July 03, 2022 7:42 am
Sitharaman said Rs 1.4 lakh crore is the "rough bottom line" now for GST collections.
June 30, 2022 7:55 am
States were guaranteed compensation for five years till June 2022 at a compounded rate of 14 per cent (with 2015-16 as the base year) to make up for any losses due to the new tax regime that rolled out in July 2017.
June 30, 2022 7:54 am
The meeting will continue Wednesday with some stormy discussions that might take place over extension of the GST compensation plan to compensate States for revenue losses
June 28, 2022 9:09 pm
The Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and comprising state counterparts, also cleared a host of compliance procedures for GST-registered businesses
June 22, 2022 4:14 pm
Morbi in Gujarat houses close to 1,000 ceramic units, catering to 18 per cent of global demand and earns Rs 15,000 crore from exports.
June 18, 2022 8:12 am
No consensus on final report within GoM on tweaking slabs
June 12, 2022 4:39 am
The two-storey ‘Blue building’ that houses the museum, which was known as Alfandega, during the Portuguese rule in Goa, has been standing on the banks of the Mandovi River in Panaji is about 400 years old.
June 11, 2022 8:14 am
Congress’ Mansoor Ali Khan, son of former Congress Rajya Sabha member K Rahman Khan, and the JDS party's Kupendra Reddy, a former Rajya Sabha MP and a real estate businessman, couldn't make it through.
June 11, 2022 12:26 am
Highlighting that public sector enterprises which were privatised between 1994 and 2004 are being driven by professionally run boards, the Minister said these companies have only improved.
June 11, 2022 8:07 am
The high-stake battle for 16 seats — 6 in Maharashtra, 4 each in Karnataka and Rajasthan and 2 in Haryana — turned out to be a nail-biting affair with the Congress and BJP trading charges, even approaching the Election Commission.
June 21, 2022 12:49 pm
As the world gears up to mark the 8th International Yoga Day today, India is celebrating it in physical mode after a gap of two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
February 01, 2021 6:04 pm
The Finance minister in her Budget 2021 speech announced a slew of taxation reforms, along with increased spending on healthcare, with Rs 35,000 crore earmarked for Covid-19 vaccine development.
February 01, 2020 1:48 pm
As the Indian economy battles a sluggish growth, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday will table the second budget of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government after it returned to power last year.
April 13, 2015 6:12 pm
Narendra Modi enters the second day of his Germany visit.
December 31, 2014 8:44 pm
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the top news and newsmaker in 2014. He led BJP to a historic election victory and formed a stable government at the Centre.
June 22, 2020 6:14 pm
A report has claimed a top official of Dassault Aviation said in 2017 that a joint venture with Anil Ambani’s Reliance group was a condition to win the 36 jet Rafale deal.