Economy - general

Duty-free shops at airports to charge GST

24 Apr 2018

Arunachal, MP, Meghalaya, Sikkim and Puducherry to roll out e-Way Bills from Wednesday

24 Apr 2018

Arunachal, MP, Meghalaya, Sikkim and Puducherry to roll out e-Way Bills from Wednesday

24 Apr 2018

India remains at top of global remittances chart with $69 bn in 2017

24 Apr 2018

Remittances to India picked up sharply by 9.9 per cent to $69 billion in 2017, reversing the previous year's dip, but were still short of the $70.4 billion received in 2014

India remains at top of global remittances chart with $69 bn in 2017

24 Apr 2018

Remittances to India picked up sharply by 9.9 per cent to $69 billion in 2017, reversing the previous year's dip, but were still short of the $70.4 billion received in 2014

50 IITians dump jobs for politics

23 Apr 2018

Cabinet approves `death-for-child-rapist’ ordinance

21 Apr 2018

The ordinance prescribes death for those convicted of raping children below the age of 12 years, while in case of rape of a girl aged under 16 years, the ordinance prescribes minimum punishment of 20 years in jail

Cabinet approves `death-for-child-rapist’ ordinance

21 Apr 2018

India may shut 1.36 lakh engineering seats and 110 engineering colleges

21 Apr 2018

Simultaneously, the ministry of human resource development is deploying highly qualified and motivated graduates recruited from IITs and NITs to improve the quality of technical and higher education in the backward areas of the country

Demonetisation saw phenomenal jump in suspicious transactions: finance ministry

21 Apr 2018

India now world’s No 6 economy, pursuing ‘right policies’: IMF

20 Apr 2018

India has “quite a high” government debt to GDP ratio at 70 per cent, but is trying to lower it using “the right policies”, the IMF says, while flagging the usual issues of educational outcomes, infrastructure and labour laws

IMF sees India reemerging as world’s fastest-growing economy

20 Apr 2018

IT department warns salaried taxpayers not to under-report income

19 Apr 2018

Cash crunch unabated, supply cut in Rs2,000 notes blamed

19 Apr 2018

Currency is becoming scarce as the supply of Rs2,000 notes has reportedly been stopped, leaving most ATMs to operate at below 50 per cent capacity; and bankers have put the blame squarely on the RBI

UP Wakf Board ends its claim on Taj Mahal, but SC not impressed

18 Apr 2018

India to grow at 7.5 per cent in 2019 and 2020: World Bank

17 Apr 2018

The bank, in its bi-annual South Asia Economic Focus report notes that the Indian economy will expand at 7.5 per cent in 2019 and 2020 thanks a to a sustained recovery in private investment and private consumption

India’s WPI inflation marginally lower at 2.47% in March

17 Apr 2018

Kathua rape trial begins: father seeks venue shift, lawyer fears for life

16 Apr 2018

Employees with special reimbursements might be liable to pay GST

16 Apr 2018

India features in US list meriting close attention to currency practices

14 Apr 2018

Had cautioned government against hasty demonetisation: Raghuram Rajan

13 Apr 2018

Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has reiterated his views that India’s demonetisation exercise was not a good idea and its implementation was ill-planned, adding that he had cautioned the government about it, when the idea was brought up

India’s consumer price inflation a tad lower at 4.28% in March

12 Apr 2018

Industrial production grows 7.1 per cent in February

12 Apr 2018

Heavy rain brings Taj Mahal pillar tumbling down

12 Apr 2018

This was a disaster waiting to happen, as it has long been known that India’s best-known monument is suffering serious damage due to pollution but the buck was being passed around on who is supposed to take what steps to conserve it