Full exemption for all health insurance premiums and reinsurance or a reduction in the GST rate from 18% to 5% on health insurance services is likely. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com ......
In Chanda's defence, one can always say, why would the Videocon Group take care of her husband as a quid pro quo to get a loan? After all, the group has taken money from the entire banking industry......
'Our future is in limbo. The government saved us with Operation Ganga; now, they must save our careers.' IMAGE: Himanshu Yadav, 20, hugs his mother Shudesh at Delhi airport, March 2, 2022. He had......
'Is it time to think beyond the traditional questionnaire-based approach in India?' asks Atanu Biswas. IMAGE: People board a train at a railway station in New Delhi. Photograph: Anindito......
The new business premium (NBP) of life insurance companies dropped 21.7 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to Rs 30,218.71 crore in December 2024 on the back of a steep fall in business. Illustration:......
Life insurers shifted their focus to selling high-value policies in October as the transition to new surrender value norms, effective October 1, limited their ability to roll out all products in......
Life insurance companies reported a 13.16 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) growth in new business premium (NBP), totting up Rs 30,347 crore in October, even as the number of policies sold saw a sharp......
The GST rate is also proposed to be cut on food delivery platforms like Swiggy and Zomato, to 5 per cent from the current 18 per cent. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The GST Council, in......
The goods and services tax council on Saturday decided to levy an 18 per cent GST on margin value on sale of used electric vehicles by businesses and agreed to keep jet fuel (ATF) out of the......