Government policies

Lok Sabha passes bill to check stashing away of black money abroad

11 May 2015

The bill provides for a two-month window to declare overseas assets and six months to pay tax and penalty, but beyond that anyone found having undeclared overseas wealth would have to pay 30 per cent tax and 90 per cent of tax as penalty and face criminal prosecution

Govt to delay MAT collection till committee submits report

11 May 2015

PM's social security schemes enroll nearly 50 million ahead of launch

09 May 2015

DoT decision gave Reliance Jio a Rs3,367-cr windfall: CAG

09 May 2015

According to the CAG, by allowing migration at prices discovered for 4G spectrum in 2001, the DoT has failed to realise the time value of the airwaves

Mega food parks scheme now more in sync with the market

07 May 2015

Cabinet allows foreign investment flows to real estate investment trusts

06 May 2015

Govt refutes reports of probe into Gates Foundation

06 May 2015

GST will not hit states’ revenues: Jaitley

05 May 2015

Centre asks states to create 'eMarketing' infrastructure for agriculture 'eMandis'

02 May 2015

Foreign funds move Bombay HC against MAT as Jaitley offers relief

30 Apr 2015

Replying to the debate on the Finance Bill, 2015 in Lok Sabha, Jaitley exempted social security schemes from service tax, reduced duties on raw silk, iron ore and rubber and offered a simplified IT returns form

Govt hikes sugar import duty to 40%, scraps duty-free import scheme

29 Apr 2015

Govt makes Rs1,000 minimum monthly EPFO pension perpetual

29 Apr 2015

Reliance Power terminates PPA for Rs36,000-cr Tilaiya project

28 Apr 2015

Reliance Power, which had won the right for setting up a 3,960 MW power plant at Hazaribagh in Jharkhand way back in August 2009, after bidding a levelised tariff of Rs1.77 per unit, iy yet to get land for implementing the project

CJI opts out of panel to select NJAC members

28 Apr 2015

The Supreme Court bench hearing the petition challenging the NJAC Act has informed Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi that the CJI has opted out of the selection panel that has no Constitutional validity as yet

FIIs under tax treaty to be exempted from MAT claim

25 Apr 2015

Government may extend direct benefit transfer to more subsidy schemes

24 Apr 2015

SAARC countries to strengthen health cooperation

24 Apr 2015

Land bill delayed, but Modi govt won’t take onus of farmer suicides

24 Apr 2015

The Narendra Modi-government has delayed a bill making it easier for industry to buy farmland amidst rising rural anger over neglect of farmers distressed by successive crop failures