The way forward clearly is to broad-base and modernise taxation in general, and include petro-fuels and power in the goods and services tax...

So long as growth triggered by government borrowing is higher than the interest rate, things are just fine.

GST revenues for June, collected in July, stood at ₹1,16,393 crore, 25% higher than the preceding month. The rise came both from domestic t...

Taxes on petrol and diesel add up to two-thirds of retail prices, at an all-time high now and a threat to economic recovery. Note that taxe...

Revenues from GST have stayed over Rs 1 lakh crore for eight consecutive months of dented growth during the pandemic.

Inflation is being fuelled by hardening crude prices, magnified in retail prices of petro-fuels by cascading fuel taxes, besides supply bot...

Focus on the government's Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation ( SATAT) scheme that aims to boost availability of more...

At a time when the government’s focus has been on providing relief to those who eke out a living, in normal times, in the neighbourhood of ...

The objection has no merit. The real solution to cost-padding in petrofuels is independent marketing, so that genuine competition brings do...

The price arbitrage for guzzling subsidised diesel would almost certainly lead to a host of directly-unproductive profit-seeking activitie.

Judicial expansion and reform, reform of education, decontrol of petro-fuels, complete overhaul of political funding, prior zoning for urba...

It is all very well for the Prime Minister to say that he will cut red tape but he must act, rather than talk or set up committees.

The country’s industrial output growth virtually halted in April due to a steep fall in capital goods production.

Considering how much global crude prices have moved up since the last time retail prices were changed on December 1, there is no doubt that...

Opposition parties disrupted normal life in many parts on Monday.

The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is fundamental. Assertion of formal rights by a mobilised populace is, indeed, the ...

The Reserve Bank of India has accelerated its planned exit from the crisis-induced extra accommodation of credit demand by raising both the...