From whatever preliminary details available at this moment, the budget 2017-18 presented by the Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, is identified as a ‘pro-poor’ and ‘pro-rural’ budget. The budget has allocated enormous money on rural infrastructure, social welfare, agriculture, poverty alleviation Continue Reading
Erasing the confusions around the budget presentation and putting an end to the speculations regarding the date of the presentation triggered after the unexpected death of E Ahamed, the senior leader of the Indian Union Muslim League and the former Union Minister of state for External Affairs in the erstwhile UPA government, the Finance Minister, […]Continue Reading
The Rajya Sabha speaker, PJ Kurien, last day categorized the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) bill, 2015, as a financial bill, announcing the removal of the bill from the pending list.The bill was originally tabled in 2015 by a congress leader, named KVP Ramachandra Rao, as a private member bill.Earlier, while considering the bill, the […]Continue Reading
In what could be viewed as a strong military reaction to the Uri attack, the Indian army has conducted surgical strike across the ‘Line Of control’ to shatter the Pakistan terrorist bases. Earlier, on last week, nearly eighteen innocent soldiers of the Indian army were brutally killed in a terror attack at the Uri region […]Continue Reading
On the 14th day of the Kisan Yatra, the congress vice president, Rahul Gandhi, has demanded that the central government must create a separate agrarian budget. He claimed that the former UPA government led by the Congress party had given several benefits to the farmers. In his opinion, the UPA 2 had waived off loans of […]Continue Reading
It seems that the grand old party of our country, the Congress party, decided to defend the Central government’s decision to impose President’s rule in Uttarakhand. According to reports, the Congress party on today will approach the High Court of the state to seek judicial assistance against the, so called, injustice. At the same time, the nine […]Continue Reading
Ahead of the crucial regional-elections, the center government is planning to revamp the cabinet at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s behest.Reports say that PM Modi will spike out the under-performers from the cabinet to strengthen the government machinery. Meanwhile, Medias quoted as source as saying; the BJP lacks proper intelligent pool to replace the vacancy.An Continue Reading
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today that with real-time global automatic exchange of information system coming into effect the tax evasion and money laundering will be “extremely difficult” in the next 1-2 years. “I am quite sure that the activity is going in that direction and the next 1-2 years are going to bring significant results […]Continue Reading
India’s reform-minded prime minister, Narendra Modi, appears to have passed a major test with a budget that pleased economists and investors with pledges to spend more on modernising India’s ageing roads and railways while keeping borrowing in check. The budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday loosened the reins on public spending to […]Continue Reading
India will push ahead with reform to a land purchase law blamed by business for slowing industrial projects, even if there is resistance to loosening the rules, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Sunday. Jaitley said changes to the law were needed to fulfil Prime Minister Modi’s vision of building 100 new “smart” cities across […]Continue Reading