The remarks come at a time when Maharashtra is reeling under an agrarian crisis with 124 farmers committing suicide in the state since January this year.
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At present, 100 days of work is provided to rural job card holders under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
The biggest problem is that those with Aadhaar numbers aren't coming forward for seeding these with bank accounts.
GST rates would depend upon whether the commodity is used by a rich person or a common man
Third party claims are adjudicated by the constituted tribunals.
Dharmendra Kumar Singh says the Bihar chief minister may be fighting a losing battle.
Yet, no bank has been taken to task for its actions, says Harsh Roongta.
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The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday took up the four bills related to the GST, with the Opposition urging the government to insulate taxpayers from harassment and questioning how the new regime was "ideal" when 40 per cent of the revenue base of the GDP was kept out of its purview.
Former rural development minister Jairam Ramesh tells Sanjeeb Mukherjee that the Ordinance to amend the land acquisition Act (2013) opens the door for forcible acquisition and undermines the spirit and the substance of the legislation.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said for the first time fiscal deficit target will be met without budgetary cuts.
The Aam Aadmi Party government's first 100 days in power in Delhi have been a mixed bag
Govt unlikely to cut excise duties to compensate for higher global prices, say analysts.
Faced with the growing number of acid attacks on women, government is planning to categorise such cases as heinous crimes and fix a time-frame for investigation and trial for speedy justice.
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The Finance Ministry on Thursday expressed hope that domestic diesel prices will soon become market linked in the backdrop of softening global crude oil rates.
Rahul said the poor, the labourers and the middle class are being sacrificed in the demonetisation 'yajna' for the benefit of the "super-rich families" of the nation.
Because of lack of pilots, airlines have been forced to cancel their flights and rework their schedules, constraining cash flows and delaying vendor payments.
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Facing stiff resistance on the Land Acquisition Bill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the government will not re-promulgate the Ordinance which expires on Monday and declared readiness to accept any suggestions to benefit the farmers in the pending bill on it.
Operating margins decline to 10.3% in March quarter on one-time payouts but may recover to 12% in FY2015.
Being mandatory, these recommendations will have to be immediately built into the Budget for 2015-16.
The combined entity is set to be the third largest bank in India, behind State Bank of India and ICICI Bank.
One teenager died in police firing last May. Another teenager is paralysed waist down. Both families have been ignored by the political establishment, including the AIMIM.
The deal will build the most significant media platform in the world.
R-Power, Essar could be hit as state mulls benefit-sharing levy for ecology loss.
Government employees enjoy a pay revision every five years, unlike once in every 10 years for central government employees, and draw relatively higher salary.
Accusing the Biju Janata Dal government in Odisha of hijacking the credit for the work done through the welfare programmes of UPA government, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday claimed the state is ruled by "mine mafia" and not by the people's representatives.
The GST Bill, seen as single biggest tax reform in a long time, needs to be ratified by at least 15 state legislatures before the President can notify the GST Council which will decide the new tax rate and other issues
HCL Technologies and Infosys should benefit more than TCS and Wipro
With the advent of many online insurance web aggregators, buying an appropriate travel insurance plan to match your tour package has never been so trouble-free.
The time is ripe for a merger of eight fund houses indirectly owned and controlled by the central government, says N Sundaresha Subramanian.
It is not just in the film industry. It happens everywhere, she said.
While saving tax is important and certainly welcome, it's lot more important to ensure each instrument actually does the job it was originally meant to, says Manish Shah.
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The Railways has also reduced flexi-fares from 1.5 to 1.4 times the base ticket fare in 101 trains
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