Earlier today the CBI raided the Videocon offices in Mumbai and Aurangabad, and the offices of Deepak's Nupower Renewables and Supreme Energy.

WEF 2019: Urbanisation to be big driver of Indian economic growth, says KantUrbanisation will be a big driver of economic growth in India going forward, supported by favourable macroeconomic factors, accelerated infrastructure building and continuing reforms, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said at an event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. He also said the Indian economy may even exceed the IMF growth forecast of 7.5 per cent for the country.Pension fund regul...

\"The best minister in the government should be given the responsibility of the human resource development ministry,\" said former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan.

Finance Ministry is actively mulling a proposal to double the minimum pension under EPS-95 from the level of Rs 1,000 per month, benefitting 40 lakh pensioners.

A major setback for the developers is that the end-users search for finished inventory as they don't want their investment to get stuck, resulting in the slow velocity of sales.

Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar said that the PFRDA is also thinking of buckets of investments in which higher returns can be generated.

Calling for less politicisation of the public sector, Rajan says the \"banking reforms were hijacked by bureaucracy\", and that they are now a \"missed opportunity\".

Arun Jaitley, who is in the US for medical reasosn, will be designated as Minister without portfolioduring the period of his indisposition or till the time he is able to resume his duites.

The wishlist of the common man as well as industry bodies includes doubling the income tax exemption threshold for the salaried, revising the Section 80C deduction limit and tinkering with tax slabs.