Diamond major De Beers Group is eyeing a 50 per cent growth in sales in India under its Forevermark brand in 2019, which is expected to take India closer to market leader China.At around a lakh pieces...

Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) will post a modest 8 per cent growth in this fiscal, with sales of 1.8 lakh cars against 1.7 lakh cars in 2017-18. “It has been a difficult year. In the first quarter, t...

The Goods and Services Tax collection fell below the Rs 1-lakh-crore-mark to Rs 97,247 crore in February, which has raised concerns about the government meeting its revised fiscal deficit target of 3....

Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra had lobbied hard for a 1 per cent tax on affordable housing in the run-up to the meeting of the GST Council that took place on Sunday.The council, the apex decision-...

The Narendra Modi-government would be keen to push the inclusion of natural gas and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) within the ambit of the goods and services tax to promote the use of green fuel and prov...

Tourism stakeholders in Bengal urged the Centre on Monday to waive different taxes and charges and announce a corpus to help people employed in the sector in the wake of loss of business caused by the...

The Supreme Court will decide on the modalities of arresting an entity for GST evasion as different high courts have interpreted the rule in a different manner.The Bombay high court had granted protec...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to examine the powers of tax authorities to arrest an individual for Goods and Services Tax evasion. A vacation bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice A...

It was supposed to be Johnson & Johnson’s biggest manufacturing plant in India. It was to eventually employ at least 1,500 people and help bring development to a rural area near Hyderabad.Yet, t...

The GST Council on Wednesday took to voting for the first time to levy a uniform 28 per cent tax on the sale of lottery tickets across the country. The new rate will be effective from March 1, 2020.â€...