Govt must introduce automated investment scheme for poor.
Why MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy and his party, the BJP, are angry with Pappu Yadav.
Stating that pushing GDP growth, which has slipped to 5-year low of 6.8 per cent in 2018-19, is the top priority, President Ramnath Kovind said Modi govt will bring more reforms and raise farm investments to boost growth.
There's the excitement of watching minor people commit major crimes and watching how that becomes their second nature, almost. Just when you think the show is extending outwards, it implodes. And with the ethical hinges off totally, you, the viewer, wouldn't know quite how to react, observes Sreehari Nair.
Here are the key highlights of the Interim Budget 2019-20 presented by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal in the Lok Sabha on Friday.
Salil Dhawan reveals the MFs that have not only performed well in the past but have a promising outlook for the future too.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Replying to the debate in Rajya Sabha on a motion thanking the president for his address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament, he said for the first time in decades, people of Jammu and Kashmir got benefits of reservation.
BJP has demanded a regulator for real estate sector to safeguard common man, in the upcoming Budget.
It was widely expected that this time around, the government would be less likely to initiate fresh reforms and rather loosen its belt a little to give various segments of the economy, especially the multitudes that truly constitute India, something to smile about, says Sudip Bandyopadhyay.
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Congress president Rahul Gandhi said the Nyay plan is a game changer and that the scheme is "fiscally perfectly doable" and will not be implemented rashly.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Kumaraswamy met representatives of farmers groups and progressive peasants to discuss the problems faced by them.
Why are investors gung-ho about State Bank? asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'As the Aisi Taisi Democracy folk so aptly put it, time to choose who will s**** us most', says Geetanjali Krishna.
Six months after the lockdown was imposed, two dozen migrant workers were interviewed across five villages of Prayagraj. As the economy opens up, most of them are either hunting for a job or desperately waiting for a phone call from their previous employers. But the bruises of the lockdown are still fresh in their minds. Somesh Jha reports.
'This market is very expensive in some pockets, dirt cheap in some, and the belly of the market is reasonably valued.'
All these measures will revitalise the manufacturing sector, which has been in doldrums.
Licence winners are expected to be announced by the first quarter of 2014.
The government on Tuesday extended the deadline for filing income tax and GST returns, raised the threshold of default that could trigger insolvency of a company, and waived charges on cash withdrawals from ATMs of other banks as a precursor to a broader stimulus package for the economy distressed by the coronavirus outbreak.
'You cannot start an MSME again.' 'It is not like a Yes Bank that someone comes and saves the bank.' Once the shutter is down for an MSME, nobody will come to its rescue.'
PM extended some old schemes and finally said yes to one that was legally mandated for past 2 years.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reviewed the impact of Covid-19 on the Indian economy and a possible second stimulus to boost sectors hit hard by the pandemic. Modi held discussions with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as the pandemic hit sectors from small industries to the aviation sector hard with millions of jobs at stake.
Lower interest rate, lower stamp duty and higher chances of loan application being accepted give women an edge over men when fulfilling purchase of their dream home
ETFs may be an option if you are considering only large-cap funds, experts tell Tinesh Bhasin.
After assuming power in 2014 with a full majority of its own, the BJP-led NDA government started an ambitious process of reforming labour laws in the form of codes aimed at making the framework less cumbersome with a variety of alterations. It had planned four codes each for industrial relations, wages, social security and welfare, and occupational safety, health and working conditions. To this end, 35 central labour laws were to be converted into four codes that would have had the virtue of streamlining labour relations. But none of the proposed code Bills could be converted into a law principally because neither trade unions nor industry representatives came on board. They hold the key to India's low-growth-high unemployment paradigm but the government may struggle to push them through this time as well. Somesh Jha explains why
Sahara chief Subrata Roy may not come out clean in the biggest ever investment fraud that he allegedly did few years ago.
Do keep the tax impact and exit load in mind before you take a decision to sell, says Vishal Dhawan.
The focus is likely to be on consolidation and improvement of existing rural-centric programmes to ensure their completion ahead of the next general elections in 2019, rather than announcement of new schemes. Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Arup Roychoudhury report.
Tax Guru Anil Rego answers your personal income tax queries.
Demonetisation could see anywhere between Rs 8 and 12 lakh crore coming into the banking system in the next few weeks.
'I wrote to the PMO to know who has written the slogan. but did not get an answer.'
'...Rs 137 lakh crores of people's money?' 'It is not the government's money, it is people's money.'
'He is posting that someone who took the metro (during a medical emergency) got saved.' 'Let him try doing the same. He cannot peddle nonsense just because he is a star.'
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
The Tata group's tryst with mobile services, with either CDMA or GSM technology, did not really fly, forcing it to close operations and write off losses. Now the group is back in the big game, this time straddling the telecom equipment, network and technology space in India as well as the global market. To this end, it is leveraging the opportunities that flow from 5G technology through open radio access network, or O-RAN. Recently, the Tata Sons' subsidiary Panatone Finvest acquired 43.3 per cent in Bengaluru-based telecom equipment manufacturer Tejas Network for Rs 1,850 crore and announced it would buy another 26 per cent of the voting capital through an open offer.
Keeping patience while making a financial decision is one thing millennials need to learn, says Naval Goel.
The CJI said that absence of timely legal help to poor affects credibility.
Jaitley's fifth Budget has provided little relief to the middle class.
