Government policies

New defence procurement policy provides 90% finance in some cases

29 Mar 2016

Centre hikes dearness pay of employees, pensioners by 6 percentage points to 125%

23 Mar 2016

The dearness pay hike that will benefit 5 million employees and 5.8 million pensioners will cost the exchequer over Rs14,725 crore during a 14 month period from 1 January 2016

Atal Pension Yojana amended to make spouse, nominee eligible for pension

22 Mar 2016

Govt notifies revised environment standards for gensets

22 Mar 2016

Relief to pharma cos as Delhi HC stays ban on combination drugs till 28 March

21 Mar 2016

Govt, industry join hands to protect consumers against misleading ads, spurious products

21 Mar 2016

Govt formally withdraws recognition of Delhi Stock Exchange

21 Mar 2016

Govt’s e-auction of gas supply helps revive 9 stranded power plants of 5.942 MW capacity

21 Mar 2016

Jewellers end 18-day strike, government assures no harassment by tax officials

21 Mar 2016

Govt to launch retro tax settlement scheme on 1 June

21 Mar 2016

PPF rate cut prelude to a low-interest rate regime: Arun Jaitley

21 Mar 2016

Assocham’s report of wheat output fall motivated, says agriculture minister

19 Mar 2016

Maharashtra to spend Rs7,850 cr on 28 irrigation projects in FY17

19 Mar 2016

Plastic waste norms tightened; fresh onus on producers

19 Mar 2016

Notifying the new Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, the Centre has put greater responsibility on producers to collect back plastic waste

PPF interest rate cut to 8.1% from 8.7%; KVS rate cut by 90 bps to 7.8%

19 Mar 2016

Third tranche of gold bond scheme estimated to raise 1,128 kg of gold

18 Mar 2016

Mumbai's Siddhivinayak temple considering monetising its gold

18 Mar 2016

Cabotage rules relaxed for container transshipment ports

18 Mar 2016

Govt hopes to save Rs45,000 cr through Aadhaar seeding of DBT accounts

18 Mar 2016

Govt launches online monitoring system for Food Corporation of India depots

18 Mar 2016

Lok Sabha passes Aadhaar bill, rejects RS amendments

17 Mar 2016

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Aadhaar bill with five amendments that the opposition insisted on, but these have all been rejected when the bill returned to the lower house

Putting a cap on GST rate a difficult proposition, says Arun Jaitley

17 Mar 2016

Rajya Sabha passes Aadhaar bill with amendments; Lok Sabha likely to drop changes

16 Mar 2016

Mandatory to print retail prices on fertilizer packs: minister

16 Mar 2016

Jan Aushadhi makes available 88 essential drugs and other medical products

16 Mar 2016