Pusapati was given detailed presentations on various aspects of the sector by senior officials of the Ministry.
GST will yield 'better value for money' for car buyers, increasing automobile industry demand, says Sandip Neogi.
Inclusive growth is about enabling wider participation in the growth story, but the current if fiscal debate is about how to compensate losers using annual Budgets, says Rathin Roy.
Mahavir Chopra compares mutual funds and Ulips to help investors decide.
According to market experts, GST Bill, movement of the rupee and uncertain global cues amid expected rate cut by the US Fed will dictate the movement of the markets.
'The only good thing is people will not be required to maintain their medical bills and invest time in that.'
'The IAS officers are after the rich people, the IRS officers are after the middle class and the IPS officers are after the poor. This is the new varnashrama created by the bureaucracy.'
The minister said the government is willing to hear from the industry.
"I had no government as the seat of the establishment was wiped out by the worst floods in over a century," Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Thursday, recalling the nightmare of the disaster that hit his state six days ago.
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The Budget sets out a comprehensive vision.
'Trump's desecration of all that Obama represented can be seen at different levels: Personal, political, systemic and structural,' explains Ambassador B S Prakash.
The Centre set up a political tug of war with opposition parties which have planned to observe it as a 'black day'
'Gloom is nowhere in sight, with healthy foreign exchange reserves, a strong rupee, healthy tax collections, corruption and crony capitalism under check,' argues Gopal Krishna Agrawal.
If the Modi government is going to set new benchmarks of performance, don't expect the majority of his dozen-odd ministers-who-matter with economic portfolios to be making the difference, says T N Ninan.
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Government needs tight control over both expenditure and populism.
With big data analyses, your investments, spends and big purchases are being tracked more closely now by the income tax department.
'The middle class you can hurt anytime. For revenues, politics, pleasure, anything,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
While companies having fewer visa holders in the US seem to be less exposed to rising protectionism, most front-line IT stocks are trading at attractive levels and, to a large extent, factor in near-term headwinds.
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The Prime Minister also underscored the importance of public sector undertakings in the country.
In an interaction with rediff.com, various TiE members expressed hopes of revival in the Indian economy after the formation of the new government.
Salil Dhawan reveals the MFs that have not only performed well in the past but have a promising outlook for the future too.
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Modi said there was a time when families would celebrate getting gas connections as if they have got home a Mercedes.
One way to do a reality check on the official numbers will be to develop a desi version of what came to be called the Li index in China.
'There are a lot of positive things these reforms are bringing about and it is only a matter of some quarters before the growth rate picks up momentum.' 'Until then we need to be a little bit patient.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met business leaders to hear their grievances on issues ranging from high capital cost to ease of doing business to certainty on taxation matters, as he interacted for the first time with the Indian industry chambers since taking charge over a year ago.
Such schemes try to exploit an anomaly in taxation, but aren't in violation of laws, experts say.
Any company resident in a country has to pay both indirect taxes as well as Income Tax.
The rally in index heavyweight ITC has boosted the sentiment across the board.
The pension fund managers distribute products under the National Pension System.
Budget 2016 may hold some answers to start-up cooncerns.
'To become more Indianised we had to be more colourful,' Rahil Ansari, Audi's India head, tells Ajay Modi.
The government is going all out to spread awareness about the new indirect tax regime, and training lawmakers is being seen as a necessary first step.
'There are two pre-conditions for big reforms. One, a sense of crisis and second, fairly concentrated levers of power.' 'India is growing at 7.5 per cent or something close to that.' 'Our levers of power are decentralised, not just between the Centre and states. Power is dispersed and there is no sense of crisis.'
'In India, we have a strange affinity towards recycling gifts.' But Jeenees is changing that.
Nasscom had estimated 12-14 per cent growth for the Indian software services industry in FY'14, and it aimed to achieve revenue of $300 billion for the IT industry by 2020.
The council decided not to levy any additional tax on small petrol and diesel cars of up to 1200 cc as well as on hybrid ones.
