PM chairs key all-party meet on G-20, seeks cooperation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a meeting of leaders from all parties on India's presidency of the G-20 and sought their cooperation to make it a big success, while opposition......

Indian delegation meets Canadian tax experts in Toronto

The empowered committee delegation, including state finance ministers participated in two round table conferences sponsored by the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce and the Canada-India Business......

Parl passes bill to ban funding of WMDs; good for country's security, says EAM

Parliament on Monday passed a bill which seeks to ban the funding of weapons of mass destruction and also empowers the Centre to freeze, seize or attach financial assets and economic resources of......

'Arif Mohammad Khan is crossing the limits now'

'He will go to any extent, and he will have the full support of the Union government as they may not like a Left government to continue here.' IMAGE: Arif Mohammad Khan, the governor of Kerala.......

Bibek Debroy: A Guru I Could Look To

Bibek Debroy was one of the very few economists not bound by any single area of expertise and was simultaneously curious about economics and politics, myths and maths, chess and chemistry, and what......

GST may get passed during UPA-II's tenure

Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday work on Goods and Services Tax was in progress and there was 70 per cent possibility of the indirect tax legislation being passed in Parliament......

Consensus reached, GST to be rolled out from July 1

The consensus was reached after the Centre agreed to the demand of states to go in for horizontal split. In a major breakthrough, the Centre and states on Monday reached a consensus on sharing......

TN's Technocrat Finance Minister Faces First Test

P T R Palanivel Thiagarajan has proclaimed his determination to set Tamil Nadu's fiscal house in order in five years, and Friday will reveal how he plans to go about it when he rises to present the......

Can Dada fix the BCCI?

'Somewhere along the way, elected office-bearers appeared to have lost sight of the interest of cricket and begun to pursue their own interpretation of what the game should be.' 'Families made it a......