The Ashok Chawla committee on pricing and allocation of scarce natural resources has proposed that the downstream oil regulator Petroleum…
The prospects of a bountiful farm output following the forecast of normal monsoon this year may not provide any relief…
Oil prices have soared in the last few weeks. It is estimated that a price of $120 a barrel for…
The government has deferred the proposed disinvestment offer of Hindustan Copper to the later half of the fiscal in the…
The Ashok Chawla committee?s view that auctioning should begin right at the exploration stage with respect to allocation of mineral…
The finance ministry will create the proposed infrastructure debt funds out of money raised through tax-free infrastructure bonds and external…
The government and financial sector regulators such as RBI, Sebi and Irda will draw up the outline of the proposed…
The finance ministry is planning to give infrastructure status to several businesses which currently enjoy tax breaks without the infrastructure…
State-owned Indian Infrastructure Finance Company ltd. expects to get the government?s nod to launch credit enhancement product by May end,…
Some of the SEZ developers have decided to move court against what the Budget 2011 decision to bring them and…
The domestic law regarding capital gains tax will prevail in case of foreign retail investors putting in their money in…
India’s trouble over the oil payments to Iran are unlikely to end soon. An inter-ministerial meeting on Thursday failed to…
The much-touted global accounting system based on the International Financial Reporting Standards is not acceptable to the Indian taxman. ?For…
Tax collection for 2010-11 would exceed even the revised estimates announced in the recent Budget, revenue secretary Sunil Mitra told…
The finance ministry is looking at routing its payment for Iranian oil through a European bank which is ?more neutral?…
The government is planning to limit diesel subsidy at a pre-fixed level and allow retailers IOC, HPCL and BPCL to…
Taking a cue from Canada, Australia and the US, which have successfully used tax policy to attract investors into the…
Former finance secretary Ashok Chawla, who is heading a panel that is reviewing the policy for allocation and pricing of…
