An old saying popular with bureaucrats is that a state’s law and order situation goes to the dogs when the chief minister starts directly talking to his director general of police. The

Fearing any special dispensation to Vodafone by way of a penalty waiver could create an uproar in Parliament and enrage companies that have already paid tax in similar deals, the finance ministry

The finance ministry issued tax refunds of Rs 98,000 crore in 2011-12, as against Rs 74,000 crore in the previous year, as about half the country’s taxpayers filed their returns online.