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NITI Aayog CEO Kant asserted that it is not governments business to decide what tourists should eat or drink. (Photo: ANI)

Indian states can't get into what tourists eat, drink: NITI Aayog CEO

The NITI Aayog CEO also said, "Tourism is essentially civilisational in character, one can't have garbage and say we...

7 Oct 2017 10:40 AM IST

Sanjeev Sanyal, principal economic adviser at the Finance Ministry.

Govt adviser says consolidation may lead to 10-15 state banks

The government may cut its stakes in state-run banks to 52 per cent.

6 Oct 2017 11:07 AM IST

Union minister of railways Piyush Goyal at the India Economic Summit 2017 in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Railways can create 10L jobs, says Piyush Goyal

The comments of the new railways minister come after a spate of rail accidents in the last few month leading to loss of...

6 Oct 2017 3:34 AM IST

Mastercard has over USD 4.5 billion worth of investment in India.

Mastercard open to acquisitions in India, to invest $800 million

India accounts for 3 per cent of the company's global revenues and 14 per cent of its employee strength.

5 Oct 2017 1:55 PM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a 2014 World Economic Forum, WEF, event. (Photo: File/PTI)

Jaitley, who's who of India Inc, Bollywood biggies to attend WEF event

More than 650 leaders from 35 countries taking part in event organised by World Economic Forum and CII.

3 Oct 2017 7:16 PM IST

In 2016, the UK dropped from the 18th position to the 20th in the World Economic Forums annual Global Gender Gap Report, due to a slight drop in female representation in politics and business. (Photo: Pixabay/Representational)

Women in Britain are 100 yrs behind equal pay

The pay gap between men and women in Britain stands at 14.1 percent, unchanged over the past two years.

11 Nov 2017 5:38 PM IST

The tax for the real estate has gone up from 12 per cent to 18 per cent.

India slips rank in WEF's most competitive economy index

Out of 137 economies, Switzerland tops list, followed by US and Singapore in second and third places.

27 Sept 2017 11:05 AM IST

The argument put forward by the leaders of the BJP and others was that India did not depend on exports for its economic growth, and that the huge domestic market and the consumption it entailed was good enough to keep the economy in shape and the global developments were marginal. (Representational image)

India ranked 58th most competitive economy in WEF index

India's rank rose by five places from 2017, the largest gain among G20 economies.

17 Oct 2018 8:40 AM IST

Today, the way we consume is wasteful. We extract resources, use them to produce goods and services, often wastefully, and then sell them and discard them.

Going full circle for growth and the planet

The goal is to embed sustainability into industries which we depend on for our jobs,prosperity and well-being.

9 Oct 2018 12:11 AM IST

To improve ease of doing business, a new scheme of self-assessment-based duty-free procurement of inputs required for exports has been introduced.

Ease of doing biz: Get the right indexes right

In the real India, it still takes 156 days to get a building plan sanctioned, and 1,445 days in court to get a judicial...

2 Nov 2018 12:20 AM IST

A professional tax is proposed to be levied on individuals, who have an annual income of Rs 5 lakh. This would generate Rs 5 crore, the budget document read.

Expand gender budget, it's time to end neglect

Higher Budget allocations could be used to grab media headlines, but it's the utilisation that matters.

31 Jan 2018 1:26 AM IST

US President Donald Trump, addresses a plenary session during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos. (Photo: AP)

Trump wins over Davos

Free trade in the increasingly interconnected global scenario would appear to be something all countries would actively...

28 Jan 2018 12:09 AM IST