Sitharaman removes capital gains surcharge, withdraws provision that said CSR violations would be treated as a criminal offence...

Estimated revenue loss because of the exemption would be about Rs 400 crore...

It reflects the tendency to tighten control over autonomous institutions, and indicates an unhealthy fisc...

Nirmala Sitharaman said 'in the next few years', but what does that mean in terms of actual numbers?...

There are worries that the government is using off-budgetary resources to hide its ballooning expenditure...

The super-rich should contribute more to the society and nation building, Sitharaman said...

The tremors could rock domestic bond markets, raising the frightening prospect of a ‘foreign tail wagging an Indian dog’...

A sterling specimen of professional pessimism is built right into the $5-trillion goal...

To dine or not to dine when access is denied...

Finance minister says: 'The contempt, the slight, the indifference, the subtle tongue-in-cheek… therefore I had to come out fairly strongly on this'...