The Supreme Court on Thursday assured the Centre and bodies like SEBI and RBI that it will take a decision by Friday evening on their plea seeking setting up a larger bench for modifying an earlier order restricting the voluntary use of Aadhaar card to PDS and LPG schemes only.
'The COVID-19 pandemic must push the military into a long-term reconsideration of its primary challenges.' 'There must be greater emphasis on humanitarian aid and disaster relief including the management of contagious illnesses and impending crises caused by climate change,' notes Ajai Shukla.
'You peel one layer, then another layer, then another, but in the end, you will see that there is no onion inside.' 'This package has been packaged well, but there is nothing much inside the package!'
These plans aren't likely to put substantial cash in your hands.
The abolition of wealth tax is again a welcome step.
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.
Retirement blues can sometimes result in actions that are dysfunctional, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi writes a letter to the nation on Tuesday listing his government's achievement as he completes on here in office.
Managing expectations is a challenge for policymakers.
Some organisational changes are likely in some of the key army formations.
The applicant must have an operational savings bank account.
80% of beneficiaries in 300 districts to be linked with direct benefits transfer
Beauty is woven into the ghazal with such deep feelings of love that the focus is always on seeking oneness with the other, notes Gopi Chand Narang.
In analysing census data from 2007-2011, researchers found that the at-birth sex ratios of Asian Americans are the same as white Americans. Arthur J Pais reports
The city needs some autonomy, or it will continue to decline in all the ways that are familiar, observes T N Ninan
Greeks are split on whether to accept an offer by creditors that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls a "humiliation"
Railways can contribute 2.5 per cent to three per cent in the GDP with an improved infrastructure, he said.
Modi, who was in France on the first leg of his three-nation tour, said there have been a number of constructive changes in the last five years.
Elaborating on this theme, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan pointed out that if the power sector had not been opened up through reforms initiated in 2003, India would still have been in darkness.
Some of their tactics would put a snake oil salesman to shame, says Harsh Roongta.
Most of these road contracts are spread across Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, with the government struggling to restart them.
Millions voted in the United Kingdom on Thursday in the country's closest polls in decades as Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party and opposition Labour were locked in a dead heat electoral battle with migrant voters, including the Indian diaspora, expected to be the deciding factor.
Trump said that his proposal should be supported by both parties (Republican and Democratic) as a fair compromise -- one where nobody gets everything they want, but where the country gets the critical reforms it needs.
What lies ahead for Korea's forgotten athletes? Take a look.
Both the Greek and Iranian deals are extremely imperfect and fraught with uncertainty, says Claude Smadja.
Though the wily TRS supremo, credited with achieving the separate state of Telangana, stopped short of saying he was about to declare dissolution of the assembly, none doubted its imminence.
The NCLT said the new board must hold its meeting by October 8 and come out with a road map before the next hearing on October 31
The President said that for rapid creation of jobs in the manufacturing sector, the government will strategically promote labour-intensive manufacturing.
'UBI is a tricky subject.' 'Our worry is the government could get rid of UPA's social welfare schemes targeted at the poor.'
'Is it time to think beyond the traditional questionnaire-based approach in India?' asks Atanu Biswas.
Banks are clear that lending rates are not going to fall further, say Hamsini Karthik and Anup Roy.
'For the first month, we have only had 5.5 million who have paid the tax.' '40 per cent have paid nil as tax; 95 per cent of the taxation for the first two months has come from only 400,000 assessees.' 'So even now, the tax-paying habit, of paying a marginal or negligible amount, or not paying anything at all, is quite prevalent,' reveals Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
A lot has been written about the impact of the recommendations.
Many exemptions make little sense, such as a monthly exemption of Rs 100 for college education and Rs 300 for hostel fees.
"I want to know from the Congress as to why it is agitated and telling lies repeatedly. Is it because there is no Quattrocchi mama or Christian Michel in defence deals done by the BJP government," Modi said.
'Make in India' could suffer the same fate as did privatisation and the command economy, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
To attract capital into infrastructure projects, the ratings system needs a fresh look.
The stylish batsman of yesteryears polled 173 votes while his opponent Prakash Chand Jain got 73 votes. His entire panel won their respective contests.
Laying the roadmap of the Narendra Modi government for its second term, President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday said empowering every person is the main goal for a 'New India' by 2022 on the back of a "stronger mandate" for continuing uninterrupted the journey of development started in 2014.
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