Economy - general

Government takes steps to address potential drought

01 Aug 2012

NRIs, private trusts exempted from e-filing of returns; date extended for others

31 Jul 2012

Drought likely to delay fuel price hike: Montek

31 Jul 2012

Nasscom welcomes review of IT sector tax laws

31 Jul 2012

World's biggest power outage hits 20 states

31 Jul 2012

The collapse has left over half of the country or 600 million people without power, in one of the biggest-ever blackouts in the world

Protests end four SEZ projects in Maharashtra

31 Jul 2012

RBI leaves key rates untouched amid inflation woes

31 Jul 2012

The RBI  today left key policy rates unchanged for the second consecutive time, retaining the repo rate at 8 per cent and the cash reserve ratio at 4.5 per cent as inflation continues at worrying levels

RBI leaves key rates untouched amid inflation woes

31 Jul 2012

The RBI  today left key policy rates unchanged for the second consecutive time, retaining the repo rate at 8 per cent and the cash reserve ratio at 4.5 per cent as inflation continues at worrying levels

Taxation of portfolio investments by FIIs referred to GAAR panel

30 Jul 2012

North India hit by worst blackout in 10 years

30 Jul 2012

RBI cuts India’s FY’13 GDP growth to 6.5 per cent

30 Jul 2012

The outlook on inflation continues to be marked by a number of upside risks in the near term, despite the significant slowdown in growth, RBI said

PM sets up panel to review taxation of development centres and IT sector

30 Jul 2012

The committee, which is in addition to the GAAR panel, headed by Dr Parthasarathy Shome, will also address concerns on GAAR provisions

Situation better than in 2009: agriculture secretary Ashish Bahuguna

30 Jul 2012

Deficient rains cause for serious concern: Pawar

30 Jul 2012

PM announces Rs300-core relief package for Assam riot victims

28 Jul 2012

Demand for central intervention in Assam

27 Jul 2012

Anand Sharma links market opening to free movement of labour

26 Jul 2012

India among markets highly exposed to euro zone crisis: report

25 Jul 2012

Assam sectarian strife leaves 32 dead, thousand homeless

25 Jul 2012

Assam cut off from rest of India as sectarian strife rages

24 Jul 2012

I-Tax department offers `home visit’ to help people file returns

24 Jul 2012

Government admits monsoons below normal

24 Jul 2012

Food minister KV Thomas admitted today that the situation was a cause for worry and the government will have to initiate measures to check hoarding as deficient rainfall would lead to crop failure.

Inter-ministerial panel to look into direct selling and multi-level marketing

24 Jul 2012

Assocham warns of impact on bottom lines in the absence of 'good signals'

23 Jul 2012

Rural India becoming the epicentre of growth: HUL chief

23 Jul 2012

Hindustan Unilever chairman Harish Manwani says if agricultural growth picked up to 4 per cent as projected by the Planning Commission, the cascading impact of rural prosperity could boost our GDP by an extra 2 per cent