'Success will require political skill, not just economic expertise'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has high hopes from the VibrantGujarat Summit.
President Pranab's four-day visit to China that saw him meeting the top Chinese leadership and discussing the sticky boundary issue and cooperation in combating terrorism besides the need for a predictable nuclear regime.
'An isolationist US and a disintegrating European Union will create a power vacuum that only China is in a position to fill -- a conclusion that is uncomfortable but unavoidable,' says Nitin Desai.
Following is the Facebook post of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on one-year of the BJP-led NDA government.
While some CMs suggested reopening economic activity in phases, others pitched for the extension of the coronavirus lockdown, but with a carefully crafted exit strategy
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
This gains importance in the backdrop of speculation on a second term for Raghuram Rajan.
Cashi Crisis: Day 9: Aaj ki Taaza Khabar!
Unless the judges factor in the ungovernability of technologies and their beneficial owners, present and future Presidents, prime ministers, judges, legislators and officials handling sensitive assignments may become redundant with reference to their age-old roles for securing 'national resources and assets', warns Dr Gopal Krishna.
The Indian rupee also trimmed most of its early gains and was trading at Rs 61.28 compared to its Wednesday's close of Rs 61.31 to the US dollar.
"Reform is not an end in itself. Reform for me is just a way station on the long journey to the destination. The destination is the transformation of India," he said.
"We are seeing the feel-good factor is back. It's only a matter of time before the entire economic engine starts working seamlessly," says Motilal Oswal.
Are we adopting an idea whose time has come and gone? My feeling is, yes, says ex-banker C Joseph Chacko in the fourth article of the series on inflation targeting.
Income from renting of properties is taxed at a flat rate of 10%.
Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu aligns priorities, funding and organisation to shape a transformation agenda.
India is also exploring that way but the strength of the Indian economy was such that not even one bank was threatened, not even one insurance company was threatened, and we were able to withstand the shocks.
I-T lens on current account deposits over Rs 12.5 lakh. All the news and more post demonetisation.
'What we need is right skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling.'
India's good fortune, experts in the US feel, is not the result of a fundamentally strong economy, but because it is the best of a bad set of options.
Consequences of China's efforts to stabilise its equity markets after three weeks of declines, which wiped out some 30 per cent of the value is far more importance to the world, says Clyde Russell.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Ayushman Bharat health care scheme is just a slogan for the moment, it is the state's Mukhyamantri Amrutum health assurance scheme which is a comforting reality for many.
India must reckon with the possibility that it will struggle to attract higher overseas investment.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye's visit to India will enhance economic and military ties between the two countries and give the relationship a strategic dimension, says Jiye Kim.
Rumours about a spike in taxes for equity investors are flying thick and fast.
Yes. Whilst public expenditure is kicking in, the key reason is the decline in private investment
The Aadhaar Bill passed during Budget session last month, overruling amendments moved in Rajya Sabha.
James Wilson tracks down discrepancies in the much-hailed demonetisation policy and the subsequent statements of the government and the Reserve Bank of India.
This is the joint statement issued by the ministry of external affairs on the visit of US President Barack Obama to India.
'I hope Prime Minister Modi will take the population bull by the horns,' says Sudhir Bisht.
'Through the use of technology, the GSTN will tip the balance in favour of compliance rather than tax evasion, lowering the barriers for entry into the tax payment system while making it much harder to cheat on payments,' says Nandan Nilekani.
Although there are serious risks facing the US economy in the coming year, there is also a good chance that growth will be substantially stronger than it has been since before the recession began.
'There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today.'
Venkaiah Naidu said 'let there be a discussion... November 8 is a historic day'.
Srikanth Kondapalli on what to expect from the seventh BRICS summit meeting to be held in Russia in July.
The research found that 50% of the people were receiving either nothing or less cash than they were entitled in lieu of the subsidised grains that were stopped under the pilots starting from September 2015 till May 2016.
Bunker Roy, founder of the Barefoot College at Tilonia in Rajasthan, was awarded the Clinton Global Citizen Award at a ceremony in New York on September 25.
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