Economy - general

Govt notifies rules for black money valuation

04 Jul 2015

Once the window for disclosure closes, the tax will remain at 30 per cent but the penalty will be three times the tax — or 90 per cent — besides possible criminal prosecution and jail term

Govt notifies rules for black money valuation

04 Jul 2015

Once the window for disclosure closes, the tax will remain at 30 per cent but the penalty will be three times the tax — or 90 per cent — besides possible criminal prosecution and jail term

Census reveals Bharat-India divide

04 Jul 2015

Nearly 40 per cent of rural households are financially excluded, reveals the first socio-economic and caste census

Govt announces integrated skills development, entrepreneurship policy

02 Jul 2015

The government has approved common norms for skill development schemes being implemented by the centre under the mission

E-filing of income tax returns begins

02 Jul 2015

UGC releases list of 21 fake universities

02 Jul 2015

Petrol price cut by 31 paise per litre, diesel cheaper by 71 paise

01 Jul 2015

Core sector output growth at a 6-month high of 4.4% in May

30 Jun 2015

NTPC to train 25,000 in services, manufacturing sectors in five years

27 Jun 2015

NITI Aayog panel recommends reduction of centrally sponsored schemes to 30

27 Jun 2015

Govt may infuse Rs19,440 cr into PSU banks this fiscal

27 Jun 2015

India tops in adopting automation in operations, practices: survey

25 Jun 2015

Indian companies are switching to automation to lower costs and have greater accuracy and increased flexibility to increase or decrease productio

A reflection on rural India

25 Jun 2015

Vishwas Patil is the author of the acclaimed Marathi novels Panipat, Sambhaji and Mahanayak His book Jhadajhadati

Mumbai braces for more rains while limping to normalcy

20 Jun 2015

Mumbai, which was paralysed on Friday following torrential rains since Thursday night, limped back to normalcy on Saturday, with train services restored on all three suburban lines

India faces world's worst groundwater depletion: NASA

19 Jun 2015

The stress on groundwater resources is more apparent in India than in any other part of the world, data received from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites show

Maharashtra offers land to foreign cos to boost investment

18 Jun 2015

Just 928 households own 20% of India’s private wealth

17 Jun 2015

A study by Boston Consulting Group has found that millionaires held 41 per cent of the world's wealth in 2014 and this could rise to 46 per cent by 2019

At -2.36%, India’s WPI inflation remains negative for a seventh month in May

15 Jun 2015

Consumer price inflation edges up to 5.01% in May

12 Jun 2015

Industrial output growth climbs to 4.1 per cent in April

12 Jun 2015

The output data, which comes days after GDP data showed India outpaced China by growing 7.5 per cent in the March quarter, supports the government's view that the world's fastest-growing major economy is gathering steam