At its heart, the issue is more than compliance. It is the risk of possible breakdown of a strong nexus between insurance firms and motor car dealers that makes the business the top earner for the former.

The recommendation to slash duty was made by the Bharatiya Janata Party to ease retail prices of petrol and diesel.

Market leaders in this line of business - New India Assurance and Tata AIG - have begun to reassess the premium on risk exposure of their portfolio in the director's and officer's liability business.

The case goes back to 2014, where the diamond merchant had pleaded guilty, though indirectly, for mis-declaration of exports of diamonds.

The Rs 11,400 crore PNB fraud saga unfolded after a bribery complaint by the Hong Kong branch of an Indian bank.

There is a large population standing outside the coverage of primary healthcare, says Praveen Gupta of Raheja QBE.

The views were asked for by the law ministry as part of a Cabinet note on the subject.

The change in policy for the three companies, from listing to merger, shows the level of discomfort within the government about their ability to take on the expanded load for insurance coverage with their current financial strength, including the massive premium and claim settlement cover under the proposed universal health coverage plan announced in Budget 2018.

The governance reforms, as an official put it, would bring in measures to track the performance of the executive-rank employees of the banks, intensively.

Govt could cut the GST rate payable every time someone buys a health insurance product; or it could also provide a larger income tax set off for those who buy a health insurance product

Pensioners, India Inc may get tax breaks in Budget

India expects to remain unscathed this time, mainly because it is in a sweet spot as the world's third largest oil consumer, after the US and China, says Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.

'GST had to come close on the heels of demonetisation as part of the same package.'

'After we released the report, the stir it created took us by surprise.'

There is discrimination against women in insurance cover. As a flood of insurance companies tap the capital markets with public issues, there is however, hardly any reference to this asymmetry. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports

Rapid rise in disposal of corruption cases against govt employees has helped

A cut in rates would have encouraged the banks to lend aggressively on the retail front.

Without Myanmar, India can't engage with any of the Asian nations to its east.

The government would have to assure the Supreme Court that collection of biometric data under Aadhaar does not violate privacy.

'We referred the case to the attorney general.' 'I told Mukul Rohatgi, "mujhe aap ka honest opinion chahiye".' 'He too said those were different offers.' Trai could not have stopped Reliance even if the Jio offers had been the same, Trai chief Ram Sewak Sharma tells Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.