Government policies
Auto sales drop as buyers wait for GST rollout
01 Jul 2017
GST all set for midnight launch
30 Jun 2017
GST will help faster and cheaper movement of goods and services across the country, and thereby help boost India's GDP growth by 1-2 percentage points
Cabinet approves Pay Commission recommendations on allowances
28 Jun 2017
The approval, though delayed, comes with a lower trigger for raising house rent allowance, which has now been set at 25 per cent increase in dearness allowance against 50 per cent earlier
E-commerce firms exempted from TDS, TCS, for now
27 Jun 2017
Most services to be costlier with GST
23 Jun 2017
GST set for midnight launch on 30 June
19 Jun 2017
The Goods and Services Tax is all set to be officially launched on the midnight intervening 30 June and 1 July after the GST Council cleared all GST rules and finalized all rates
Aadhaar must for transactions of Rs50,000 and above, bank accounts
16 Jun 2017
All existing bank account holders will also have to furnish their Aadhaar number latest by 31 December 2017, failing which the account will cease to be operational
'Metroman' E Sreedharan seen as likely NDA candidate for President
16 Jun 2017
E Sreedharan, who was the main force behind the Konkan Railway, as well as the Kolkata and Delhi Metros and took up the challenge of repeating the success in a state like Kerala, could be acceptable to the Left, the Right and the Secular
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