Solid waste management and water supply were allocated the maximum share of funds in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation budget presented on Tuesday. Solid waste management has been allocated Rs 606 c...

Referring to the comment made by Sitharaman that Covid-19 was “an act of God”, roiling the economy and leading to a huge shortfall in GST collection, Mitra argued that the economy was alre...

Tax reforms in India are part of a broader set of fiscal reforms. The first attempt to modernize and rationalize India’s fiscal strategy was carried out by Rajiv Gandhi in 1985 with the ‘L...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch a platform to honour the country’s honest taxpayers on Thursday. The “taxpayer charter” is expected to have statutory status and will empower...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw for a year the conditions for raising the borrowing limit to 5 per cent of a state’s GDP to ensure that B...

Viral Acharya, the former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has warned against the central bank monetising the government’s budget deficit, citing risks to inflation and extern...

An impending change in the mode of stamp duty collection on transaction of shares from July 1 may prod some of the city-based brokers to consider relocating part of their business to the Gift City in ...

Hamstrung by a funds crunch, some of Calcutta’s big pujas have decided to pull out of the Puja Carnival on Red Road.At least three big pujas — two from south Calcutta and one from the north — wi...

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday called for more structural reforms, and suggested the Centre frontload its budgeted capital expenditure to put growth back on track.The government has limited ...

The Covid-19 pandemic is an inflection point in modern history. Never before has healthcare taken such a pivotal place among key issues as it does today; so much so that a global pandemic is also bein...