'Votes-for-notes no longer only means cash and goodies for fence-sitting voters,' points out Sunil Sethi. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Money talks. By that definition campaign politics of......
False and acrimonious debates such as Modi versus Manmohan might allow for victories that are political and partisan.But the real loser is the nation, India and Bharat, notes Arvind Subramanian,......
Senior Indian Administrative Service officer T V Somanathan was on Friday appointed Expenditure Secretary, the post lying vacant since late October, as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the Maldives on Saturday on his first foreign visit after his re-election to strengthen the bilateral ties, reflecting the importance India attaches to its......
Veerappa Moily, a veteran Congress leader from Karnataka, became chief minister of the state briefly between 1992 and 1994 and was credited with cleaning up the administration. He has published a......
The finance minister’s advisor, Parthasarathi Shome, completes his tenure at North Block next month. But his association with the ministry is going to continue, as head of the Tax......
The finance ministry plans to allay investor fear on tax uncertainty in India. The idea is to introduce in the next Budget a number of safeguards for preventing disputes with taxpayers. A panel......
The government is planning to extend the electronic modes of tax payment to its own payments platform, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), credit cards of banks, or even a mobile wallet like Paytm.......
A committee on digitalisation headed by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu had in an interim report recommended taxing cash transactions of at least Rs 50,000 to promote digital......
A tax reforms panel, headed by finance minister's advisor Parthasarathi Shome, is considering moving away from setting fixed tax-collection targets and linking these with the changing economic......