The government has decided to push ahead with the long-awaited insurance bill by introducing it in the Rajya Sabha on…
The country?s biggest tax reform in recent years?the rollout of goods and services tax or GST?has run into a big…
With most of corporate India facing a credit crisis and battling the twin problems of slackening demand and falling prices…
Setting the stage for another stimulus package, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met the three-member Investment Commission led by Ratan Tata…
Special economic zones may be headed for some more tax trouble. With states continuing to protest the stamp duty exemption…
Dark musty caves and bat-infested temples in sleepy forgotten towns can hardly ever translate into poetry. But Vikramajit Ram makes…
There?s some relief for multinational banks plagued by hefty losses. Thanks to the turmoil in financial markets?their India operations may…
While the UPA government scrambles to ensure that the Navy and the Coast Guard get their act together on protecting…
For P Chidambaram, shifting from his office as finance minister in the North Block to his new office as home…
Key economic reforms and an overhaul of the country?s decades-old tax laws will form the core of finance minister P…
The open waters along Mumbai?s coast used by terrorists to sneak into the city would have been much safer if…
With the recent meltdown in equity markets exposing the downside of the insurance industry?s favourite product in recent years?unit-linked insurance…
While the Indian economy may be able to sail through the global financial crisis with a healthy 7.8% growth in…
In what is literally a shot in the arms for the likes of Olympic medal winners Abhinav Bindra and Rajyavardhan…
With the country’s exports having shrunk by 15% in October, the duty drawback committee, constituted by the finance ministry, is…
Exports have shrunk. Indirect tax collections have seen negative growth. Now, in yet another sign that the global economic slowdown…
In a move that will lessen the teething troubles of all the 20 states on board the New Pension Scheme,…
The exchequer is starting to feel the heat of the meltdown. As on October 31, collections from the securities transaction…
