Opposition parties have sought a discussion in Lok Sabha on the issues of economic slowdown, unemployment and standoff between Indian and Chinese forces during a meeting of floor leaders of the House ...

The Centre has declared the Covid-19 pandemic as an “act of god”. Does this imply that the force majeure clause can be invoked to cover contractual obligations? The term, fo...

The number of states opposed to the Centre’s GST compensation policy far outnumber those in favour, but a tilted voting rule may see the Centre carry the day at the GST council meeting on Thursd...

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Centre not giving full GST compensation to states, saying this “act of sovereign default” runs agai...

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to advise the finance ministry not to transfer the burden of GST on the states and instead follow the comp...

Mamata’s party has planned extensive protest programmes on September 8, 14 and 20 across Bengal against the alleged deprivation of the state by the Centre. Announcing the decision, Trinamul sec...

Chief ministers of six non-BJP-ruled states, including Mamata Banerjee,  Pinarayi Vijayan and Arvind Kejriwal, have written to the Centre to remind it of its "constitutional" responsibi...

The income tax authorities can share information with scheduled commercial banks, a move that would ease the lenders’ hassle of deciding TDS deductibility on various payments to their customers....

States may propose a counter offer to the Centre to meet the shortfall in collection of cess meant for paying GST compensation to the states. Under the broad contours of the offer, which was discusse...

The relation between the Centre and the states is not that of “giver and taker” and the GST Council will have to work out a mid-way solution for the GST collection shortfall keeping in min...