All day, there has been talk after hearing Piyush Goyal's budget speech: where will the government get the money from to bankroll all its ambitious election promises? With four buckets turning into major recipients of government largesse - farm and rural economy, middle class, realty and housing and the unorganised sector - the gover...
On Thursday, the country's third largest city, Chicago, was likely to break its 1985 record low of minus 32 degrees Celsius, according to meteorologists. The city has already passed the record low for January 31, the BBC reported....
Pointing out that the Interim Budget announced on Friday is "silent" on jobs and education, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram ridiculed the Modi government saying all it understands is "pakodanomics". ...
1. Within 2 years, tax assessment will be done electronically 2. IT returns processing in just 24 hours 3. Minimum 14% revenue of GST to states by Central government 4. Custom duty abolished from 36 Capital Goods ...
Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday announced a 2 per cent interest subvention for the MSME sector and Rs 3,000 monthly pension for workers in the unorganised sector, both of which were hit hard by the demonetisation....
In a bonanza for the country's middle class in an election year, the government on Friday proposed various tax sops including tax exemption for individual annual incomes of Rs 5 lakh, all of which add up to taking individual incomes up to Rs 9.5 lakhs outside the tax net. ...
The Centre told the Supreme Court on Friday that a high level Selection Committee will be meeting to decide on a new Central Bureau of Investigation Director later in the day....
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said the government has broken the "back of back-breaking inflation" as it was able to bring the average rate of inflation down to 4.6 per cent....
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday announced direct annual income support of Rs 6,000 to farmers with land holding of two hectares. ...
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will hold a second summit in the Vietnamese coastal city of Da Nang by February end, a senior administration official said here on Friday. ...
