'Modi had not discussed demonetisation with me prior to his announcement on 8 November 2016.'I learnt of it along with the rest of the country.'I was not surprised when he did not discuss the issue......
'How do we explain that on the economic, internal security and strategic fronts, India's unstable coalitions have acted more decisively and boldly than all our full-majority governments yet?' asks......
Adjusted for inflation, the earlier scheme would have collected Rs 25,000 crore. Dilasha Seth/Business Standard reports.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's......
A huge sum of Rs 65,250 crore in black money was declared through the one-time declaration window, marking the biggest-ever disclosure of hidden wealth that will rake in Rs 29,362 crore in taxes......
There was a lot of hope abroad that Mr Jaitley's first Budget would be known as the 'Rollback Retrospective', says Devangshu Datta. Landmark budgets, good or bad, are associated with buzzwords, or......
Sukumar Mukhopadhyay, former member, Central Board of Excise and Customs, and Govindrao Adik, MP and General Secretary, NCP, debate the pros and cons of offering amnesty to tax evaders. Sukumar......
Are the Comptroller and Auditor General's latest set of reports on the functioning of the National Democratic Alliance government, as former divestment minister Arun Shourie would have us believe,......