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The 2013 ghost returns: Will higher gold duties actually restrict imports or just fuel the grey market?India’s shock hike in gold and silver import duty to 15% has revived memories of the 2013 crisis. While the move aims to curb dollar outflo...
IRS dirty dozen 2026: Internal Revenue Service warns of top tax scams, AI fraud calls, and refund traps to avoid this filing seasonThe Internal Revenue Service has shared its 2026 Dirty Dozen tax scams list to warn people about online fraud, fake messages, AI phone call...
1 in 4 Americans hit by tax scams as AI deepfakes rise — 5 traps to avoid nowTax scams are rising in 2025 as fraudsters use AI and fake messages to trick people. Many Americans are losing money during tax season due ...
Build new cities: Ensure state-level detailed planning and zoning, realistic project reports and costingIndia needs to expand its urban space to fuel economic growth, with the government now supporting new town development. While organic growt...
ET Prime Special Series - Part 4: What to look for in an annual report to find whether management is taking you for a rideConsider: A company revalued land, including portions that were ineligible for revaluation because they were leasehold, neither owned by th...
Forking madness of fine dining etiquetteYou know you're desperate when you go bonkers with table manners
'Never seen anything like it' - what Trump's favorite phrase says about his presidencyPresident Trump frequently employs hyperbole, claiming unprecedented success and crises, reflecting his black-and-white worldview. He uses ...
India was ready to get a new hill station near Mumbai. But, it is now a ghost townLavasa, India's first planned private hill city near Pune, was envisioned as a European-style utopia with open promenades, waterfronts, and...
Edtech consolidation; GenAI chatbot hallucinationsEdtech firm Schoolnet has acquired learning app Genius Teacher for an undisclosed sum. This and more on today’s ETtech Top 5.
View: Virtual quality control's ours to techAnd for good reasons. As of June 2021, the FDA had a backlog of over 2,500 foreign inspections, including nearly 500 and 400 in India and C...
Elevation raises $670M India fund; edtech giant lays off 1,000 employeesElevation Capital, which invested in around 30 Indian startups last year alone, has closed its latest India-dedicated fund at $670 million.
Cairn accepts $1 billion refund offer, to drop cases against India within days, says CEOThe offer to return money seized to enforce retrospective tax demand in lieu of dropping all litigations against the government "is accepta...
Can Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince fix his mistakes?An ill-timed oil war & the Covid crisis will force the crown prince to deeply alter his “Vision 2030” plan.
Non-starters for restaurants: Bar on pubs, dine-in timing curbsRestaurants and cafes say reopening will not be easy despite the home ministry’s revised guidelines.
Unseating BJP is prime goal, who will be the PM is immaterial: P Chidambaram“I am confident that post poll, SP, BSP, TMC and other parties will realise that in order to form a non-BJP government, all of us have to c...
Name one Swiss Bank account holder who had heart attack: Arvind Kejriwal, Chief, AAPThe implementation is all botched up - all of India and world is admitting it. So you roll it back and bring it after two months.
‘PwC is no.1 in trust among the big four, even after the Satyam fiasco’"Satyam was a big blow when it happened to us eight years back. What’s far more important is what we did within those eight years to win ba...
Much unrealised potential in Indo-US commercial tiesAn Industry and government interface was organised by The Economic Times in collaboration with the American Chamber of Commerce.
Outgoing SBI chairman Pratip Chaudhuri leaves poor investors, rich legacyMost chairmen carry on the older tradition and leave an equally dirty balance sheet for the successor to clean up. But not Chaudhuri.
Financial turmoil and its tax implicationsWhat has been described as oncein-a-generation global crisis is likely to leave its mark across sectors, though more prominently on the ban...