Economy - general
India needs lower taxation levels to be competitive: Jaitley
26 Dec 2016
While the introduction of the goods and services tax will help lower production costs, the finance minister also hinted at a general reduction in tax rates supported by better compliance by the taxpayer
Want to see India as a developed nation in my life time, says PM
24 Dec 2016
The prime minister today inaugurated the campus of the National Institute of Securities Markets at Patalganga, near Mumbai and laid foundation stones for the Shivaji Memorial off the Mumbai coast and metro rail projects in Mumbai and Pune
Now use old notes for PM’s Garib Kalyan Yojana till 30 Dec
23 Dec 2016
Tax and penalty payments under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana after the 30 December deadline will have to be made in legal tender or cheques or drafts or in digital made only
India pips Britain to become world's sixth largest economy
21 Dec 2016
India's economy has reportedly overtaken the UK's for the first time in over 100 years on the back of a faster rate of economic growth and the economic slump in the UK after the Brexit vote
Digital economy to substitute parallel economy: Arun Jaitley
16 Dec 2016
Digital transactions will be a parallel mechanism and will not completely do away with cash transactions, but help check black money cash transactions, finance minister Arun Jaitley says
Cash crunch could end by February '17: report
15 Dec 2016
Cash disbursement to the public could touch Rs14 lakh crore by the second week of February — or over 90 per cent of the amount withdrawn from the system on 8 November
Consumer price inflation falls to a 2-year low of 3.63% in November
13 Dec 2016
The cooling of inflation was brought about by a sharp drop in vegetable prices and in part by a cash crunch resulting from the government’s move to demonetise high-value currency notes
Chennai limps back day after Cyclone Vardah left 6 dead
13 Dec 2016
The first 'very severe cyclonic storm' to hit the city and the first cyclone in city since 1994, Vardah left 6 people, including 4 women and a 3-year-old child dead in Chennai and another person in Kanchipuram and left 2,810 trees uprooted
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