Your promise to protect bankers for their commercial decisions is a huge confidence booster, but how does one define a commercial decision? Are our investigative agencies well equipped to dissect lending decisions of bankers?
'This updated NPR database along with Aadhaar Number would become the mother database and can be used by various government departments...' the home ministry declared in July 2015. 'UID/Aadhaar has been used as a fish bait to ensnare and entrap present and future generations of citizens,' warns Gopal Krishna.
Has the Modi government been more at odds with institutions than other governments? There is no doubt that there have been more run-ins. While the RBI and CBI cases have drawn attention, there have been others, less publicised, Subhomoy Bhattacharjee points out.
Shastri took the first big step to transform India's agriculture, the benefits of which his successors reaped in plenty, says A K Bhattacharya.
The Finance Ministry is of the opinion that Vodafone might drag its tax dispute to court.
There are many collateral advantages of taking the tough decision.
The Telangana Group of Ministers on Friday reviewed the progress made by the Andhra Pradesh government with regards to the bifurcation of the state on various fronts.
Funeral and cycles allowances have been retained and revised.
'After the creation of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh has been left as an agrarian state.' 'Therefore, the special category status to this residual state was imminent and necessary for its development,' YSR Congress MP V Vijayasai Reddy explained in the Rajya Sabha.
'Politics is a game of public perception and my father felt that by his long disappearances, Rahul Gandhi was losing the battle of perception.'
There are some 20-odd schemes with this default provision, or something close to it.
Representatives of the British telecom company on Friday met senior finance ministry officials, in search of an amicable solution.
The pipeline for well-qualified and experienced policy economists at senior levels of government has broken, leading to a growing dearth of suitable candidates for top economist positions.
Jaitley can make his innings -- notwithstanding its likely length -- to be a watershed tenure, or just add to the image of the MoD drifting rudderless, says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
They also voiced concerns over a double penalty being sought to be imposed on them for KG-D6 fields output not matching targets.
Many ministries couldn't use the allocated funds since it came into force, resulting in much-needed savings.
The Raghuram Rajan committee report for evolving a composite development index of states, submitted to the finance ministry today, has a note of dissent from member Shaibal Gupta.
The next prime minister must ensure that the mistakes made by Manmohan Singh during his tenure are not repeated, notes A K Bhattacharya.
According to officials aware of the matter, restarting the project could mean inviting the court's 'contempt' as the case -- in which the Supreme Court has held that biometric identification cannot be a criterion for a citizen's access to welfare -- has still not been closed yet.
'An expanding army, rising salaries due to the 7th pay commission, and raised pensions due to OROP are consuming money at the cost of badly needed bulletproof jackets, rifles, artillery, submarines, warships and fighter aircraft,' notes Ajai Shukla.
FBT was an unpopular tax and withdrawn before the General Elections in 2009
DEA officials to push for this at a meeting with FM Jaitley.
In July, IRS officers in Mumbai held an incendiary meeting where they criticised the alleged interference in 'operational matters' by the department of revenue.
In a proposal to FinMin, the Banks Board Bureau suggests asset sales to PSUs within a deadline to recover bad loans.
Credibility of fiscal promises is a virtue that no finance minister can afford to lose.
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan recalls a tussle between the government and RBI when Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister and how it was resolved.
Experts believe scrapping some projects is likely to bring some stability in road sector.
Fiscal situation better but spending cuts likely in FY16 too.
Sitharaman said the government will bring in a new national education policy to transform India's higher education system into one of the best in the world.
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we are facing a situation of empty coffers but eagerness to expand.
The draft favoured up to 49 per cent foreign equity in inventory model in the case of 100 per cent made in India products sold through Indian management-controlled platforms with resident Indian founders/promoters.
Commerce ministry monitoring remedial measures to promote exports in key markets.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said Budget-making was guided by the Prime Minister's words of the government being there to protect the interests of the common man.
IMF projected India's economic growth at 4.25% in 2013-14.
The Covid pandemic has left a question mark on how the central government manages its staff.
Existing units stay operational; those approved may not be notified, land could be used for other purposes
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion in its draft Cabinet has proposed to further tighten the rules for foreign direct investment in brownfield pharmaceutical sector.
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'I have no problems with the finance ministry or with state governments treating petrol pump prices as the last resort for meeting their ambitious spending targets with very limited revenue resources.' 'But let's do away with this smokescreen of free pricing of petrol and diesel and go back to administered pricing regime,' says Dr Sudhir Bisht.
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?
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