Written By Rahul Shrivastava

The one rupee note will be back after 22 years. The government today said the smallest denomination note is printed and ready for release soon. The Re 1 note was discontinued in 1994. The next year, Rs 2 and Rs 5 notes were also pulled out to free printing facilities for higher denomination notes. The old notes are still in circulation and remain l...

The step is in keeping with plans to make India an easier place to do business, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.

Armed by a recent change in law that gives it to more power to act, the Reserve Bank of India has said it will expand its two-member Oversight Committee as it puts in gear a plan to resolve the massive backlog of non-performing assets or bad loans that public sector banks have built.

The government has been caught unawares by an objection of a different kind: There is no clarity on tax slabs for puja and hawan material.

The Goods and Services Tax or GST could bring good news for crores in the country. A crucial meeting of the GST Council on Thursday finalised tax rates for over 1,000 commodities that makes sure people will not have to pay more when India's biggest tax reform in decades kicks in on July 1. In fact, the government announced that food items - pulses,...

A day after the Chennai home of P Chidambaram was raided in an inquiry to determine if foreign investment proposals were illicitly cleared by him while he was Finance Minister, the cabinet met today to decide whether to dissolve the Foreign Investment Proposal Board or FIPB.

Six months after PM Narendra Modi scrapped high value 500 and 1,000-rupee notes the centre has something to cheer. Before the unprecedented November 8 decision to cancel 86 percent of currency in circulation there were nearly five crore tax payers in India but since then nearly 91 lakh people have been added to the list of tax paying Indians, Finan...

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP's ideological mentor, will for the first time hold a crucial meeting of pracharaks or field workers in Jammu and Kashmir over three days in July this year. The RSS is worried over continuing unrest in the state, where the BJP partners chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Front in the gov...

Flattened by the BJP in this year's Uttar Pradesh elections, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party is in the middle of its worst crisis since 2003, when a section of party legislators had split to help arch rival Mulayam Singh Yadav come to power in the state. On Wednesday, Ms Mayawati expelled one of her closest aides and the party's Muslim face Naseemud...

Celebrations to mark the government's third anniversary will derive much substance from the personal brand of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will last 20 days. PM Modi will personally lead five programs, the first of which will be held in Guwahati in Assam.

Ravindra Gaikwad, the Shiv Sena parliamentarian who assaulted an Air India manager on a plane, has forged an epochal moment for India. For the first time ever, rules are being announced for a "no-fly" list that will prevent passengers with a record of unruliness from boarding a flight.

The ordinance is aimed at empowering RBI to deal more effectively with stressed assets than earlier.

Hours after two Indian soldiers were killed and mutilated at the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, the army and Union minister Arun Jaitley warned Pakistan of "appropriate response", indicating that India will retaliate over and beyond the heavy counter-fire the forces resorted to on Monday. But sources indicate that within the government, ther...

Head Constable Prem Sagar and Naib Subedar Paramjeet Singh, who belonged to the three-member team, were killed and their bodies were mutilated. The men behind the attack had crossed the Line of Control, which serves as a de facto border, under the cover fire of the Pakistani Army.

After cricketer Gautam Gambhir announced that his foundation will take care of all the education expenses of children of 25 CRPF personnel martyred in an attack by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Sukma, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers have decided to adopt the families of the martyred soldiers of the Indian armed and paramilitary forces....

The one rupee note will be back after 22 years. The government today said the smallest denomination note is printed and ready for release soon. The Re 1 note was discontinued in 1994. The next year, Rs 2 and Rs 5 notes were also pulled out to free printing facilities for higher denomination notes. The old notes are still in circulation and remain l...

The step is in keeping with plans to make India an easier place to do business, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.

Armed by a recent change in law that gives it to more power to act, the Reserve Bank of India has said it will expand its two-member Oversight Committee as it puts in gear a plan to resolve the massive backlog of non-performing assets or bad loans that public sector banks have built.

The government has been caught unawares by an objection of a different kind: There is no clarity on tax slabs for puja and hawan material.

The Goods and Services Tax or GST could bring good news for crores in the country. A crucial meeting of the GST Council on Thursday finalised tax rates for over 1,000 commodities that makes sure people will not have to pay more when India's biggest tax reform in decades kicks in on July 1. In fact, the government announced that food items - pulses,...

A day after the Chennai home of P Chidambaram was raided in an inquiry to determine if foreign investment proposals were illicitly cleared by him while he was Finance Minister, the cabinet met today to decide whether to dissolve the Foreign Investment Proposal Board or FIPB.

Six months after PM Narendra Modi scrapped high value 500 and 1,000-rupee notes the centre has something to cheer. Before the unprecedented November 8 decision to cancel 86 percent of currency in circulation there were nearly five crore tax payers in India but since then nearly 91 lakh people have been added to the list of tax paying Indians, Finan...

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP's ideological mentor, will for the first time hold a crucial meeting of pracharaks or field workers in Jammu and Kashmir over three days in July this year. The RSS is worried over continuing unrest in the state, where the BJP partners chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Front in the gov...

Flattened by the BJP in this year's Uttar Pradesh elections, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party is in the middle of its worst crisis since 2003, when a section of party legislators had split to help arch rival Mulayam Singh Yadav come to power in the state. On Wednesday, Ms Mayawati expelled one of her closest aides and the party's Muslim face Naseemud...

Celebrations to mark the government's third anniversary will derive much substance from the personal brand of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will last 20 days. PM Modi will personally lead five programs, the first of which will be held in Guwahati in Assam.

Ravindra Gaikwad, the Shiv Sena parliamentarian who assaulted an Air India manager on a plane, has forged an epochal moment for India. For the first time ever, rules are being announced for a "no-fly" list that will prevent passengers with a record of unruliness from boarding a flight.

The ordinance is aimed at empowering RBI to deal more effectively with stressed assets than earlier.

Hours after two Indian soldiers were killed and mutilated at the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, the army and Union minister Arun Jaitley warned Pakistan of "appropriate response", indicating that India will retaliate over and beyond the heavy counter-fire the forces resorted to on Monday. But sources indicate that within the government, ther...

Head Constable Prem Sagar and Naib Subedar Paramjeet Singh, who belonged to the three-member team, were killed and their bodies were mutilated. The men behind the attack had crossed the Line of Control, which serves as a de facto border, under the cover fire of the Pakistani Army.

After cricketer Gautam Gambhir announced that his foundation will take care of all the education expenses of children of 25 CRPF personnel martyred in an attack by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Sukma, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers have decided to adopt the families of the martyred soldiers of the Indian armed and paramilitary forces....