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They do not reward dishonesty through lower tax rates, offer a chance to come clean without impacting revenues.

Justice Dipak Misra’s separate judgment in the Arunachal case last week elucidated for the first time details of provisions of Art 179 (c) and Tenth Schedule.

Pokémon GO taps on augmented reality and geocaching to give a new twist to mobile gaming.

NSDL was inaugurated in November 1996, and demat trading started in December 1996, NSE started its equity segment operations in November 1994 after being incorporated in November 1992.

Arun Jaitley was Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha between 2009 and 2014, where he led the BJP’s charge against the UPA-II government.

The current crisis in the Valley has exposed the dichotomy between Mehbooba Mufti as a leader of the opposition and Mehbooba Mufti as a chief minister.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has witnessed the development of the reforms process closely, and is uniquely placed to compare the policies of the two NDA governments on a range of issues.

The constitutional courts have stated that a Governor must remember he is not a democratically elected representative.

The World Health Organisation estimates that sales of sugar-sweetened beverages in India have increased by more than 10% year-on-year since 1998, exceeding 11 litres per capita per year.

Agriculture Ministry’s harvest estimates don’t square with drought conditions in several cases, raise serious questions of credibility.

China has rejected the Tribunal’s verdict, a decision which has serious real-world implications for the international order.

Arun Shourie, one of India’s leading public intellectuals, is a journalist, author and economist.

China, which demands one-on-one talks to resolve the disputes, had boycotted the case and vowed to ignore the verdict, which will be handed down Tuesday by a tribunal in The Hague.

A former president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) who had met him to convince him on GST, says Modi instinctively knew the benefits of the tax, but obstructed it for political reasons.

Montek Singh Ahluwalia was Special Secretary in the PMO, Commerce Secretary, Economic Affairs Secretary, Finance Secretary, Member, Planning Commission, Director, Independent Evaluation Office, IMF, and Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission.

The ruling should come as a relief for the conflict-ridden north-eastern state, where the demand to repeal AFSPA, in force here since 1958, has been a long standing one.

Yaga Venugopal Reddy was Joint Secretary in the Finance Ministry during the 1991 crisis and RBI Governor between 2003 and 2008. He also served as the chairman of the 14th Finance Commission.

With no political party or a parliamentarian coming in his favour of impeachment of Karki , Dr Govinda K C faces the risk of losing face, or health , depending whether he will give up

In an interview to The Indian Express, Rakesh Mohan says reforms is not just about opening up to foreign investors and that there is much more at stake.

On June 1-2 , multiple incidents of cloudbursts hit Uttarakhand, killing 16 people while several remain missing. The incident brought back memories of the 2013 disaster that resulted in over 5,000 deaths and massive damage

In the mid 1980s, during the first burst of reforms, Shankar Acharya came to the finance ministry as an economic adviser. From 1985 to 1990, Acharya saw the turmoil building, but he left on deputation

Venkitaramanan's advice essentially was that the economy was vulnerable and therefore, the political leadership ought to consider approaching multi-lateral lenders such as the International Monetary Fund for assistance or a loan.

Deepak Nayyar was chief economic adviser to two short-lived governments — the ones led by V P Singh and Chandra Shekhar — and also in the first few months of the Narasimha Rao-led government.

In the last cabinet expansion, the BJP had sent the name of Sena's Anil Desai to the President. But hours before the swearing-in the Sena withdrew its candidate demanding an assurance of cabinet rank as

Ahead of the assembly elections in West Bengal when nearly all the state leaders were for pulling for an alliance with the Left Front, Bhunia was the exception who had initially favored a Congress alliance