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Union finance minister Arun Jaitley speaks to the media after returning from his trip to UK in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

360 Degree: One nation one tax

The largest criticism has been that time given to industry and businesses to respond and react to changes evolved in...

2 April 2017 6:36 AM IST

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley at GST Council Meeting, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

16 Things you should know about the Finance Act 2017

At present for capital assets acquired before 1st April 1981, FMV on 1st April 1981 can be substituted.

2 April 2017 6:30 AM IST

A four-tax rate structure for GST is a practical way forward'

The industry wants GST to be implemented as soon as possible, says Naushad Forbes.

2 April 2017 5:16 AM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Unsafe data

The continuing face-off between Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's government and the state's bureaucrats has deepened the crisis.

2 April 2017 5:15 AM IST

Cow slaughter is also a non-bailable offence now. (Representational Image)

Where is our individual freedom?

India pretends it has a Constitution that is not linked to any particular religion.

2 April 2017 5:14 AM IST

State Bank of India

India has behemoth of a bank

As the largest public bank it owes the nation a duty to be a sensible lender striking a balance between big and small in...

2 April 2017 5:13 AM IST

If this were indeed true, it would be suggestive of the fact that the incidence of cow slaughter had been rising in Gujarat under the nose of the BJP government, which has been in power for close to 15 years. (Photo: AP)

Gujarat's law on cow slaughter is absurd

There are two visually arresting aspects of the passage of the amendments in the state Assembly.

2 April 2017 5:12 AM IST

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Mr Sidhu, please uphold the dignity of your office

Sidhu's wife and former state legislator Navjot Kaur Sidhu said her family had no other source of income.

2 April 2017 5:11 AM IST

Uttarakhand High Court

Humanising rivers: An incomplete idea

The language of the Uttarakhand judgment is almost telegraphic.

2 April 2017 5:11 AM IST

Aftermath of talaq: UK's isolation?

Those are the people that British Prime Minister Theresa May represented as she sent the divorce papers to the European...

1 April 2017 3:03 AM IST

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu with PM Narendra Modi

Modi & Israel: Some points to ponder

During the 1999 Kargil war Israel supplied precision-guided munitions for eliminating Pakistani raiders from their...

1 April 2017 3:02 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

India now yearns for a strong Opposition

Oxymoronically, it is the great Indian middle class that is now feeling insecure with the electoral choices they have...

1 April 2017 3:01 AM IST