A Parliamentary panel is set to recommend sweeping changes to the personal income tax slabs proposed by the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill. A draft report prepared by the standing committee on

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has demanded that Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) be declared as a dedicated railway zone exclusively for the North Eastern states in this year’s railway

Succumbing to pressure from corporate houses, the Madhya Pradesh government is changing its Industry Policy 2010 mid-way its implementation. A closed-door meeting it convened with industry advisory

The Centre plans to pass the Electronic Service Delivery Bill, 2011 in the budget session of the Parliament, said V Narayanswamy, minister of state for personnel, public grievance and pension at

Setting at rest the clash over ‘Aadhar’-based reforms in the public distribution system (PDS) and the one on the National Informatics System (NIC), the food ministry on Thursday said

Close on the heels of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announcing a judicial probe into spurious liquor killings, the state excise minister A U Singh Deo who was in the line of fire of the Opposition,

Congress scion Rahul Gandhi, party president Sonia Gandhi and coal minister and U P election campaign committee in-charge Sriprakash Jaiswal have lately asserted the party would ‘go it

The process of valuation of the treasures found at the Sri Padmanabha Swami Temple at Thiruvananthapuram will officially commence from February 20. M Velayudhan Nair, coordinator of the experts

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society members may soon become a part of the civil service functioning, if the Central and state governments agree on implementing a human resources

Pulled up by the Supreme Court, the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers has set a deadline of three weeks for a final version of its draft pharma policy before the group of ministers (GoM)