Subhomoy Bhattacharjee

The case frankly gained mass attention because the UPA-II government was facing the heat from the clearly messy allocations made by its telecom minister A Raja to all sorts of companies in 2008.

Companies including Amazon, Flipkart, and Snapdeal have gone on a frenzied build up of inventory

The resignation follows a tussle between the skill development ministry and NSDC on who will hold the pilot position on Centre's skill development agenda.

The Cabinet is expected to clear the proposal this week. Sources said all the officers of the Directorate General of Employment and Training (DGE&T) will be subsumed in the cadre.

Any drop in poverty is a great story so to that extent it is a cause for cheer. It is also an attractive story because the total has a way of raising hope—the number of those living on $1.90 a day has slipped to less than 1 billion.

When Rajan took over at the RBI in September 2013, the Fed made noises that it was about to reverse that accommodative monetary policy sparking a huge reversal of dollar inflow into India.

Indian taxes are not so much administered by laws as by the rules these officers take it upon themselves to write when the political masters have completed drafting the broad strokes.

On a positive note, the Ind-Ra report notes that the low level of 2014-15 is expected to be the bottom and the economy is expected to turn around in another two years.

Inflation would climb only if some of the excess capital in the global markets can be yoked with labour to produce goods and services that people would buy.

The states which have pushed into the top flight are the relatively poorer states but it has taken little to clean up their act.

A Goldman Sachs report released on Monday such changes could help economy leapfrog a generation of creating physical infrastructure and boost GDP growth.

The Modi government’s offer of a 6 per cent rise in DA does indeed matter, but only in the short term.

What India’s policy makers need is guidance and information on how more successful countries have managed to do so.

Prices of goods in the wholesale market including those imported from abroad principally crude, were also rising in goose step.

The sections of the tax manual that come up for examination differ, the political provenance of the governments differ, but the final results do not differ.

Plan to come up in the consultation paper to be released by regulator Trai.

If one looks at the geographical spread of the 98 shortlisted cities it can be witnessed that a large number of them are clustered around the freight corridors the government plans to build.

The huge plunge in the stock market on Monday was not generated by a few brokers' cartel in India. It was a global seize-up.

The government is checking out if all call drops are due to congestion as claimed by the telecom companies.

It makes sense for a telecom company to pitch for a 900 MHz band instead of 2,100 MHz or even 1,800 MHz.

The government, keen to project India as the place of choice to do business has called up the telecom companies to ensure more calls get through in key office buildings in the heart of New Delhi.

The specific mandate for the pay commission, however, does not include the examination of OROP even though its award will cover military personnel too.

Insurance companies claim the seizures are unjustified and that officers of the Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence (DGCEI) treated employees “inhumanly” and “harassed them” during search operations.

In the CESTAT the number of pending cases as per finance ministry data is 97,672 as on May 31, 2015.