Govt appoints Hasmukh Adhia as chairman of Bank of Baroda

Bank of Baroda is set to become third largest lender of the country after amalgamation with Vijaya and Dena Bank effective April 1.

Dilli Ka Babu: No extension for Hasmukh Adhia?

The next bureaucrat in line to be designated the finance secretary is expenditure secretary Ajay Narayan Jha, a 1982-batch Manipur cadre officer.

According to sources, the new rules would affect nearly 533 posts of assistant commissioner and deputy superintendent of police.

GST collections stood at Rs 94,016 crore in May, Rs 95,610 crore in June, Rs 96,483 crore in July and Rs 93,960 crore in August.

Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia has started meeting with GST officers, both from central and state tax departments.

GST collection for month of July touched Rs 96,483 cr, slightly higher than Rs 95,610 cr collected in June.

Wasteful use of capital is hardwired into a system which prices capital cheaply.

The finance ministry has expressed its intention to include natural gas and ATF within the purview of the goods and services tax soon.

Currently, diesel, petrol, crude oil, natural gas and aviation turbine fuel are outside the purview of GST.

After registering highest GST collections of Rs 1,03,458 cr in April, revenue has fallen to Rs 94,016 cr in May.