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State MSMEs received investment of Rs 13,000 crore in Eleventh Plan

UP has formulated its own start-up policy to promote entrepreneurship through a supportive framework

Ready for a quantum leap

With investments totalling Rs 40,000 crore in the pipeline, Uttar Pradesh is poised for a take-off

Bharat beats India in household consumption

Household consumption of FMCG products in villages grows at almost double the pace of urban areas in 2015, show IMRB data

Excise brass displays a welcome change

EY Survey on reporting standards: What spooks corporate India?

In the survey, respondents said there was a need to improve the information technology infrastructure to improve reporting. Forty-eight per cent of the Indian respondents identified data consistency a

Tax shadow over deals with unhelpful jurisdictions

Madras HC on tax havens and non-cooperative jurisdictions

Curbing the power of regulation

The power regulator and the sector can learn from a 5-year legal battle and an order by the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity

Kerala loses claim on atomic minerals

SC should ensure speedy trials rather than listing defaulters

Naming defaulters will not serve any purpose, nor will it change anything; it might, however, end up hampering any attempts at reviving a struggling business

It's just monsoon euphoria, caution economists

Economists advise caution, say more granular data on monsoon needed before celebrating a bump-up in economic growth

Proposal to jail celebrity brand ambassadors for misleading ads ridiculous, say brand experts

A formal report on the proposal by a Parliamentary Committee to fine or even jail brand ambassadors in misleading ads is expected soon

Rural themes to get a monsoon boost

Consumer, auto, financing and agri-input segments will be biggest beneficiaries

All you need to know about UPI, the Unified Payment Interface

The UPI technology promises to change the way Indians carry out transactions, and aims to move to a largely cashless economy at the retail level

All you need to know about the Employee Provident Fund

EPF has traditionally been the only tool for Indians, especially the salaried class, to save for their retirement corpus.

Making a case for taxing farm incomes

If income from agriculture was taxed on a par with other incomes, it could have fetched an additional revenue of Rs 50,000 crore in 2007-08 alone

Guarding their turf

Business reacted with caution to the reforms of 1991, and demanded protection from multinationals and imports. Twenty-five years later, traces of that demand can still be found

Leave IPL alone; water-guzzling sugarcane is the real culprit

Of 650 billion cubic metres of water available for irrigation nationwide, 15%, or 100 BCM of water, is used by sugarcane , which is planted on no more than 2.5% of India's farmland

Seeking to boost investment with upstream reforms

Despite ONGC making a record investment after policy changes in upstream oil and gas sector, others are yet to follow suit

E-retailers search for a way out of policy riders

As online players cope with new rules on pricing and sales,some say it could be business as usual

5 key takeaways from RBI's Monetary Policy review

Over the last fortnight, the clamour for a 50bps rate cut grew stronger, with the RBI cutting rates on small savings instruments