Economy - general

Hardik Patel gets 2-year jail for violence during 2015 Patidar agitation

25 Jul 2018

Govt expects GST rate cuts, simplified returns to improve compliance

24 Jul 2018

Govt expects GST rate cuts, simplified returns to improve compliance

24 Jul 2018

GST Council rationalises rates on select services

23 Jul 2018

GST Council rationalises rates on select services

23 Jul 2018

List of products under revised GST rates

23 Jul 2018

List of products under revised GST rates

23 Jul 2018

GST rate cut gives consumer stocks a big boost

23 Jul 2018

White goods were the major beneficiaries in the stock market as shares of these companies gained 5-8 per cent in early trade today

New Rs100 notes spell fresh headache, Rs100 cr cost for ATM industry

21 Jul 2018

According to ATM industry body Confederation of ATM Industry, the industry was not consulted about the move to issue new, different-sized Rs100-notes and it received the news via media platforms; and it warned of a potential fresh cash crunch

No-trust vote: Opposition numbers do not stack up

20 Jul 2018

NDA partner Shiv Sena, despite its flip-flop, is expected to close ranks and vote against the no-confidence move while others like the AIADMK, TRS and the BJD are also likely to abstain from voting

India fastest growing economy as Asia Pacific growth remains solid: ADB

19 Jul 2018

ADB’s Asian Development Outlook 2018 report published in April had said that India's economic growth will rise to 7.3 per cent this fiscal and further to 7.6 per cent in the next financial year

Men and women can pray at Sabarimala, rules SC

19 Jul 2018

SC asks centre, states to enact special laws to stop lynching

17 Jul 2018

Coming down heavily against government apathy to recent incidents of mob violence and lynching with people taking law into their own hands, the Supreme Court has asked Parliament to pass law to make lynching a separate punishable offence

IMF pegs India’s GDP growth projection lower at 7.3% this year

17 Jul 2018

Wholesale price inflation hits a 4-year high of 5.77% in June

16 Jul 2018

Govt sets up panel to review penal provisions of Companies Act

16 Jul 2018

India’s consumer price inflation at a 5-month high of 5% in June

13 Jul 2018

India’s industrial production expands 3.2% in May

12 Jul 2018

GST Council likely to cut rates on items with low revenue impact

12 Jul 2018

GST Council likely to cut rates on items with low revenue impact

12 Jul 2018

India pips France to emerge world’s sixth biggest economy

11 Jul 2018

Andhra Pradesh tops 'Ease of Doing Business’ ranking of states

11 Jul 2018

Grab, grab, grab!

10 Jul 2018

There has been a growing trend of a handful of rich and powerful people grabbing national resources for personal profit. Laws have been bent and broken, the political system corrupted, and the common people’s interests thrown to the winds. Yogi Aggarwal’s book, Plunder of the Commons, goes into great detail to describe the plunder, says Kiron Kasbekar.

India has taken quantum jump in wrong direction: Amartya Sen

10 Jul 2018

Nobel Prize winner and top economist Amartya Sen lambasts the Narendra Modi government’s performance that has pulled India’s ranking among South Asian economies