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......
Around seventy seven per cent voting was recorded in the third phase of West Bengal assembly polls in 75 seats covering Kolkata, North and South 24 Parganas districts on Wednesday. West Bengal......
'The procurement cycle still consumes too much time; little has changed.''There is still no level playing field for the private sector.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi addresses......
Disinvestment secretary Sunil Mitra will be the new revenue secretary in place of P V Bhide, who retires on January 31. The name of Mitra, a 1975 batch IAS officer from West Bengal cadre, was......
The revenue department has exceeded its tax collections target this year. Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra agrees the target for 2011-12 is ambitious but achievable. In an interview with Vrishti......
Replacing the half century old Income Tax Act, the Central Government presented a landmark draft for a revised Direct Tax Code. The draft is expected to revolutionise the existing......
The murmurs of a resurgence of Bengali intelligentsia are getting louder on the Capital's Raisina Hill. So, when Tarun Das, ex-chief mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industry, and Shekhar......
The government has set a revenue target of Rs 9 lakh crore during the current financial year, a top official said. "We have set a target to collect Rs 9 lakh crore through direct and indirect taxes......
The Centre on Tuesday directed Suresh Kalmadi, convener of the Commonwealth Games, to relieve immediately T S Darbari and Dr Sanjay Mahindroo, senior officials holding high positions in the CWG......