Analysts have their doubts how much independence she has as finance minister.As Amit Mitra advises the chief minister, day-to-day work is done by the finance secretary and the chief secretary.......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday reappointed her nephew Abhishek Banerjee as Trinamool Congress national general secretary as she constituted the new office-bearers' team,......
Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced a 20-member national working committee amid a growing rift within the party. IMAGE: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee......
Congress, Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party MPs staged separate dharnas on Monday near the Gandhi statue in Parliament, demanding answers from the government on the Delhi riots on the first......
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......
The GST Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, will meet on December 31 and discuss, among other things, report of the panel of state ministers on rate rationalisation. This will......
No longer Bengal's finance minister, Amit Mitra, Mamata's principal chief advisor, will still advise and aid the 'chief minister and finance department on all matters relating to management of......
The finance ministry has set up two committees of state finance ministers which would rework rate slabs, review GST exempt items and identify potential evasion sources. Four years after the roll......
In power, Mamata Banerjee has tried to bury the ghost of the past, but it might still be work-in-progress. Big-ticket and eye-grabbing (in terms of investment size) projects are still few and......
Facing a deepening slowdown, the auto sector is pinning hopes on the GST Council meeting on September 20 for a rate cut from 28 per cent to 18 per cent. However, states including Bihar, West......
Readers' take on the newly-formed panel to select the new coach.*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*Ram LankaIn a Team India that is studded with stars, the coach is forced to play their "yes" man.......