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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicMinistry of Finance

Topic: Ministry of Finance

Wintrack founder’s spat with Chennai Customs started in January. He had ordered handcuffs

A senior officer told Wintrack founder Prawin Ganesan's staff that not only his department, but the whole Chennai Customs is against Ganesan.

Boost for govt research institutes as Centre eases procurement rules for scientific equipment

Union Minister of Science & Technology Jitendra Singh said the simplified general financial rules will promote ease of doing research & empower institutes to innovate faster.

Of 36 PSUs up for sale since 2016, just 10 sold so far, and 8 of these were bought by other PSUs

Ministry of Finance also informed Parliament that from 2023-24 onwards, it has stopped providing targets in budget for how much it expects to receive through disinvestment. 

Shaktikanta Das has handled govt better than rockstar RBI chiefs. The real test is now

The next few weeks will show how successfully Governor Shaktikanta Das can navigate the latest butting of heads between the government and the RBI.

‘BJP never believed in reform’—what ex-PM Manmohan Singh said in 2004

What did Manmohan Singh have to say about 1991 economic reforms, working with Indira Gandhi & Narasimha Rao, and more. Read this transcript of his Walk The Talk interview to find out.

Research funds exempt from GST, finance ministry not to pursue notices issued to IIT-D, Anna University

GST council in its 54th meeting exempted universities, research centres governed by central or state govt, or those exempted from Income Tax, from paying GST on research grants.

India’s next cabinet secretary, TV Somanathan, is an overachiever with blunt words for pvt sector

Somanathan, currently finance secy, will take over as cabinet secy for 2 yrs starting 30 August. A vital adviser to finance minister & close to PMO, he is vocal about views on taxation.

Senior IAS officer & Finance Secretary T V Somanathan appointed Cabinet Secretary

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has also approved the appointment of Somanathan as officer on Special Duty in the Cabinet Secretariat, an official order said.

After uproar over hike in Budget, govt reverts to 10% customs duty on lab chemicals, with 1 condition

The condition is that importers now have to give an undertaking that they will only supply labs. How this affects the supply chain remains to be seen.

Arvind Subramanian on India having missed its chance to rationalise GST rates — ‘moment has passed’

Speaking at an event, the former CEA says he no longer thinks fuel & electricity should be included in GST and added that India has only now, 7 yrs later, reached pre-GST revenue levels.

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BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.