A simple act like reducing stand duty could be a strong enabler for home buyers returning to the market and keeping the cash inflows of the real estate sector intact

\"Lightening the balance sheet of the government means divestment and monetising their investments. That is the way to go. If you look at it globally, that is how things have worked out,\" says Krishan

Budget 2021 would be unprecedented in many ways, as the government would have to focus on providing stimulus packages to revive the economy, while also identifying other avenues of revenue to bridge the widening fiscal deficit

Need to raise rural incomes and multiply opportunities for enhancing livelihoods

The Bitcoin prices may have corrected about 25 per cent in last three days. It had shot through the roof over the last few months - from $6000-odd in April to $41,946.74 as on January 8, its all-time high. It hit a day's low of $30,549.60 on Monday

A pick-up in luxury real estate has been the silver lining from the pandemic crisis, and with almost everyone banking on a sharp V-shaped recovery with the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccination, 2021 is poised to be a strong one, for high-value home transactions

Chaos at Delhi airport as UK-India flights resume, flyers complain against 7-day quarantine Chaotic scenes were witnessed at the Delhi airport on Friday as many passengers arriving from the UK vociferously complained against the national capital government's belated decision to make seven-day institutional quarantine compulsory for them irrespective of their COVID-19 test results. Passenger flights resumed from the UK to India in limited numbers from Friday onwards after remaining suspended...

Nasscom report on the India's tech start-up ecosystem points out that both funding and investment are on a recovery path and start-up base is growing at 8-10% year-on-year

Experts expect that further rally in the market may need the economy to regain its mojo for which the Union Budget will prove to be a ideal platform

Reversing ten straight sessions of gains, Sensex fell 263 points to 48,174 and Nifty closed 53 points lower at 14,146

With this, the central government has released a total of Rs 60,000 crore so far to all States and UTs, which amounts to more than 50 per cent of their estimated GST compensation shortfall

Bitcoin declined as much as 17 per cent in intra-day to slip below $30,000 levels, the biggest slump since March, before recovering to $31,227, down 7 per cent

Robert Vadra is also being investigated by the economic intelligence agency in the same case in the purchase of a property worth 1.9 million pounds (over Rs 17.77 crore) located at 12, Bryanston Square, London

According to Finance Secretary Ajay Pandey, the officials were able to arrest tax evaders because of the data taken from agencies like Income Tax Department, Customs unit, FIU and GST department, and banks

The revenue department has already started sharing such information among its wings - direct tax, indirect tax and customs departments

A day after crossing $30,000, Bitcoin reached an all-time high of $34,544.94 on Sunday as the rally continued for the third day of 2021. It later gave up some gains to hover around $33,000

Bitcoin has seen an unprecedented rise this year, with its value witnessing a 240 per cent jump in 2020, giving investors better returns than other traditional mainstream investment platforms

GST collections in December 2020 showed an unexpected year-on-year growth of 11.6 per cent to Rs 1.15 lakh crore, the highest monthly GST collection so far

Bitcoin has seen an unprecedented rise this year, with its value witnessing a 240 per cent jump in 2020, giving investors better returns than other traditional mainstream investment platforms

The CEIB has conducted a study on levying GST on cryptocurrencies. It suggested finance ministry that bitcoin can be categorised under 'intangible assets' class and GST could be imposed on all transactions