Sectors throw up a wishlist for the Finance Minister.
Instead of a consumption stimulus the government must address the NPA issue with a war footing and invest in infrastructure, affordable housing and exports, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
The govt must fix regulatory hurdles to ensure growth.
Government on Monday formed a multi-agency group to monitor exposes in this regard and vowed to take action against all "unlawful" accounts held abroad.
Getting the balance between fiscal restraint and growth-contracting policy remains a problem.
Data used for the graph and cited elsewhere in the column were obtained from various publications of the RBI.
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Most top industrialists rate PM's first 100 days in office as 'good', primarily due to his intentions, not concrete policy measures.
As oil minister, he has overseen India's petroleum and natural gas needs. But now he also runs the environment ministry, where he has issued permits for 100 stalled projects in a month-long spree that has delighted industry but shocked green activists.
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SpiceJet's ex promoter Ajay Singh is trying hard to pump in huge money into the airline.
He endorsed transparency and financial stability in addition to issues related to inclusive growth and development, write Puran Singh and Nupur Pavan Bang.
A large number of rich farmers, who earn more than salaried employees in the cities, get away with paying no tax at all in view of the government's lack of will to consider an agricultural income tax
A provision of Rs 15,000 crore has been made in the budgetary estimate of 2016-17 towards interest subvention.
He said the NDA's work culture was different from that of the previous governments.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Australia will not be at the periphery of India's vision but at the centre of its thought, as he called for closer bilateral security cooperation and a comprehensive global strategy to tackle the menace of terrorism.
2014 was a year for downturn for most economies across the globe.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who recently completed one year in office, has, in an exclusive interview with Smita Prakash, editor, ANI, said the opposition alleging that his government is a "suit boot ki sarkar" is definitely better and more acceptable than being labelled a "suitcase" (ki sarkar), and satirically added, that after ruling for sixty years, the Congress has suddenly remembered the poor.
The public-private partnership model is a compulsion, says the minister.
Shuvajit was confident of making a huge difference in the lives of people in rural India.
'After many rudderless years, India and Japan have prime ministers with a sense of purpose and direction,' says Brahma Chellaney.
Five inspiring women who travelled thousands of miles to Hyderabad recently to grow their business and skills share their tales of global entrepreneurship. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel listened in.
'With the recent challenging of the notion of the Indian Ocean Region being India's strategic backyard, China is gradually upping the ante in the maritime realm around India.'
