MPs salary annually raised by 3.1% via transparent method linked to inflationSalaries and allowances for MPs have seen an average annual increase of 3.1% after being linked to inflation, resulting in a 24% rise over ...
25 Mar, 2025, 05.34 PM IST
How new Income Tax Bill 2025 rewrites a new era of taxation from April 1, 2026New Income Tax Bill: Different indirect taxes were subsumed in the Goods and Services Tax, which took effect on July 1, 2017. The new Incom...
13 Feb, 2025, 02.40 PM IST
Budget 2025: Quick guide on how to read and understand the BudgetUnion Budget 2025: The Indian government's Budget 2025, the first after Prime Minister Modi's re-election, will soon be unveiled. The budge...
10 Dec, 2024, 04.53 PM IST
Path-dependence and lessons from the UK pensions fiascoThis is where it starts getting awry. The globally coordinated interest rate increase cycle was already pushing 30-year swaps higher, there...
03 Oct, 2022, 07.17 PM IST
Andhra Pradesh government urges Centre to clear Rs 9,164 crore dues immediatelyThe dues are Rs 3,232.41 crore towards reimbursement of Polavaram irrigation project expenditure, GST compensation of Rs 3,622.07 crore, ri...
15 Sep, 2020, 02.36 PM IST
Parliament norms on social distancing gives government floor advantageThe social distancing norms and the scattered seating arrangements would clearly hamper the Opposition aggression in this session, thus giv...
14 Sep, 2020, 12.15 AM IST
View: We will never get this opportunity for reforms againIndia has so far had the most inflexible labour market regulations, which hindered large scale investments, productivity and enhancement, t...
12 May, 2020, 10.46 AM IST
View: Opportunity in the time of crisisAt some point, this Covid threat will pass and immediately after will be the time for the government to dust off its Rs 102 lac crore Natio...
12 Apr, 2020, 01.36 PM IST
Shashi Tharoor writes to PM, seeks rollback of govt's decision to suspend MPLAD fundsIn a letter to the prime minister, Tharoor commended the government for its decision to revise the salaries of Members of Parliament and of...
06 Apr, 2020, 10.44 PM IST
Need to ponder over voters' role post elections: Varun GandhiBJP MP, commenting upon the right to recall, Gandhi wondered whether the people should remain just spectators after an election or bring in...
27 Jul, 2018, 08.21 PM IST
Decoding Mr Arun Jaitley’s poll-bound Budget 2018Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addressed India’s farmers directly when he pegged the minimum support price at 1.5 times the cost of inputs.
02 Feb, 2018, 08.58 AM IST
Union Budget 2018: Key HighlightsGovernment allots Rs 9,975 crore for social security schemes.
01 Feb, 2018, 03.27 PM IST
Independent mechanism needed to fix salaries of MPs: Yogendra YadavIt was surprising that MPs themselves were moving a proposal to increase their salaries and perks, he said, adding, it was even more shocki...
04 Jul, 2015, 09.08 PM IST
May hear plea after ordinance on convicted lawmaker passed: Supreme CourtThe court said that it cannot hear the plea when the ordinance in question was in the process of being promulgated.
27 Sep, 2013, 04.02 PM IST
- Young managers from top firms barter fat pay checks to join political system
There has been a definite paradigm shift over the years with professionals considering participation in the political system as a serious c...
23 May, 2012, 06.34 AM IST
- MPs set to get an extra 10,000 pay hike today
This will on average mean a package of Rs 1.6 lakh a month for legislators by way of pay and allowances.
23 Aug, 2010, 06.43 AM IST
- MPs Salary set to be raised to Rs 80K per month
Govt is ready to give green signal to a substantial revision of MP salaries.
07 May, 2010, 09.42 AM IST