Petrol prices on Thursday crossed Rs 73 a litre mark, the highest level since the BJP government came to power in 2014, while diesel touched a record high of Rs 64.11 a litre.
The conversion from ownership to taxi hiring services is gaining ground.
Making employers provide creche facilities would be a powerful incentive for women to stay on in the workforce rather than drop out owing to the pressure of child care, says Shuma Raha.
The proportion in which a joint home loan is taken is important.
The first quarter of 2018 saw infrastructure and real estate drive investment worth close to $8 billion across 180 deals
Businesses coming to terms with Ind-AS (Indian Accounting Standards) implementation, GST can do without further uncertainty and costs, say N Sundaresha Subramanian & Sudipto Dey.
Revised tax forms will be simple; stress on foreign travel and assets has been reduced
'I can snap my fingers and get 1,000 people overnight, but I can't guarantee that they will develop because there has been zero change in education in the country in the last nine years.'
Bharti Airtel had planned to charge separately for internet-based voice calls provided by Skype.
100 per cent FDI is now allowed in almost every major TV distribution form (direct-to-home, cable, headend-in-the-sky, multi-system operators) and 49 per cent in TV news.
The insurance sector is seeking clarity on the 'Indian management control' clause.
At present, 70% of the mobile handsets sold in India are imported.
Companies' annual reports can hide as much as they reveal. Investors can get early warning signals of wrongdoing by frequently speaking to other stakeholders.
Sensex is trading firm; FMCG, real estate going strong.
Soon, one will be able to pay utility bills at the local supermarket, while buying groceries, with the RBI allowing the setting up of payment banks.
With the help of technology and a billion citizens, two engineering students are on a mission to make India clean.
Consumer loans or personal continue to record the highest fraud incidence.
The government has to cover a lot of ground if it wants to achieve the target of generating 10 million new jobs in the sector over the next three years, says Shyamal Majumdar.
Constantly evolving rules and anomalies over tax treatment have constrained corporate programmes in the first year that the government's CSR mandate has been in force.
In the past couple of years, Saregama has redefined itself into a 'content IP company'.
Fixed-line Internet is consistent and translates into a better experience for users.
The GST bill's draft says tax would be levied on Maximum Retail Price
With its free listing of goods and services, Facebook could disrupt the paid model adopted by classified players in the country, say Ayan Pramanik and Raghu Krishnan.
In the previous Budget, the government had come out with a similar scheme.
The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigations Team on black money has also proposed that holding more than Rs 15 lakh in cash be made illegal for individuals and for companies, report Tinesh Bhasin and Sanjay Kumar Singh.
It will bring down the cost of a second house because of tax benefits and price appreciation
India Inc is facing threat from non-traditional sources.
'A broad-based revival of private sector investment was likely in 2018-19 after businesses had successfully made the switch to the GST.'
Although the markets could see a knee-jerk reaction, they rule out a sharp fall.
The states have unanimously pitched for sole administrative powers to carry out assessment, scrutiny and enforcement for entities up to an annual turnover of Rs 1.5 crore.
The Centre and states are likely to settle for this threshold.
Against estimates of black wealth of Rs 300 lakh crore and black money in cash of Rs 3 lakh crore by economist Arun Kumar, the PMGKY numbers fall short by a huge margin.
Has the rail ministry taken care to draw up a transparent framework?
Aimed at creating a single tax for goods and services across the country, government on Friday introduced the long-pending GST Bill in the Lok Sabha for roll-out of the new regime from April 2016 subsuming various levies like entry tax and octroi.
Notification, FAQs likely after FM Jaitley returns from the US
If you were deputed abroad, filing income tax can be tricky.
Unlike Income Tax, service tax is not charged automatically.
Mythological and historical shows are lapped up not just by the young, but equally by grown men and women.
SBI-led consortium of 17 banks had a total exposure of about Rs 6,500 cr to Kingfisher Airlines.
