Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: On fears of Coronavirus and global cues, Indian stock markets tumbled on Monday ahead of Holi with both BSE and NSE crashing. The BSE Sensex plunged 1,653.30 points or 4.40 per cent to 35,951.56 leaving investors nervous in the early trade. The Nifty 50Continue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: Aiming to boost purchasing power of people, FM Nirmala Sitharaman has on Saturday announced a new simplified tax regime in the Union Budget 2020-21. Under the revised regime, individual earning up to Rs 5 lakh will not be required to pay any tax. Those earningContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: Ahead of the annual jamboree of top business tycoons, political leaders and policy-makers in Davos, global NGO Oxfam in its report has said that world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60% of the world population. “OurContinue Reading
Share List Parmita Uniyal New Delhi: Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and Rajya Sabha member Binoy Viswam would vehemently oppose Modi government’s move to sell PSUs and lease out profitable airports to private companies in the upcoming budget session that kicks off on January 31. Stating that BJP talksContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: The Ministries of Finance and Law have given their concurrence to privatization of another six Airports Authority of India (AAI)-run airports thus paving the way for bidding them out in the next few months. The six airports proposed to be leased out on PPPContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: Senior Airports Authority of India (AAI) management has assured employee unions that there will not be job loss even as more state-run airports are leased out to private companies. Instead, it will hire manpower to meet the growing need of running the airports beingContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: The government has maintained that a robust regulatory mechanism would guarantee flying cost does not increase after privatization of airports but the past experience says otherwise. Aviation sector experts contend that there would be massive increase in non-aeronautical charges at privatised airports and asContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: Pre-empting points of discussion between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amazon top boss Jeff Bezos during the latter’s meeting on January 15, local traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has sought a hearing with the PM before Bezos comes calling. The traders’Continue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: The Central and the State GST authorities cannot go after taxpayers and launch parallel enquiries in the same case. While Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) had clarified the same in a circular last year, the latest Gujarat High Court order onContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: In one of the most scathing attack on government’s disinvestment programme, RSS-affiliate Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has said that pro-privatization lobby has painted the PSUs as inefficient and government think tank Niti Aayog was working merely as an agent to facilitate strategic sale. “Previously,Continue Reading