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J&K Budget bugle: Uniform Labour Code, State Finance Commission, and more

Total expenditure for 2018-19 is estimated to be Rs 803.13 billion, a 15.2 per cent increase over the revised estimates of 2017-18

'Suit-boot' comeback: War of words over Rahul Gandhi's jacket

An unfazed Gandhi said: There is a particular distance he (Narendra Modi) maintains with the poor people which he does not with Mr Obama or others,"

Periscope: Wait for Budget 2018, winter session of WB Assembly, and more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Bengaluru to address a rally next Sunday

BJP and AAP spar over Tipu Sultan's portrait in Delhi assembly

Ram Niwas Goel: The Constitution carries a picture of Tipu Sultan on page 144, so either the people who fought the British to free the country and wrote this Constitution were traitors or BJP is

Rahul Gandhi to start campaign in poll-bound Meghalaya on January 30

Meghalaya will go to polls on February 27 and the results will be announced on March 3.

Mumbai local trains: Big B tweets video of passengers shoving each other

While most brushed it off saying it was a daily ritual for them, many said the government should first set up a world class local train service for Mumbai and then start on the bullet train project

Letter to BS on FRDI Bill and increase in deposit insurance coverage

The DICGC had last increased the limit of deposit insurance 25 years back in 1993 from Rs 30,000 to Rs 100,000.

Deal or no deal: Letter to BS on ONGC's HPCL acquisition

The fact that the government is a major shareholder in ONGC means that really nothing has changed

Letter to BS on Govt hikes duty drawback rates on 102 exports items

The sufferings of the leather industry can be wiped out if 100 per cent taxes is compensated by way of duty drawback, not a mere 0.3 per cent

Act fast on RCEP: India-Asean trade growth has been underwhelming

India's achievement in terms of growing trade relations with Asean has been underwhelming

Data Tracker: Here are the five steps to build trust with consumers, data

A recent study by Kantar TNS looks at the contentious issue of data exchange and what it means for brands.

Hold your horses: Equities are expensive but reasons are not enough to exit

There are indications that a double-digit earnings recovery for the corporate sector is not far

Verifying credible news

Facebook's idea of user surveys is fraught with risks

A treasure(d) question: Who will be the new Congress Treasurer after Vora?

Motilal Vora who has been holding charge since 2001 is 89

The Shiv Sena-BJP break-up: So whom does the NDA belong to, anyway?

The depart from the National Democratic Alliance might not have come as a surprise to the Bharatiya Janata Party

GRAPHIC: The countries that trust their government most and least

Indians also have a high degree of trust in their government, with 7 of every 10 people trusting it

From Hasmukh Adhia to Arvind Subramanian, here's Arun Jaitley's Budget team

This is the team that will spearhead what will essentially be the Prime Minister's vision document for 2019

How India's top mutual fund bosses are managing great expectations

Steady inflows into equities and rising markets are keeping India's top fund managers on their toes. Find out how they are selecting stocks

World Bank needs to restore the credibility of 'ease of doing biz' rankings

Two researchers from the Centre for Global Development (CGDev) have shown how changes in the methodology may have negatively portrayed Chile when it was ruled by the socialist president, Michelle Bach

CRISIL SME TRACKER: West Bengal cold storages run into rental wall

Besides renting out, these cold storages also provide advances to farmers and traders in lieu of cold storage receipts, which account for two-thirds of the assets of cold storages in Bengal