We have a government with an extremely weak economic team advising a PM who hardly pays attention to their thoughts, says Jayanta Roy.
From the 'khiladi' brand of movies rocking his boat to a love for starring in biopics and scripts inspired by true stories to headlining endless remakes of South Indian hits, there's a pattern to the man and his methods.
Dino shares a throwback pic... Vijay dubs.... Rannvijay shoots in a jungle...
Days after attending his Kabir Singh co-star Kiara Advani's wedding in Rajasthan, Shahid Kapoor got back to work.
It was better to first build a single-rate GST with a low rate, achieve full mastery of this, and then consider more complex possibilities such as high rates and multiple rates.
The buyback, if successful, will surpass RIL's 2012 share repurchase of Rs 10,400 cr
Shahid Kapoor packs in a lot of blood and gore in his new film, Bloody Daddy, directed by Ali Abbas Zafar (Tiger Zinda Hai, Gunday).
After 17 tumultuous years, a nationwide Goods and Services Tax (GST) will rollout from midnight of June 30, overhauling India's convoluted indirect taxation system and unifying the $2 trillion economy with 1.3 billion people into a single market.
How Bollywood celebrated 75 years of India's Independence.
'I am not a part of any group or politics.' 'I work with everyone.' 'I have worked with Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn.' 'None of the Khans have ever taken me in their films.'
A well-functioning GST will enhance tax compliance and boost growth: IMF
What if Lagaan was remade today? Sukanya Verma picks actors best suited for the key roles.
The old India was economically fragmented. New India will create one tax, one market, one nation, said Jaitley.
What happens when a talented group of Bollywood actors get together? They give us entertainment, entertainment, entertainment.
The shift from 'one country, one tax' to four tax rates could dilute possible gains on GDP, warns T N Ninan.
A more effective promotion of domestic manufacturing and mining could significantly reduce the trade deficit in key sectors, says T N Ninan.
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.
While markets are upbeat over the government decision to nearly double the price of domestically produced natural gas, industry wants it to clearly lay the roadmap for free market pricing regime.
Experts will give their inputs for Budget.
After making Bombay Talkies and Lust Stories, Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap give us Ghost Stories, a film consisting of four short stories. It will stream on Netflix from January 1. A special screening was held in Mumbai, and the cast members made sure to attend.
Suggestions made by the different experts have been noted and would be forwarded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The ones who came more recently were clutching the green cards that gave them an escape hatch through which to return to green pastures: Arvind Panagariya, Raghuram Rajan, Arvind Subramanian and other perfectly honourable gentlemen like them, points out T N Ninan.
Invests $50 mn in 11 entities in just over a year, commits $25 mn more; prefers putting money in firms trying to solve India-specific problems
Does India's most valued company give hope to its investors that they, too, might drive a Jaguar some day?
Starting April 1, a non-executive director of 75 years or more can be appointed or re-appointed only by way of a special resolution, which requires 75 per cent 'for' votes.
Listening -- really listening -- to advisers in the government and outside would help. India has plenty of wise economists who have worked within the bureaucracy during previous crises, points out Rahul Jacob.
Ahead of his government's first full year budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sought ideas from economists to attract investments, create jobs and finance infrastructure to put India back on high growth path.
One hopes that the government will act on the Kelkar panel recommendations.
Reform ideas do not occur overnight and evolve over the years.
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday approved the biggest tax reform since Independence.
While the PM sees zero tax on long-term capital gains and dividend income as unfair since the beneficiaries are not poor, he is silent on the fact that rich farmers too don't pay taxes, since farm income is tax-free, a loophole exploited by many netas and babus, says Debashis Basu.
'We are not able to manufacture even low-end products as cheaply as China.' 'We are not buying Chinese goods today out of any love for China.'
'Defence does not new 'planning commissions'; it needs an implementation commission.'
How do we get back to higher trend growth? The heart of the problem lies in private corporate investment, recommends Ajay Shah.
'While the GST is structured to be an all-encompassing tax and to create a vastly expanded digital network of recorded transactions, no one knows how traders long used to avoiding taxes will apply their ingenuity,' says T N Ninan.
Bhuj: The Pride of India: Pearl Harbour on a dollar store budget, notes Sukanya Verma.
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