Government policies
SUV prices to zoom; GST council lowers rates on 40 daily use items
11 Sep 2017
With the higher cess on SUVs and luxury cars, the overall GST on them is now 50 per cent while the cess on midsized cars and smaller vehicles has taken the total GST impact on them to 45 per cent and 47 per cent respectively
Unruly fliers could even face lifetime ban
08 Sep 2017
Government today unveiled its `No-Fly’ policy to tackle on-board disruptive and unruly behaviour by passengers, which could pave way for a No Fly List
Apple rejects Trai anti-spam app, says won’t part with user data
08 Sep 2017
The Indian government is now in a piquant situation where a private company, and that too a large foreign one, claims to be the sole custodian of the privacy and personal data of Indian users
Government freezes bank accounts of over 2 lakh suspected 'shell' companies
06 Sep 2017
Directors and authorised signatories of these de-registered companies will not be able to operate bank accounts without the sanction of the National Company Law Tribunal
RBI says 99% of scrapped notes have returned into system
31 Aug 2017
RBI said Rs15.28 lakh crore, or 99 per cent of the Rs15.44 lakh crore of scrapped Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes, had come back into the banking system between 8 November last year and 30 June this year
Centre extends Aadhaar deadline to 31 Dec as SC defers hearing PILs
30 Aug 2017
A 3-judge bench of the apex court is hearing a total of 22 cases challenging several aspects of the government’s Aadhaar programme, including its use and sharing of data collected by private agencies
Aviation FDI policy excludes Air India
29 Aug 2017
Govt moves to speed up mergers of state-run banks
23 Aug 2017
The union cabinet has given in-principle approval for public sector banks to amalgamate through an Alternative Mechanism (AM), under which the decision will come from the bank boards