The Council also discussed process to make return filing simpler with just one return to be filed every month.
Civil Aviation minister says that certain regulations restricting the growth in the aviation sector needs to be re-looked to attract investments.
Three key babus will make room for a new set of officers to carry the baton of Budget programmes.
Entirely new businesses have been built using data to disrupt traditional companies.
Not only is your privacy stripped stark naked, says Mitali Saran, the system itself is illegal and vulnerable.
On her 101st birth anniversary, November 19, four letters that reveal a different side to inarguably India's toughest prime minister.
IT stocks have dropped about 3 per cent in the days since the Donald Trump administration took first steps toward visa reform and all of India's highest-profile technology tycoons have seen their net worth eroded. Saritha Rai reports.
'As demonetisation showed us, the Shah-Modi duo can take big risks.' 'Risking economic damage for political benefit, however, is one thing, stoking old fires in complicated Assam is another', warns Shekhar Gupta.
'The best bet for Indian tennis to win a medal at the Olympics would be having Leander and Bopanna together.' Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.com reveals how the AITA convinced Rohan Bopanna to partner Leander Paes in Rio,
'There must be thousands if not lakhs of people the government is illegally spying on.' 'Why should we enable this criminal activity by volunteering our details?'
Murthy met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal last week.
Malayalam film The Dolphins gets preachy after a while, says Paresh C Palicha.
Narendra Kumar Patni, pioneer of India's information technology (IT) services revolution, passed away in the US.
Cinematographer Ravi K Chandran's Yaan is a long, tedious and completely over-the-top action drama.
With the Congress government in crisis in Uttarakhand after nine party members of Legislative Assembly, including a minister, joined hands with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party overnight, Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Saturday asserted that the welfare of the state was his priority and added that he would tender his resignation if he was not able to prove majority.
One out of every two Indians would have Aadhaar number by the middle of 2014, UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani has said as he underlined the unique attributes of the identification system that will lead to public sector reform and governance transformation.
Adityanath will be the 21st UP chief minister and the fourth from the BJP.
'There will only be an institutional solution between the board and the founders to take Infosys forward.'
From a career-high ranking of 62 in 2011, Somdev Devvarman has plummeted to 279.
The list has been compiled by the Shanghai-based The Hurun Research Institute, the second year it has done this ranking, of an 'India philanthropy list'.
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, IT expert Nandan Nilekani and cricketer Mohd Kaif are among 194 candidates as Congress tonight released the first list of its nominees for Lok Sabha polls that contains several new and young faces.
Interview with V Balakrishnan, Former CFO and board member of Infosys and AAP leader
'How do you expect me to tone down my anger when the most prominent culture in India today is the culture of corruption, in every sphere of life?'
The director could have done better by avoiding the cliched tales.
The telecom industry is moving towards a five-plus one model.
'Karpoori Thakur must be remembered by people today who are tired of witnessing fractious politics where corruption, bigotry, hatred and violence seems to have become distressingly recurrent,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
Earlier in the day, Pichai announced Google would work with the Indian Railways
To reduce those not even meeting variable costs to 19% of network by March, from 38% five months ago.
INS Vikramaditya is not the only thing on Defence Minister AK Anthony's agenda during his current visit to Moscow. Also on the anvil is the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft joint development project which, if finalised and signed, could emerge as India's largest joint defence programme costing around 11 billion dollars, reports Nandan Unnikrishnan.
Jean Dreze, a noted economist who was was a member of Sonia Gandhi led National Advisory Council, was dropped from the list of speakers at the Delhi Economics Conclave organised by the finance ministry and inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The rally in most of these stocks is partly attributed to impressive financial performance.
Unified Payments Interface launched to simplify mobile banking.
It was supposed to be a panacea against corruption, leakage and a magic wand for financial inclusion. But everywhere you look are people who enrolled, only to fall through the cracks again.
'Mamata's fascination with stars is so deep-rooted that she uses her clout as chief minister to get close to them.'
Talk that Anil Kumble, the former Indian captain, will contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha election from Karnataka has been making the rounds. Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa finds out if Kumble will indeed spin a political googly.
Teams of students and coders demonstrated in 24 hours diverse programmes impacting health and livelihood issues with use of a personal identity number.
Modi government must fix policy paralysis.
The panel will be asked to give report by March-April next year.
As tennis raise hopes of an Indian medal at the Rip Olympics, Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.com put things in perspective.
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