Data shows 'revenue foregone' due to tax incentives mostly benefited corporates in 2004-05. Situation improved by 2013-14, but individuals became main beneficiaries only under Modi govt.
Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal says 'it was PM Modi who took the decision for the passage of the long-pending bill', rebuts criticism on 'delayed implementation, lack of OBC quota'.
Prime Minister Modi has often claimed that the BJP government fast-tracked or completed big-ticket projects that had languished under UPA dispensation. Here are 10 such projects.
Saharsa is the first district in Bihar to be declared paperless. It was not a one-day magic event but a process that took time, training and changing mindsets.
Bhandari claims he had ‘helped’ Thales to ‘sell the upgrade of the Mirage jets by facilitating a meeting’ with a senior defence ministry official. He fled India in 2016.
Speaking at a Loksatta event, Pawar says he was the only Union minister during UPA term to hold conversations with then CM Modi and visited Gujarat at the state govt’s request.
MP Manish Tewari's new book, released last week, talks about Congress-led UPA govt’s 'hesitancy in communication', and rationale behind subsequent dealings with Pakistan.
In an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana, the Sena also warned Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to clarify what they plan to do about the UPA and who will lead it.
For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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