Economy

Even as the Finance Minister raised the Minimum Alternate Tax on booked profits to 18.5 per cent from 18 per cent, he brought relief to a wider ...

For companies like drug-maker Cipla who have invested about Rs 1,000 crore in its Special Economic Zone at Indore - Budget 2011’s proposal to bring ...

“The Sensex has given the budget a 21-gun salute. This means a lot more since it comes a day after the budget,” said Mr Ajit Ranade, Chief Economist ...

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BNP Paribas (Mr Manishi Raychaudhuri) The market has come to accept the Budget for what it is — an accounting exercise of the Government. We ...

While the stock markets managed to close in positive territory post-Budget, though correcting steeply from the day's high, there are divergent views ...

Mr Naveen Mathur, Associate Director – Commodities&Currencies, Angel Broking: The Government's resolve to reign in high inflation through ...

February turned out to be another good month for automakers with car and two-wheeler companies poised to end the fiscal on a high note. Reflecting the ...

Only Indian mutual funds that have a global platform or a tie up with a global MF will be able to rope in foreign investors, say industry experts.

Among the Finance Minister's Budget pronouncements on Wednesday, the one that has really caught the nation's attention is his handouts to the silver ...

Nanguneri Special Economic Zone promoter AMRL Hi-Tech City Ltd near here has signed a MoU with Great Shine Engineering Private Ltd (GSEPL), a ...

The excise duty hike announced in the Budget has come as a dampener to the small industries in Coimbatore that depend on the engineering sector for ...

Direct transfer of subsidy to farmers and BPL families, with help of the unique identity number — as proposed in Budget 2011 — could plug about 60 ...

A ‘play-it-safe' Budget with no bold reforms has also let down the healthcare sector, said Ms Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, CMD, Biocon Ltd. The Finance ...

The allocation of Rs 500 crore for the National Skill Development Fund to promote vocational skill building is a welcome move. “It ensures that new ...

Having taken on the task of creating a pool of 15 crore skilled workers by 2022, the Government has already sanctioned Rs 658 crore for 26 projects.

Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala will go to polls on April 13 to elect new assemblies, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday. In a statement, ...

Rail traffic in several parts of Andhra Pradesh, especially in and around Hyderabad, Nalagonda, Nizamabad, Warangal and Khamam districts, were ...

When hunger strikes, it doesn’t pay to be impatient. When Mr Amit Mitra announced that it would be a ‘working lunch’ session with Ms Swaraj, there ...

After his Q&A session with the captive audience was over, the Planning Commission head seemed to be in no mood to take any chances in the ...

They may be fond of putting decimal points, but when it comes to full stops, economists sometimes come across as a stingy lot. So, when the Planning ...

The direction to move to a DTC and GST regime over the next one year, and the commitment to do so by April 1, 2012, is welcome

In what could be India's first, the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) has launched a 10-month course on innovative enterprises in ...

The Pune Chapter of ASM International will organise a conference ‘World-Class Materials and Manufacturing Technologies' between March 8 and 10 at the ...