In the second half of April, the discount on gold came down to $3 an ounce.
No mention of cab aggregators in GST bills
The government on Monday reduced import tariff value on gold to $388 per 10 grams and on silver to $540 per kg, following global price trends.
This shows the strict pattern of civil services examination conducted by the UPSC for selecting country's top bureaucrats
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money has decided to create a rich national database where multiple agencies probing tax and financial crimes will pool in vital classified information to be shared for seamless investigation.
The opposition parties vehemently criticised the new 'one nation, one tax' system having four different rates instead of a single rate adopted in some countries including the UK and Singapore.
Apart from Modi, Jaggi Vasudev to address 2-day tax officers' conference
Bihar Director General of Police P K Thakur on Monday said that the ongoing investigation into the killing of a senior journalist in Siwan district had suggested that a 'supari' (contract) had been given to kill him.
The Election Commission gets cracking on caste, money and muscle power well ahead of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections.
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 government on Thursday slashed the import tariff value on gold for the second straight day to $ 414 per 10 grams and silver to $672 per kg, in line with weak global prices of the precious metals.
The government on Friday reduced the import tariff value on gold and silver to $420 per 10 grams and $645 per kg, respectively, taking cues from firm global prices.
The number of smartphones booked during the initial hours was 30,000.
FY16 GDP growth was seen at 7.5%, against 8.1-8.5% earlier.
States' demand for 5 years and Constitutional provision ruled out
This is the Centre's highest-ever budgeted capital outlay.
The growth in imports was led by product categories such as diagnostic items, ultra-sonogram machines, MRI and ECG apparatus, syringes with needles, suture needles, digital thermometers, malaria diagnostic kits, and hearing aids.
To help compare numbers better, FinMin might retain the interim Budget Estimates with the new ones.
The governments of Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan want a lower limit of Rs 100,00,00 gross annual turnover.
Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki has sought response from Bhupinder Singh Hooda government on the Bharatiya Janata Party's demand for cancellation of recent controversial appointments by the chief minister.
Despite finance minister's assurance, tax officials seem reluctant to take steps for tackling issues at stake
On Thursday, violent mobs went on the rampage in the Nagaland capital vandalising and setting on fire government offices and vehicles, prompting deployment of five columns of army to bring the situation under control.
Only three or four tonnes is estimated to have been mobilised under the scheme.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has slapped a Rs 5,500-crore show-cause notice on Adani group for alleged over-valuation of capital equipment imports.
The customs duty from gold imports could be approximately Rs 8,000 crore, about less than half of what was collected a year ago.
Kumaraswamy, who also holds the finance portfolio, said he has limited the loan amount to Rs 2 lakh, as it was 'not right' to waiver higher value crop loan.
Drugs under exemption make up roughly 95 per cent of the antiretrovirals used by India's AIDS patients
O Paneerselvam did not even sit in Jayalalithaa's office chamber and left her seat vacant in the assembly. This time Amma is not coming back and he has a large number of challenges awaiting him.
The banks used for the fraud include ING Vysya Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank, Dhanlaxmi Bank, YES Bank and DCB Bank.
Despite crude comfort, heavy spending cuts needed to offset Rs 80k-cr revenue shortfall
FBT was an unpopular tax and withdrawn before the General Elections in 2009
India will raise its import duty on sugar to 40 percent from 15 percent, as the government tries to revive business at mills that owe farmers around $1.84 billion, the food minister said on Monday.
WGC expects demand to revive in H2 on surplus monsoon rains
The Finance Ministry has started preparations for Budget 2014-15 by asking different central ministries and departments to come out with their estimates of receipts as well as expenditure for the next financial year.
'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.'
The present tax revenue of the state is Rs 120,000 crore.
Many consumer good companies say they will pass on the benefits to consumers, which will bring down prices.
Senior New Delhi-based journalist R Rajagopalan, who has been closely following the Union Budget preparations since 1977, lifts the veil off India's most secretive operation.
The government announced several incentives in the five-year Foreign Trade Policy.
A Congress MLA in Bihar has landed in trouble after a sting operation caught the legislator on camera purportedly offering liquor to his guests, despite total prohibition imposed in the state by the Nitish Kumar government.
