Economy

Direct tax collection grows by 4.46% in 2020-21

Direct tax collections for 2020-21 show that net collections at Rs 9.45 lakh crore represent 104.46 per cent of the revised estimates of Rs 9.05 lakh crore

Read More  By :THC Bureau 09 Apr 2021, 10:07

Flip-flop over small savings schemes shows lack of economic thinking

Narendra Modi government’s flip-flop over small savings schemes shows its casual approach towards important economic issues and disregard for the interests of its core constituency—the middle class

Read More  By :Rajesh Dikshit 01 Apr 2021, 11:40

RSS-linked body BMS scuttles GM tries, hurts seed industry

RSS bodies like Bharatiya Kisan Sangh and Swadeshi Jagran Manch have become the bane of sound economic and agricultural policies

Read More  By :Mahesh Anand 28 Mar 2021, 02:09

Niti’s Amitabh Kant urges PE funds to invest in privatization

The most entrenched and dogged among the opponents of privatization are from the Sangh Parivar

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Mar 2021, 02:07

Standing Committee report on Essential Commodities Act exposes Oppn’s hypocrisy

Oppn supports amendment to Essential Commodities Act at Standing Committee but opposes elsewhere

Read More  By :Mahesh Anand 20 Mar 2021, 09:00

When capitalists undermine capitalism

The capitalists, Lenin said, will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. He was wrong: capitalists are...

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 12 Jul 2020, 11:41

50 years of bane called bank nationalization

Half a century ago, a day before Neil Armstrong’s “one giant leap for mankind,” Indira Gandhi made a giant stride—to...

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Jul 2019, 02:37

The oneness syndrome

The Narendra Modi government’s keenness on ‘one nation, simultaneous elections’ becomes evident from the fact that President Ram Nath Kovind,...

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 28 Jun 2019, 12:28

Politicians have made Delhi a gas chamber

Fire-fighting seems to be the only mode that the authorities in India adopt in their response to grave problems. So,...

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Oct 2018, 02:00

Attacks on migrant laborers expose Gujarat Model

It is legitimate for Congress president Rahul Gandhi to slam the Bharatiya Janata Party for its incompetence and worse. Equally...

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Oct 2018, 08:01