A provision of Rs 15,000 crore has been made in the budgetary estimate of 2016-17 towards interest subvention.
'The actual price of petrol is Rs 35 and it jumps to Rs 88 because of government taxes.'
The Delhi CM's principal secretary has been described as quick, decisive, and quite unlike a 'babu'.
Technology and operations management expert Elliott N Weiss discusses manufacturing, the trouble with too much automation, and the need to strike a balance between people and artificial intelligence with Ritwik Sharma.
Airline says can't discuss dues publicly, denies grounding of planes
Tax demands and regulatory hassles, coupled with low internet density and sundry other problems, would have kept Mr Ma awfully busy - and small.
The BJP leadership is understandably mulling all options on the roll-out of the GST.
The passage of the Bankruptcy Code could set the stage for other important legislation that may see India undergo more economic change than all governments combined since the reforms implemented by P V Narasimha Rao in 1991-93, says Ben Merton.
In the decade since Biyani revolutionised retailing in India, he has attempted a number of things, eventually exiting a few of them.
The GST will replace more than a dozen levies central and state levies, including central excise duty, service tax and central sales tax as well as VAT on sale of goods and entry tax, to make movement of goods seamless across 1.3 billion market.
Increase in first half of FY14 comes despite a fall in average crude prices; weak rupee helps.
Their reopening followed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' reluctant acceptance of a tough package of bailout demands from European partners
A second vote will be held on Wednesday, on measures including justice and banking reforms, when a similar outcome is expected.
The government must realise that it has very little time to recover itself, its reputation, its legacy - and India's fortunes,says Mihir S Sharma.
West Bengal was the second-most industrialised state in terms of value added and first in terms of number of factories and employment even in the mid-1960s. With a severe and long process of deindustrialisation, it lost its primacy.
A good monsoon could rein in food inflation. Largely good corporate results mean better days are ahead. Nifty may reach record levels, points out Devangshu Datta.
When President Obama lands in New Delhi later this week, this spirit of accommodation must reignite a strategic economic relationship between the two countries.
In a meeting with stakeholders last week, the authority mooted setting up a Special Purpose Vehicle along with airlines and state-owned oil marketing companies to develop common infrastructure to import ATF, among others, at Chennai and Kolkata airports. While AAI and OMCs will hold 76 per cent in the proposed SPV, the airlines will participate in the remaining 24 per cent equity.
While the widespread feeling is that employment growth has been sluggish, some argue that, since sabka vikas slogan will most probably not deliver, Mr Modi and the BJP are going in for an unambiguous strategy of Hindu consolidation, says Subir Roy.
Levy in India one of the highest in the world; finance minister urges banks to tell customers not to invest in the metal.
Keep exit plans handy, D-day could be the second week of August, writes Sonali Ranade in Market Notes.
As under-construction properties turn riskier, due to slowing sales, a buyer needs to protect his interest in the property.
In 2012-13, the Centre managed to cut fiscal deficit to 4.9% of GDP, lower than the Budget revised estimates of 5.2%
'Too much energy these three years has been invested in turning the party into an election-winning machine.' 'To recover its mojo, the Modi government needs a more impressive set of economic figures to flaunt,' says Shekhar Gupta.
States' demand of compensation from Centre for loss of tax revenue not on agenda.
But lower growth numbers in the quarters to come may not mean renewed weakness in the economy at the ground level, says Pranjul Bhandari.
Top management of firms should be summoned for a few specified reasons and after written justification at a senior level.
The new national income numbers produced by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have elicited two kinds of reaction.
Greece awoke with a political hangover on Thursday after parliament approved a stringent bailout programme, thanks to the votes of the pro-European opposition, amid the worst protest violence this year.
India's fiscal deficit trends are a bit like an alcoholic trying, unsuccessfully, to reform. Virtue does not last for too long, says Shankar Acharya.
Preparing legal framework to protect states from revenue loss.
Make in India has few advantages and some disadvatnages too.
Ishan Bakshi studies the Budgets of six states, their expenditure priorities and outlays to understand the trend.
The Economic Survey was tabled in the Parliament on Friday.
A raise in the I-T exemption limit has been sought by many.
Incentives for industries have been rolled back and teachers have gone without salary for months as the state grapples with the after-effects of the ban
Following is the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 73rd Independence Day.
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If we can come up with ways of sharing property rights on the internet, why not do something similar in urban spaces, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
While the tax holiday for the factory coming to an end might be a factor, many say the business model of Microsoft (which acquired Nokia's handset division last year), as well as freebies offered by the Vietnamese government, might also have played a role.
It is pegged at 6.8-8% by various economists, as compared to 6.7%.
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