To say capital gains from stocks are effortless shows little understanding of the treacherous investing terrain, says Debashis Basu.
A K Bhattacharya lists three reasons why Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will most likely present a full Budget on February 1, 2019.
The Budget chose to stick to an ambitious disinvestment programme for 2016-17.
Even Subramanian Swamy, who says he is an ardent supporter of the prime minister, has been taking proxy pot shots at him.' 'At the ground level too, there is resentment from workers and local leaders who have perhaps not got whatever they may have wanted,' notes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
The way the present government has dealt with appointments of civil servants remains to be a cause for concern.
The three main regulators have different approaches to grievance redressal and different standards to stop harmful from coming pitched at the consumer.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold discussions with public sector banks (PSBs) and financial institutions to draw up an action plan for banking reforms
'To identify with the common man, Modi had to look like one.' 'The disastrous suit with his name written on it never made its reappearance.' 'Frequent dress changes during the day, which led Arvind Kejriwal to calculate that Modi spent crores on his attire ever year, too stopped.' 'Instead, a newer Modi emerged: Humble and eager to serve.' Narendra Modi has cleverly repositioned himself as a man of the masses in the past three years, says Aditi Phadnis.
In a Q&A with Doordarshan, Jaitley discusses how he chose the areas on which he would spend more.
