The CDS will be a four-star general and his salary will be equivalent to that of service chiefs.
Gandhi was the executive director at the Reserve Bank of India before being promoted to deputy governor post.
State-owned companies have been set stiff targets to increase accountability as they get ready for divestment. Nikunj Ohri explains why meeting them will be challenging.
The Rail Land Development Authority has invited online bids from private players to redevelop the station into an integrated commercial, retail, and hospitality hub.
For instance, the size of a central ministry's annual outlay should ideally be a key factor in determining the number of people who need to be employed by it.
Banks asked to maintain record of cash being ferried in these vehicles all the time
In 2009, FinMin proposed to move regulators' reserves into public account. These accounts were finally opened in 2013-14. However, no funds have been deposited in it so far.
The ministry's year-end review is silent on the continued occupation by Chinese troops of territory that India has always claimed and patrolled.
The best available recourse to keep the defence sector healthy, is to source most of our requirement within the country so that procurement outlays under both the Revenue and Capital heads flow within the country, recommends says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
The annual expenditure on contractual manpower in 2012-13 was about Rs 300 crore.
Experts explained that normally, the IT department sends notices to only those people whose yearly credit card transactions cross Rs 200,000.
Congress leaders have hit out at the BJP governments at the Centre and in Karnataka, questioning its timing.
Altogether 159 cows, which were kept in a cattle shelter (Gaushala) have died since May 14 last, the officials said.
For 2015-16, the planned outlay for the department was Rs 2,568 crore.
Dr Tamilisai Soundarajan has nominated Prime Minister Modi for launching the world's largest healthcare scheme Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana - 'Ayushman Bharat' and also appealed to people to join her in nominating the prime minister.
This dynamic fare component shall not be admissible in cases where a non-entitled government servant travels by air and claims reimbursement for the entitled class of Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto trains
India's spending on space research almost tripled from Rs 4,163 crore in 2009-2010 to Rs 11,538 crore in 2018-2019.
Over the past six months Rajasthan has introduced some of India's most radical free-market labour, land and welfare reform.
The government is likely to infuse additional capital of Rs 20,000 crore in the public sector banks next financial year to meet Basel III global capital risk norms.
Chief statistician T C A Anant says growth figure might go up once indirect tax data is fully in, however, he agrees that private expenditure is yet to pick up
The fiscal deficit in current fiscal has been estimated at 3.9%.
Complaints were received by the Commission on possibilities of inducement of electors by distributing cash and gifts in innovative forms like tokens, prepaid phone recharge coupons, newspaper subscription, milk tokens.
This will violate the time-honoured convention that a government elected for a five-year tenure presents only five full Budgets, but the NDA government will no doubt present it as yet another initiative of Mr Modi.
'There is a time for lowering one's expectations of the economy -- and therefore not trying to do too much in the Budget,' notes T N Ninan.
The Cabinet on Thursday approved a proposal to create an additional 1,349 additional posts in the Indian Revenue Services cadre and 19,402 in the non-IRS cadres.
The Centre will now reimburse full train fare incurred by its employees on purchase of tickets for their children aged between five and 12 years.
Vadra's anticipatory bail application is likely to be heard by the court on Saturday.
The infrastructure spending target for 2020-25 was revised because of additional and amended data provided by central ministries, state governments since the release of the summary NIP Report in December 2019 when it was pegged at Rs 100 trillion.
Before Budget, departments see outlays shaved.
The SC's dismissal of the Income-Tax department's plea that companies cannot claim deductions against tax liabilities on account of losses due to foreign exchange rate fluctuations legitimises the way companies were accounting for these forex losses.
This will be the first time since the presentation of independent India's first budget on November 26, 1947, that the documents containing income and expenditure statement of the Union government along with finance bill, detailing new tax and other measures for the new financial year, will not be physically printed.
Government tenders could soon go to bidders who promise to train highest number of youth.
The main responsibility for producing the Budget rests with the Budget Division of the Department of Economic Affairs in the finance ministry
'It is entering growth territory on a month-on-month basis.'
Arvind Mayaram, who was shunted from Finance Ministry to Tourism only a fortnight ago, has now been transferred as secretary in minority affairs ministry even before he took charge of his new post.
The entire Budget-making exercise will be advanced by 3-4 weeks so as to complete the legislative part of financial business before April 1, the start of a financial year
This was the one Budget that required radical departures on all these fronts, when it had none, asserts, Shreekant Sambrani.
There will also be a ban on purchase of new vehicles, the Finance Ministry said in a direction to all ministries and departments.
Mandatory prescription of generic names is not a complete solution. Rather, in the absence of a range of approaches, it could mean passing the choice of selecting a drug from a doctor to a pharmacist, says Chandrakant Lahariya.
