Amid talk of jobless growth and the urgent need for India to create employment for its millions of young men and women, the Chief Statistician of India, T.C.A. Ananth, says there is not much evidence to show that the unemployment scenario may have worsened in the last three or four years.
Anubhuti Vishnoi
Even as small traders in India’s vast unorganized sector express their confusion about the new tax regime, their faith in its long-term benefits has not lessened.
AADYA SINHA, TALHA ASHRAF & DIVYA NARAYANAN
Leaders such as Chidambaram and Jyotiraditya Scindia did not want the party to boycott the GST launch. But the line of Sonia and Rahul prevailed.
RUHI TEWARI
The industry is desperately seeking clarity on how GST will affect sponsorships, registrations, ticket prices and local body taxes.
With barely 48 hours to go...
Activists are up in arms over the government's plan to tax sanitary pads at the same level as cheese, cell phones and frozen meat products under the Goods and Services Tax. And there may be at least two legal petitions challenging this decision.
KAVEESHA KOHLI
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Yes but still panel shd hv involved included people who have practised business & economy, and not babus and economists who have only been consultants (who start teaching before learning). Likes of Ratan Tata, Rahul Bajaj & N.Murthy should have been in this panel.
Babus and netas have experimented with India enough. Now, either policy making should involve people with proven caliber and character, or Govt should take rest for a free years and slow India to recover from the experiments in the name of reforms.
Can’t believe that the PM made such an important decision on the basis of FT editorial within a day of its publication. It must have been other way. Having secured a tip that PM was going to set up an EAC, the publication came out with a piece to boast that PM follows them.
Modi disbanded EAC because he couldn’t understand anything. In last few months, i think he has read economics 101. So he reconstituted.
modi is clueless uneducated and has done worthless notebandi. may almighty save India from his another assault.
Yes but still panel shd hv involved included people who have practised business & economy, and not babus and economists who have only been consultants (who start teaching before learning). Likes of Ratan Tata, Rahul Bajaj & N.Murthy should have been in this panel.
Babus and netas have experimented with India enough. Now, either policy making should involve people with proven caliber and character, or Govt should take rest for a free years and slow India to recover from the experiments in the name of reforms.
Can’t believe that the PM made such an important decision on the basis of FT editorial within a day of its publication. It must have been other way. Having secured a tip that PM was going to set up an EAC, the publication came out with a piece to boast that PM follows them.