As the nation waits with bated breath for the outcome of the GST Council meeting today to determine taxation on Covid essentials, we look back at the first Chairman of the committee to frame the tax, which was called the country’s biggest tax reform since Independence
The share of all currency notes except Rs 500, Rs 200 and Rs 20 in the economy dipped in Covid-hit FY21 compared to the previous year
Microfinance institutions further the cause of financial inclusion as they lend to those who are often too poor to get loans according to conventional banking norms
QuantEco has said its economic activity index recorded the slowest pace of contraction since the week ending March 14 even as SBI and Barclays pegged nominal GDP loss around Rs 5.4-6 lakh crore in Q1
However, many of the respondents did not adhere to basic security norms like not sharing passwords or PINs or OTPs
The seat of the last independent nawabs of eastern India is famous for more than 200 varieties of mangoes that were created through exotic means from the time of the Mughals
Consumer confidence, measured by CMIE, fell for the fifth consecutive week ending May 16
While as many as 13 of 15 sectors witnessed sharp degrowth in sales in Q1, sales of only one sector remained in the contraction zone in Q4 while overall profits zoomed in the last quarter
The consumption of LPG in April has gone down 6.5% compared to March
Since April 2020, its consumption steadily rose till March this year before it dropped in April