Economy - general
India fastest growing economy as Asia Pacific growth remains solid: ADB
19 Jul 2018
ADB’s Asian Development Outlook 2018 report published in April had said that India's economic growth will rise to 7.3 per cent this fiscal and further to 7.6 per cent in the next financial year
Men and women can pray at Sabarimala, rules SC
19 Jul 2018
SC asks centre, states to enact special laws to stop lynching
17 Jul 2018
Coming down heavily against government apathy to recent incidents of mob violence and lynching with people taking law into their own hands, the Supreme Court has asked Parliament to pass law to make lynching a separate punishable offence
Grab, grab, grab!
10 Jul 2018
There has been a growing trend of a handful of rich and powerful people grabbing national resources for personal profit. Laws have been bent and broken, the political system corrupted, and the common people’s interests thrown to the winds. Yogi Aggarwal’s book, Plunder of the Commons, goes into great detail to describe the plunder, says Kiron Kasbekar.
India has taken quantum jump in wrong direction: Amartya Sen
10 Jul 2018
Nobel Prize winner and top economist Amartya Sen lambasts the Narendra Modi government’s performance that has pulled India’s ranking among South Asian economies
‘Can’t tax milk, Mercedes equally’: PM rules out single GST rate
02 Jul 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday ruled out a single goods and services tax (GST) rate, saying milk and a Mercedes car could not be taxed at the same rate
Monsoon covers country ahead of schedule
30 Jun 2018
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