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Avail of cash scheme if you have planned expenses in festive season

Employees need not miss out on LTC benefit in the current block of 4 years

Govt yet to take a call on challenging Vodafone tax arbitration award

While the cost implication in the case is limited to having to pay Rs 85 crore to Vodafone in legal cost, what is weighing on the government mind is a separate arbitration involving UK's Cairn Energy

Modi will never take any steps to hurt Punjab farmers: Hardeep Puri

Accusing opposition parties of spreading lies and illusions over the new farm laws, the Union civil aviation minister asserted that there was nothing in the new legislations that will affect farmers

More fiscal boosters needed to help revive battered economy: Analysts

Economists at SBI Research and Wall Street brokerage BofA Securities on Tuesday pegged fiscal deficit at elevated 9.5 per cent and 12.7 per cent of the GDP

Stimulus 2.0: FM bets on demand gain for revival. Will the needle move?

The LTC tweak and festival advance will nudge government employees to spend Rs 36,000 crore extra this year

Higher capital expenditure could help states deal with projects: Experts

The central allocation of Rs 25,000 crore, in addition to Rs 4.13 trillion given in the Union Budget, would be provided to states for capital expenditure

Women and power-sharing: Only a few in positions of political clout

Whether reservation for women in Parliament is the right tool for empowerment is a debatable issu

Will the Modi govt's 'second push' get it right on the economy?

From an economic standpoint, the success of the Modi govt's recent policy and legislative action would depend more on interlocking process changes than on one-time announcements, writes T N Ninan

Modi govt will fulfill Paswan's promises for development of Bihar: Shah

In a series of tweets in Hindi, Shah said the Modi government is committed to fulfil his commitments towards welfare of the poor and development of Bihar

Deep Dive with AKB: GST row and the question of cooperative federalism

When the coronavirus pandemic has hit the Indian economy hard and squeezed government revenues, we are seeing quite a row between the Centre and states over GST compensation.

Deep Dive with AKB: GST row and the question of cooperative federalism

When the coronavirus pandemic has hit the Indian economy hard and squeezed government revenues, we are seeing quite a row between the Centre and states over GST compensation.

Ground Zero: New agriculture law may not spell the end of commission agents

The last of a two-part series finds how farmers in Punjab depend on commission agents for credit

Necessary, not sufficient: Labour reforms a good start; will we see more jobs now?

If the law changes work, everyone can celebrate. If not, it will be for want of reforms in several other areas like land, transport, electricity, and tax laws, writes T N Ninan

Budget 2021: Finance Ministry to kick-start budgetary exercise from Oct 16

It will be the third budget of the Modi 2.0 government and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

We are converting crisis into opportunity, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman

People have every right to think whether fiscal support was adequate or whether it wasn't. As regards any further help or stimulus, I've kept my options open, said FM Sitharaman

Centre notifies three labour codes subsuming 25 laws after President's nod

The new labour laws will be made effective by the government later

EV push: Govt plans $4.6 billion in incentives for battery makers

The proposal is likely to be reviewed by Modi's Cabinet in the coming weeks

The harm that orthodoxy does

The less the better, because once again that's not how governments or central banks can, or should, work. Indeed, they can't.

Protests over farm Bills continue; PM Modi accuses Opposition of 'lying'

Modi tells BJP workers to reach out to farmers, bust propaganda

Fixing farm income is not so simple; govt must take the hard path

The debate must go beyond the binaries spun out by politicians who either condemn the new farm Bills or consider them the agricultural equivalent of the 1991 de-licensing of industry, writes T N Ninan