Absolute poverty has dived nearly 90 per cent since 1820, which is even more remarkable when you factor in a 7-fold jump in global population in the same time frame.

From human development indicators like health and education to economic parameters like tax-to-GDP ratio, currency performance, and current account deficit, Pakistan's track record is dismal on all fronts.

Ayushman Bharat can do to healthcare what GST is expected to do to India's indirect tax regime. But there are challenges, too.

A critical insight into why we assume things will get worse even though data says otherwise.

According to Jaitley, the 7.7 per cent economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2017-18 'firmly' established India as the fastest growing major economy in the world and the trend is \"likely to continue for the next few years\".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a great orator. He also makes grand announcements about ambitious targets, leaving hapless officials and others to work out the details.

Payment should be based on value, not activities.

The conviction in the blackbuck poaching case may dent his image as a philanthropist, but only in the short-term

We suggest tweaks in your financial plan to maximise savings.

Dharam Vira Gandhi, a parliamentarian from Punjab and a qualified medical practitioner, has sought urgent intervention of the Prime Minister to ensure affordable healthcare to all citizens.

Ensuring electricity access to all households is a great political move but might derail the fiscal reforms undertaken by Discoms.

The case was heard by a nine-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar. The bench is examining current case in context of two previous judgments of 1954 and other in 1962 which had held that right to privacy was not a fundamental right.

The government had in March this year mandated that anyone not having Aadhaar but desirous of availing free LPG connection under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana must apply for it by May 31.

For instance, Emcure Pharmaceuticals was offering its drug Temcure 250 mg to an Amritsar-based cancer hospital at just Rs 1,950 while  patients have to pay about nine times more at  Rs 18,647.

Justifying the GST Council's decision to go for multiple tax rates under the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the multiple tax rates were to ensure that there would be no inflationary effect due to its implementation.

Concerted efforts to address declining crop productivity and water scarcity are crucial for sustainability of Indian agriculture.

Policymakers have always thought of temporary relief to farmers ignoring the chronic nature of the ailment.