Hyderabad: Users who are filing their Income Tax Returns are facing technical glitches. Many complained of the portal turning sluggish. They also complained of receiving OTPs late or not receiving at all. The OTP generated is valid for ten minutes only and as a result of receiving them late, the users could apply that to […]
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal has written a letter to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, seeking urgent intervention by her in the backdrop of the grave financial crisis that the state government is facing currently. “The financial health of the state has been seriously affected by a reduction in the revenue deficit grant to […]
Hyderabad: Despite the constant hurdles created by the Central government, Telangana continues to maintain fiscal prudence with its total outstanding liabilities much lower than several BJP-ruled States, busting the ‘double engine’ growth propaganda pushed by the saffron party. Countering the opposition parties’ allegations of increasing debts, the State government has all along been arguing that […]
Hyderabad: Industries Minister KT Rama Rao demanded the Central government to withdraw its plans to sell assets, including land allotted to different Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) in Telangana. Instead, he suggested the union government to explore possibilities of reviving and strengthening the PSUs. “If it is not feasible then the State government should be given […]
New Delhi: Bowing to public pressure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced a Rs 8 per litre cut in excise duty on petrol and Rs 6 a litre on diesel to avoid increase in fuel prices that were necessitated due to surge in international oil prices. 7/12 We are reducing the Central excise duty […]
Hyderabad: Elections to 52 Rajya Sabha seats including two seats in Telangana will be held on June 10. The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday announced the poll schedule for the 57 seats of the Council of States in 15 States, whose terms expire between June and August this year. While the notification will […]
Washington: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attended a roundtable with business leaders and investors co-hosted by the US-India Business Council (USIBC) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in the Silicon Valley, and invited the leading investors to become a part of India’s growth story. Senior executives, business leaders of private sectors, venture capitalists, the institutional […]
The biggest risks of the unregulated cryptocurrency market are money laundering and terror financing. It is for this reason that India has made a strong case for regulating cryptocurrencies at a global level. Since the regulation cannot be done by a single country within its terrain, it has to be a global initiative to figure […]
Hyderabad: Industries Minister and TRS working president KT Rama Rao said on Monday that fuel prices can be slashed by at least 30 per cent if the Central Government does away with cesses. Taking a dig at Central government for revising fuel prices 12 times in the last fortnight, the Minister tweeted: “Read about Chinese […]
Hyderabad: The disinvestment drive undertaken by the BJP government at the Centre has netted an incredible amount of Rs 3,78,383 crore so far, if the statistics released by the Centre are any indication. Ever since the BJP took over the reins of the Central government in 2014, close to 155 disinvestment /fund transfers took place. […]