Government
States against cap on GST rate, says Jaitley
14 Jun 2016
The finance minister has rejected Congress party’s demand to cap the GST rate at 18 per cent and create an independent mechanism to resolve disputes on revenue sharing between states
Rights group ACLU joins Microsoft in case against gag orders
27 May 2016
The civil liberties watchdog has joined Microsoft in suing the US government over the use of orders that prevent the technology firm from telling customers their data has been demanded
13 new faces sworn in along with Jayalalithaa in TN
23 May 2016
The oath ceremony, marking Jayalalithaa's sixth innings as CM, was held at the Madras University Centenary Auditorium in Chennai
Government all set to crack down on super-rich tax dodgers
23 May 2016
Tax authorities are now undertaking a cross-checking of income declarations with actual incomes, including bank deposits, luxury spending, stock market dealings, property ownership, etc, to bare real incomes of the rich
AIADMK, TMC stay put as BJP annexes Assam and Kerala turns Left
19 May 2016
While the Congress Party is now routed in most states and the country is almost ‘Congress-mukt’, Narenra Modi’s BJP will find it more difficult to deal with regional outfits than the Congress