'The most important thing to do is to stop taxing citizens so brutally,' recommends T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
If he expects the states to take steps for controlling inflation, he should also respect the country's federal structure and not assume a veto power at the GST Council.
Hurdles ranging from erratic taxes throttling special export zones to a cash crunch and clogged ports are killing exports.
The new tax regime proposed by the Modi government may not have acceptance from all corners.
'You can't consume clean air if you won't pay for it just because it's a 30-day problem,' says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Mudra Bank will be a Rs 20,000-crore institution, which would "primarily be responsible for refinancing all micro-finance institutions.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your stockmarket queries.
Or is all of media being re-invented, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Hiring activity in the country touched an all-time high in July, witnessing a 11 per cent sequential increase, indicating a strong revival of economic growth and a recovery of business from the impact of COVID-19, a report said on Friday. With 2,625 job postings, hiring trends grew 11 per cent in July compared with 2,359 postings in June, the highest it has ever been, including the pre-COVID-19 timeline, according to the report by Naukri JobSpeak. The Indian job market has witnessed sequential growth for the second month in a row, with a 15 per cent rise in June, after the pandemic-linked decline in April and May, it stated.
Anil Ambani had given a personal guarantee to the loans given by SBI to Reliance Communications and Reliance Infratel in August 2016.
The battle on creating jobs is virtually lost. If the battle for achieving higher growth too is lost, then its political consequences could become difficult to manage, says A K Bhattacharya.
According to a media report, Trump's comments could create a predicament for him and his legal team.
Only reforms that accelerate economic growth can generate the revenues to finance expenditure on social infrastructure for the poor, not the other way round, insists Jagdish Bhagwati.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
'I was no one. I am here today because I am a proud soldier of the Indian Army,' says Captain Mohammed Quamrul Zaman.
'Sanjeev Kumar was my favourite actor. But no one can compare with Amitabh Bachchan.'
Vakrangee Softwares Ltd has informed BSE that the company has completed preparation of digital voters list of Maharashtra. \n\n\n\n
Enabling the online booking and payment for Indian Railway tickets is one such case. Amitabh Pandey's book is about how he went about enthusing teams inside the Indian Railways and facilitating online reservations, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
India Inc is facing threat from non-traditional sources.
'For every person there is a different way that you show respect for your country...my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go - do your work.'
The prejudices the Chinese carry with them mean they are not natural global managers.
'Let the high price of onions clear the market, matching supply with demand.' 'Let onion growers keep exporting -- we are the world's largest onion exporter, export 10% of our production,' advises Naushad Forbes.
'We will resist it.' 'Farmers will not let that happen.'
The Zee saga will see a long-drawn-out court battle before shareholders get any chance to vote on any proposal by the management or Invesco, says Prosenjit Datta.
Apart from navigating the bank through the Covid crisis, Jagdishan may also have to deal with the latest development on the auto loan lending practice scam. He will be expected to deliver consistent profit growth of 20 per cent-plus quarter after quarter, irrespective of the operating environment.
At the end of the six short stories, Feels Like Ishq is uneven yet watchable, feels Sukanya Verma.
'I was seven years old in 1983. I never heard about that historic win because we did not have a radio set in our village.'
Mr Modi should be conscious that it was his choice to slash the number of tax-payers from 60 million to 15 million, notes T N Ninan.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
The question is whether Prime Minister Modi can convince the world's investors that India is the ultimate investment destination of 2018, says Kanika Datta.
'Air India's privatisation is acceptable as long as its control does not pass on to a foreign entity,' says A K Bhattacharya.
'What is unusual about the current period of slow growth is that it has come without an external driver -- high oil prices and/or successive monsoon failures -- as was the case with all previous periods of slowdown, going back 50 years, notes T N Ninan.
'Will you declare MSP for 100 odd crops that the farmers of India grow?'
Only a leader with sufficient moral authority with voters can pull off such experiments, notes T N Ninan.
The hack may have been done by a rogue Twitter employee, or it may have been a smart hack into the Twitter system, or a social hack where someone conned Twitter's employees into giving them access,' suspects Devangshu Datta.
Sibal termed these allegations as an attempt to divert attention from issues of national importance such as the CBSE paper leak.
#MainBhiChowkidar was trending world wide on Twitter.
The time is ripe to accede to the founders' plea to declassify them as promoters.
'Right now, politics is operating in a state of suspended animation. That works to Modi's advantage.'
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