Senior Indian Administrative Services officer Ashok Singhvi, who is the Principal Secretary (Mines) in Rajasthan, was arrested in the wee hours of Thursday by the state Anti Corruption Bureau in the eighth arrest in a bribery case involving clearance for reopening of six closed mines of a miner.
The Parthasarathy Shome committee gives its second reform report to finance ministry.
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To get what it thinks are its dues, its brass have directed; construction, realty, renting of property, personnel supply, security & goods transport among those under lens
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
'The IAS officers are after the rich people, the IRS officers are after the middle class and the IPS officers are after the poor. This is the new varnashrama created by the bureaucracy.'
Indirect tax collections saw only a meagre 3.5 per cent growth, as mop-up from Customs fell sharply on account of a drop in imports.
The ambiguity arose after notices were sent to lenders for non-payment of service tax under the pre-GST regime
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday presented the Union Budget for 2016-17.
A firm, which managed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's hugely successful Lok Sabha campaign, has come under the scanner of revenue authorities for alleged service tax evasion.
Tina, 22, a graduate from Delhi's Lady Shri Ram College, topped the 2015 civil services exam securing 1,063 marks (52.49 per cent) out of a total of 2,025-comprising 1,750 of main and 275 of interview.
The delivery of Freedom251 smartphones is expected to start in April after which the company will start the second round of bookings.
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, who is now administering Delhi after President's rule was imposed, on Tuesday made it clear that none of the decisions and initiatives taken by the Aam Aadmi Party government will be scrapped, including the 50 per cent subsidy on power tariff.
While Arun Jaitley remains part of the decision making process, Piyush Goyal, who was given additional charge on May 14, attends cabinet meetings and takes the day-to-day decisions.
Top management of firms should be summoned for a few specified reasons and after written justification at a senior level.
Pushing people to litigation is a major source of tax uncertainty.
Govt looks at more taxes, dividends to meet deficit target.
Chartered accountant and commentator M R Venkatesh on why the GST Bill will cost the BJP dear.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India, is locked in a legal battle with the Service Tax (ST) department, which has demanded an amount of Rs 536 crore (approx) as taxes on cricket board's earnings from royalty and media rights in the last one decade.
Also on the anvil is abolition of distinction between Plan and non-Plan expenditure and replacing it with capital and revenue expenditure
A decision by P Chidambaram in his last days as finance minister has annoyed the revenue department.
The GST Council on Saturday is expected to extend the date for IGST exemption and cess on imports
Stocks to watch: BHEL, L&T, IRB Infra and Suzlon
ONGC is the country's most profitable PSU.
The Maharashtra government is firm on not letting dance bars reopen, Home Minister R R Patil informed the state Assembly on Friday, and indicated that it will bring in an ordinance soon to ensure that the dance bar ban continues.
Oil explorer ONGC again emerged as the highest profit-making PSU of the country during 2012-13 while telecom major BSNL turned out to be the biggest loss-making enterprise, says the Economic Survey.
Despite the indisputable facts demonetisation and its pain is yet to have a quantifiable political backlash. But this is provided the government can limit the damage to the next one week.
Clean energy cess to hike cost for power sector.
Ironically, West Bengal, which has been seeking a postponement of the GST roll-out, has fared better among most other states.
The budgetary allocation for the sector is Rs 60,908.22 crore, with Rs 6,400 crore earmarked for the centre's flagship health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY).
'GST is imperative for India's success.' 'Without GST India will be a less competitive country.'
The views are stunning, the skies are blue, the forests are lush and, wonder of wonders, thanks to the discipline of the tea estate, even man isn't vile, discover Renu Bahal Wadhwa and T C A Srinivasa Raghavan after a trip to Kerala's breathtakingly beautiful hill retreat.
A tax reforms panel, headed by finance minister's advisor Parthasarathi Shome, is considering moving away from setting fixed tax-collection targets and linking these with the changing economic scenario during the year.
Sharma says efforts on to bring dissenting ministries on board eBiz platform.
Modi said officers must fix clear targets to improve the country's tax administration by 2022, the 75th anniversary of Independence.
There will be a review of employee compensation arrangement in the light of the new rules.
DIAL is a joint venture consortium of GMR Group, Airports Authority of India, Fraport and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad.
Steps such as safeguard duty in the works to plug the route
Meru Cabs, one of the first radio taxi services in the country, is contesting service tax notices sent to it since 2010 in the Bombay High Court.
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