High level engagement like the 2+2 dialogue between the two countries has once again thrown focus on the importance that both sides attach to the relationship.
The external members are Indian Statistical Institute professor Chetan Ghate, Delhi School of Economics Director Pami Dua and Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad professor Ravindra H Dholakia.
Around 76.48 lakh new subscribers were added to social security schemes of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) from September 2017 to January 2019, the data showed.
India is clearly an important geopolitical alternative to China as far as the US is concerned, and it’s important that the relations between the two countries continue to get stronger, he also told
The government on Friday said that it has exceeded the divestment target for FY19 by Rs 5,000 crore as the receipts have touched projected Rs 85,000 crore.
EPCG is an export promotion scheme under which an exporter can import certain amount of capital goods at zero duty for upgrading technology related with exports.
The move was aimed at giving relief to exporters as they do not have to pay IGST at the initial point itself. In the GST regime, they have to pay the indirect tax and then seek refund, which is a cumb
Garg’s clarification comes a week after 108 economists from around the world accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration of deliberately revising or withholding statistics that show his
Although the Pakistan government has secured a breathing space from Saudi Arabian and the UAE loans, an IMF programme is essential to unlock access to resources from other multilateral lenders like th
Against the earlier expectation of two rate hikes this year, the Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged and also hinted at maintaining the status quo, going ahead in 2019, in its latest outing.
Fitch Ratings Friday cut India's economic growth forecast for the next financial year starting April 1, to 6.8 per cent from its previous estimate of 7 per cent, on weaker than expected momentum in th
Teetering economic activity is already pressuring the central bank to deliver on expectations for a back-to-back interest rate cut in April. And Prime Minister Narendra Modi must avoid economic turbul
Meanwhile, Bangladesh will give its farmers free fertiliser and seeds to boost cultivation of a type of rice that requires less irrigation, the country's agriculture minister said on Thursday.
As GST revenue collections consistently missed the estimates by a wide margin, the government in the interim budget brought down FY19 estimate for central GST by Rs 1 lakh crore.
The president’s comments dim hopes that round-the-clock trade negotiations between the world’s two biggest economies could lead to them removing the roughly $360 billion in tariffs they’ve impos
Transfers of assorted subsidies and sops to the beneficiaries through the direct benefit transfer (DBT) route stood at Rs 2.8 lakh crore so far in FY19, 47% higher than such transfers during the whole
The Centre spends some Rs 70,000 crore annually to heavily subsidise fertiliser for farmers, but two-third of the beneficiaries have no idea that they receive the largesse, a survey has found. About 9
As Congress and other Opposition parties are raking up the issue of job losses, electronics and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said that in the past five years, 8.73 lakh new jobs have b
Confronting the Opposition over the jobs crisis barb, the minister challenged the Congress to show just how many jobs had been generated in their tenure.
Misri said that another welcome area for the Chinese investment would be the hospitality sector, such as restaurants that cater to the Chinese palate, which in turn would be an attractive factor for C
The successful experiment of GST Council, which is a constitutional body for making recommendations to the union and state governments on issues related to goods and service tax, needs to be replicate
