As and when the GST comes in, Budget projections will have to be unbundled and revised. In fact, the pragmatic decision would be to present another Budget! This makes the passage of the Finance Bill with its multiple unrelated amendments seem even more dubious, says Devangshu Datta.
The government should set up agricultural co-operatives in every cluster of villages and in respective districts on a war-footing within a time limit. We should involve the services of our military personnel who retire at a young age with several years of working life still left in them and would be happy to contribute to nation-building, recommends Atul Gupta.
Surat houses more than 650,000 powerlooms. Of this, at least 60 per cent have been shut since a month, a loss of Rs 900 crore, finds out Vinay Umarji.
Experts caution that the rally in these stocks may fizzle out soon, as the overall market sentiment still remains weak.
The council decided not to levy any additional tax on small petrol and diesel cars of up to 1200 cc as well as on hybrid ones.
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The ball is now in the Reserve Bank of India's court to lift up demand, says Ajay S Shriram.
'We have to make doing business in India easier.'
Tax demands and regulatory hassles, coupled with low internet density and sundry other problems, would have kept Mr Ma awfully busy - and small.
Airtel CEO said, the 5G ecosystem is yet to develop in India and the prices are very high. Telecom companies including Vodafone Idea (VI) and Reliance Jio have also said that the current prices are exorbitant.
Investors turn their attention to export-driven sectors.
All credit to the finance minister for walking the fiscal and expectation tightrope extremely well in his budget speech, says Ganesh Natarajan.
We should brace ourselves for more bad news in the coming quarters -- on economic output and growth, strains on the fiscal deficit, export slowdown, small and micro enterprises in distress, and further accumulation of NPAs in the banking sector, says Rahul Khullar.
'Tax dodging through tax havens is one of the ways multinational corporations and the super-rich in India are using to evade taxes.'
The challenge before the government now is to use the factors that are favourable to its benefit.
For 2015-16, the planned outlay for the department was Rs 2,568 crore.
The corporate sector took production cuts, conducted inventory management and reduced staff to meet challenges following the govt's note ban decision
'Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the decisions taken by my government in the national interest,' President Droupadi Murmu said in her address to both Houses of Parliament.
In barter, you have the choice of picking up a product that's available with the barter company in exchange for the stuff you want to discard.
'Modi and BJP have fooled us enough by creating a Hindu-Muslim divide. Our anger is about jobs and farmers getting a good price, but Shah needs to be taught a lesson for betraying us.'
Conscious that he will have to rely on the bureaucracy to deliver, Adityanath is changing the faces and rejiging the administration.
The focus shifts almost immediately from celebrations to the challenges faced by the man who powered his party to 303 seats in the Lok Sabha.
'We showcased about 20 use cases in 5G trials in Pune and Gandhinagar and some of them were interesting and innovative.' 'However, which ones will take off and which ones would not be relevant, we don't know yet.'
UDAN demonstrates that good policy-making can fulfill important public requirements without requiring budgetary support, says MoS for civil aviation Jayant Sinha.
The trio, 'twin shocks' of demonetisation and GST, 'twin balance sheet' problem that has been weakening India's banking system and the 'twin deficit' problem will continue to challenge economic management and performance in the year ahead, says Shankar Acharya.
If borrowers don't have access to a bank's credit facility, it could make sense to use peer-to-peer systems.
'The revival of household savings and investment is the litmus test of whether we are on the road to recovery,' says Nitin Desai.
For years it has been evident that fibre and DTH would give tough competition to cable in India where regulatory overload has mutilated an already warped industry structure. OTT added fuel to the fire. From Rs 27,000 crore in 2010, cable's share of subscription revenues is now estimated at Rs 13,000 crore.
The prime minister has been unstoppable as he transported the BJP to colossal success on a wave of muscular nationalism, majoritarian pride and charisma.
Gandhi accused Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik of being remote-controlled by Modi
Even as government projects aren't lucrative from a revenue perspective, companies fight with each other to bag the contracts
'Jaitley was one of the earliest politicians to sense the changing political scenario in Delhi. He had closely watched the rise of the BJP and declining fortunes of the Congress party during the L K Advani era. But it was between 2009 and 2014 as the Leader of the Opposition that he began to read the tea leaves. 'And thus it was that he introduced Modi-Amit Shah duo to Lutyens Delhi,' says senior journalist R Rajagopalan who had known Jaitley since 1975.
To stay in the race for the long term, the company has to innovate continuously - something that MNCs and some of the home-grown Indian firms have been doing successfully, says Sangeeta Tanwar.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, the lead agency to check customs frauds and smuggling, has decided to post officers at India's Mission in New York (US), Singapore, Brussels (Belgium) and in Nepal's Birgunj.
'Even during the lockdown, we have received many online enquiries and subsequent bookings.'
The immediate concern for all companies is to prepare themselves - and their vendors and suppliers - for the new GST return filing mechanism, being test piloted from April 1.
At the heart of one of the biggest transformations in India's corporate history lies a plan to offer super-fast broadband services.
Experts suggest six ways to play stocks that tank suddenly and make money as Sanjay Kumar Singh listens in
"Our government does not delay decisions. We neither nurse problems nor keep them pending," Modi said.
For stressed loans, the need is to prevent disruption in cash flows from a systemic perspective, conserving employment and assets in untainted enterprises with the potential for recovery, says Shyam Ponappa.
Modi, in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, wrote that the US and India are forging a deeper and stronger partnership that extends far beyond the Beltway and the Raisina Hill.
