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Why human trafficking law is too little, too late

While existing laws are not enough to deal with human trafficking, the proposed law has serious lacunae, which need to be fixed, say experts

Job creation will drive next phase of reforms

Make in India will not happen if land and labour reforms are not addressed

Shifting directives on a fluid dispute

In the light of a judgment, CBEC has said in the case of all bulk liquid cargo import, whether for home consumption or warehousing, the shore tank receipt quantity should be taken as the basis for lev

StatsGuru: Tackling the NPA problem in public sector banks

Financial position of India's public sector bankshas deteriorated sharply over the past financial year

DGFT needs to cut this red tape

Child Labour Amendment Bill: Welcome move, but concerns persist

Need of the hour is to eliminate all forms of child labour up to the age of 18 years

In Tamil Nadu, a port project divides opinion

While villagers say the trans-shipment project will threaten their livelihood, those in favour of the project call the opposition politically motivated

Morgan Stanley revises down global growth forecast

Recently, Goldman Sachs too had echoed a similar view, revising its global growth forecasts downward to 3% - 3.5% for H2CY16

Duty-free shops and what they should do

Kerosene may not go the diesel way

The staggered increase in kerosene rate may not have the same impact of freeing up the fuel price as for diesel

'Old interest rates apply for failure to pay service tax in Dec 2015'

New notification changes interest prospectively and will not apply to omission to pay service tax before May 14, 2016

Seeing some reason after much time

CBEC justified this on the ground that mere filing of an appeal does not operate as a stay or suspension of the order appealed against

Commodity prices, construction key for rural economy: Icra

The earnings of rural households over the last few years have been impacted by modest hikes in Minimum Support Prices

How the UP government solved the land acquisition puzzle

State paid four times circle rate in rural areas and twice in urban areas, to acquire land from 30,700 farmers across seven districts for the Agra-Lucknow expressway

Rajanspeak: Quotable quotes from the outgoing RBI Governor

Raghuram Rajan was known to speak his mind. Business Standard brings you some of his most memorable quotes

How politics played a role behind the scenes

Swamy was just the last straw; Rajan's views on intolerance, differences with FM, opposition from RSS were earlier signs of the end of his tenure as RBI Governor

Odisha: Of unkept promises and chasing big-ticket investments

The bulk of the Rs 8.8 lakh crore of investments the Naveen Patnaik government has attracted over the years is in uncertain territory

Measuring the impact of pay hikes

Business Standard takes a detailed look at the impact of the Central Pay Commission hikes on 12 key states

Maharashtra: Fadnavis readies for Rs 21,000-cr mega blow

State govt to set up committee to implement 7th Pay Commission report

Punjab: Financially unfit to implement Centre-like pay hike

Punjab has over 400,000 employees and pensioners and about 125,000 staff members in its corporations and boards