Budget planners for now have been told to prepare with the assumption that GST will apply from April 1.
The day-long conference will be chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitely and presided over by both Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan and Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh.
These events would include celebrating the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's Champaran Satyagraha in Bihar in a big way. It was Gandhi's first mass agitation in India, where he had led a protest of peasants against forcible cultivation of indigo.
'Where is the spirit of Team India?' asks Chandrababu Naidu.
Reacting to Trump's latest move, China has vowed to immediately retaliate.
The environment ministry is likely to allow generic modification of food crops.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's landslide election in 2014 raised hopes he would draw a line under India's socialist past, cut welfare and reduce the government's role in business.
The Budget chose to stick to an ambitious disinvestment programme for 2016-17.
A panel will examine the merits and demerits of various dates for the commencement of the financial year.
Oilseed output to surpass its previous record of 32.75 mt in 2013-14 to 33.59 mt this year
Government looking at cushioning slowdown due to demonetisation with sops and higher outlay for micro, small and medium enterprises, agriculture, and affordable housing.
Since December 2018, monetary policy has been eased substantially by RBI with policy rates being cut by 75 bps and policy outlook being changed to 'accommodative'.
India is currently under the 21-day lockdown since March 25, with only essential services exempted to contain the fast-spreading virus.
Govt to soon appoint consultant to explore opportunities for shortlisted Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep island clusters.
Govt looks to take cooking gas to tiger reserves, Naxal-hit areas
Asked for China's comments on India not joining the RCEP deal over concern of cheap Chinese products potentially harming its domestic industry, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told the media in Beijing on Tuesday that China welcomes India joining the deal.
The Constitution (124th Amendment) Bill on providing 10 per cent reservation in jobs and education to the general category poor was passed by Parliament on January 9.
In containment areas, movements of people is totally banned and essential services are delivered at the doorsteps.
India boycotted Pak National Day event over invitation to Hurriyat leaders.
A raise in the I-T exemption limit has been sought by many.
Ajit Balakrishnan on learning from past technology revolutions.
The meeting with Xi is being held amid the ongoing trade war between the United States and China.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi who inducted 19 new ministers into his Cabinet on Tuesday has carried out major changes in the portfolios of his top ministers.
The UP government is also planning to free up its own land from illegal encroachment to set up these new cow- shelters in "safe locations" and with full facility for fodder and water.
Here is all you need to know about the National Population Register and worries over its links with NRC.
The Congress said arrogance of the BJP has touched its zenith as it turned 'blind' to farm distress.
Large stocks were ruined in transit due to thunderstorm and rainfalls in the north and the north-east states, resulting in fewer kilos of potatoes at mandis.
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022.
After assuming power in 2014 with a full majority of its own, the BJP-led NDA government started an ambitious process of reforming labour laws in the form of codes aimed at making the framework less cumbersome with a variety of alterations. It had planned four codes each for industrial relations, wages, social security and welfare, and occupational safety, health and working conditions. To this end, 35 central labour laws were to be converted into four codes that would have had the virtue of streamlining labour relations. But none of the proposed code Bills could be converted into a law principally because neither trade unions nor industry representatives came on board. They hold the key to India's low-growth-high unemployment paradigm but the government may struggle to push them through this time as well. Somesh Jha explains why
In a nearly 25-minute televised address to the nation, Modi said implementation of the lockdown will be strictly ensured in its second phase and detailed guidelines will be brought out on Wednesday to ensure that outbreak does not spread to new areas.
It is likely the government will divide the country into different zones during the proposed extended period of lockdown and might permit a few services to function in safe zones.
The DMK parliamentary party appears to be a house divided, reports R Rajagopalan.
Instead of mechanically consolidating all labour laws into one, provisions of all labour laws should be relooked in terms of their substance. The irrelevant and archaic provisions have to be fixed, says Aparajita Gupta.
Modi will first stop in Rwanda for a two-day visit, then visit Uganda from July 24-25 and finally go to South Africa.
Budget speeches have been replete with incomprehensible and even hilarious statements, says Rathin Roy.
The court was informed that the commission for air quality management will start functioning from today.
Full list of the rejigged Union Council of Ministers
The initiative is being called lateral recruitment to senior positions in the government.
Ban on US-EU import of meat & poultry products could, if we get active, allow us to access a $128-billion market.
As the government faces a difficult choice in keeping up with the rest of the world in AI development while making sure it does not add to unemployment, it has set up a task force to draw up a policy for the accelerated deployment of AI
