Campaigning comes to an end, GCCI polls today

(CIDM) organized New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI-NewsVoir): Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) jointly with Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), National Disaster Management Authority of India (NDMA) with the Government ...

New GST rates are between 5-18% on sectoral products Stakeholders from the textile industry in Tamil Nadu are in a three-day strike against the decision to impose the new goods and srvices tax (GST) at rates between five and 18 per cent on sectoral products. Members of the Tamil Nadu Power Loom Federation are in strike in Salem, Karur and Namakkal districts against GST and seeking to exempt the industry from the tax. Around 150,000 power loom units are participating. Owners say they pay tax ...

Now that the Modi government has completed three years of its national federal governance, one must look back to understand the policy trajectory and its outcomes, and also the way forward. When the government was sworn in, in 2014, India was running the risk ...

Posted by Equitymaster Global financial markets ended the week in the green with most of the indices ending in the positive territory. Barring Germany and Japan, all the indices were gainers in the week gone by. The buoyancy was led by the US Federal ...

Following returns of about 17 per cent from benchmark indices in the first half of 2017, the focus has shifted to the second half of the year. Financial Chronicle spoke to leading brokers and asked them to name their top picks for the second half of 2017 that ...

People train to prevail — in the street, in the alley, in combat, on the field, in the ring and a zillion other places. Even in an office, you have to be mentally strong to stay ahead in a competitive set. The training may not necessarily be physical, but ...

Naresh Chandra -- distinguished civil servant and diplomat -- passed into the ages on Sunday, July 9.Ambassador T P Sreenivasan salutes a patriot like none other. IMAGE: Naresh Chandra, presents his credentials as India's ambassador to the US, to then US President Bill Clinton, April 30, 1996.   What Cassius said about Julius Caesar, 'Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus' is true of Ambassador Naresh Chandra, who passed away on July 9, 2017, literally and ...

Paresh Rawal is one of the finest actors that we have today. In a chat with a group of journalists recently, Paresh Rawal spoke about a host of things. Bollywood Hungama’s Faridoon Shahryar was part of this group of journalists. Here are a few excerpts from ...

Scattered protests and strikes greeted the rollout of what is being called India’s biggest tax reform — the Goods and Services Tax — on day-one on Saturday. Across the country, some of the trade unions and those affected demonstrated against ...