Tag: Finance Ministry
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Making crop insurance scheme voluntary is ‘anti-farmer’: P Chidambaram slams Centre
The government on Wednesday made its flagship crop insurance schemes voluntary for farmers with existing crop loans or those willing to take new ones.
February 20, 2020 -
I only hope your parents don’t reduce your pocket money: Chidambaram at SRCC economic summit
Speaking at Shri Ram Economic Summit organised by the economics department of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), the Rajya Sabha MP said that ordinarily, the explanation for the failing economy should have come from the government.
February 5, 2020 -
Opposition leaders to hold strategy meeting for budget session
The session will commence on January 31 with President Ram Nath Kovind's address to a joint sitting of both houses of Parliament and continue till February 11.
January 30, 2020 -
Commerce Ministry recommends only one bottle of duty-free alcohol
In addition, it has also recommended to the Finance Ministry that purchase of cigarette cartons at duty-free shops should be banned.
January 19, 2020 -
Maharashtra cabinet portfolios: Ajit Pawar gets Finance, Aaditya Thackeray gets environment
With 44 MLAs, the Congress has got 12 ministerial berths, while Sena, with 56 MLAs, has 15 and NCP, with 54 MLAs, has 16.
January 5, 2020 -
Failure of GST returns can result in frozen account, cancellation of registrations: Reports
This move is a part of Finance Ministry’s Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), which was issued recently.
December 26, 2019 -
Lack of quota increase from International Monetary Fund disappointing: Nirmala Sitharaman
The quotas are distributed according to a four pronged formula that considers a member country’s GDP, its economic openness, its “economic variability” and international reserves.
October 20, 2019 -
BSNL to issue salaries before Diwali after employees threaten to hold hunger strike
Purwar said that the department was likely to pay the salaries to its 1.76 lakh employees from its own resources and accruals.
October 15, 2019 -
Not just Kashmir and Assam, govt wants to inflict pain countrywide: Sitaram Yechury
Reacting to news reports on failure of government schemes leaving discoms in the red, Yechury charged that government's policies have burdened the poor.
October 11, 2019 -
Nirmala Sitharaman to inaugurate national tax e-assessment centre on Monday
There will be no physical interface between the taxpayers and the tax officers, the Finance Ministry announced on Sunday.
October 6, 2019 -
15 more top tax officials made to retire by Centre over corruption, takes total to 27
The action comes a week after 12 senior income tax officers, including one of the ranks of the joint commissioner, were dismissed from service.
June 18, 2019 -
Sebi wants 10% mandatory deposit before appeals at SAT against its orders
The regulator is of the view that many a times provision to file an appeal before the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) is used as a device to delay the execution of the Sebi order.
June 2, 2019 -
Nirmala Sitharaman gets Finance Ministry, Rajnath Defence
Nirmala Sitharaman is a post-graduate in Economics will be an advantage in handling the ministry effectively.
May 31, 2019 -
Sensex ends 249 pts higher led by banking stocks
The BSE Sensex ended 248.57 points or 0.63 per cent higher to 39,683.29 after touching an intra-day high of 39,821.94 and a low of 39,353.16. The Nifty advanced by 80.65 or 0.68 per cent to 11,924.75.
May 27, 2019 -
RBI may toughen NBFCs’ access to public deposits
Even the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), sources said, could pull back from NBFC investments to avoid default risks.
May 22, 2019 -
Gloom in the numbers
At another level, puncturing a hole in the government’s claims of having added 10.6 million new taxpayers in the financial year 2016-17, some 25 per cent more than the previous year, the income-tax department now talks of the surge in “stop filers”, people earlier paying income tax but not doing so now.
May 13, 2019 -
New government to take up BSNL, MTNL revival plans: Sources
According to the source, it means that there is no immediate move, in the next few months till a new govenrment settles down, to revive both central public sector enterprises (CPSEs). Last month, the DoT had floated a draft cabinet note for consultation among ministries on the revival of BSNL and MTNL.
May 7, 2019