surveyed showed job contraction in FY18, says a report by CARE Ratings
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.
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.
'GST had to come close on the heels of demonetisation as part of the same package.'
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.
'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.'
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