The basics and history of India's tax policy suggests that increase in the number of taxpayers has occurred and so has compliance with a reduction of tax slabs and moderate rates of tax.
The disappointment of the year is government's failure in finalising the re-drafted aviation policy.
U B Pravin Rao explains how the company is executing the strategy.
The sun is out. The flood waters have receded. Keralites have spent crores in quickly cleaning up the state and making it visitor ready. Go to Kerala folks!
After the screening, the shortlisted candidates will be vetted by an external committee, to be headed by former RBI governor, Bimal Jalan.
While e-commerce operations for these firms are small at the moment, it is slated to grow in the next 3 to 4 years.
Always respect your employees and treat them as equals.
The watershed 2014 Indian election has thrown a decisive mandate after 30 years of coalition-based governments.
The Ghazi Attack tells the story about one of the 'last unsolved greatest mysteries of the 1971 war.'
Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa director Kundan Shah tells Patcy N/ Rediff.com how he impressed he was with Shah Rukh in his early years.
DLFknowingly suppressed material facts: Sebi
While one of them is on the verge of opening, three others are expected to come up in the next three years.
'The debate is not whether the Indian defence apparatus is in a state of disrepair, but whether it is capable of securing the defence of the country if any envisaged threat becomes real.'
Tamil Nadu has time and again proved that it needs a decisive leader even if corrupt, rather than an indecisive leader, however good-hearted, good-natured and honest he may be, writes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Akhilesh believes his catchment area is the 4.1 million new voters who are 18 to 19 years old.
With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.
'The disquiet in the Sangh is, of course, over demonetisation.' 'But more than that, it is about the growing centralisation in the running of the government and party,'
GST will yield 'better value for money' for car buyers, increasing automobile industry demand, says Sandip Neogi.
Abheek Barua & Bidisha Ganguly explain why the US treasury should intervene if the overvalued greenback continues to rise.
Since 2000-01, the Indian economy has shown the tendency of being unable to absorb all domestic savings as investments.
While funds will not be a constraint, the challenge for Aasaanjobs will be to reach out to people with no internet, says M Saraswathy.
The central bank has been intervening in the foreign exchange market by buying dollars, and this is capping the rupee's gains.
Sunil Sethi raises five questions to avoid the pitfalls that ended his ignominious earlier tenure as chief minister exactly a year ago
Andhra Pradesh now comes third in ease of doing business.
'We had a great product for the global market and we could sell it globally resulting in this amazing growth.' 'When customers come online and buy a product, they don't look at whether it is created in India or somewhere else.'
'End of the day, my thing is, entertainment, entertainment, entertainment.'
One popular strategy is to hire contract workers.
Nobody is clear what 'minimum government maximum governance' means.
The Unnao gold hunt is an exercise in softening Hindu sentiments in the bigger dig for votes in Uttar Pradesh in 2014
More than 250,000 gram panchayats are yet to be connected through broadband.
By region, Thiruvananthapuram leads with 247 defaulters, followed by Kolkata with 173 and Bhubaneswar with 115
'There is simply no evidence of any new or clear policy direction in internal security, and mounting evidence of policy incoherence.' 'Worse, the promise of giving the common man -- and, more importantly, woman -- a greater sense of security has been utterly belied. Indeed, with an escalation of communal posturing and rhetoric, there is a broader sense of uncertainty,' says Ajai Sahni.
India is likely to attract increasing notice from global investors.
Macro environment, tech shift main challenges now: N Chandrasekaran
Magsaysay Award winner Sonam Wangchuk speaks to Claude Arpi about his journey, his fights, his hopes and how he became an inspiration for the Bollywood blockbuster.
Will Arundhati Bhattacharya be the RBI's first woman governor? Or will Urjit Patel succeed Raghuram Rajanas RBI governor when his term ends on September 4?
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has been asked to open up bookings of SpiceJet till March 31, 2015, while airport operators have been asked to provide 15 days to the airline company for making payments.
Formidable challenges including funds for the farm loan-waiver, and law and order stare him at his face, with the opposition claiming the misses have outnumbered the hits.
The appraisal season is over... and it probably didn't go very well for some of you. So what do you do when you haven't got what you think you deserve? Virender Kapoor has these suggestions.
The proposal to levy a 'super-rich' tax, at the rate of 35 per cent, on those earning more than Rs 10 crore a year might not receive support of the Union Cabinet.