Meet Bharthana, the little-known Gujarat village that has India's top toll plaza with ₹400 crore annual collectionBharthana village in Gujarat's NH-48 Vadodara-Bharuch toll plaza generates the highest revenue in India, with ?400 crore annually. Toll col...
24 Mar, 2025, 02.29 PM IST
A budget for the custo-marred: Will Sitharaman give middle-class consumers some respite from price pain?Budget 2025: As the middle class grapples with inflation, tax burdens, and rising costs of necessities, a significant portion believe not e...
31 Jan, 2025, 09.08 AM IST
Toll mopup may top Rs 70,000 cr in 2024India's toll collection in 2024 may exceed ₹70,000 crore as daily collections grow due to new toll plazas and increased economic activity. ...
27 Dec, 2024, 12.51 AM IST
Q3 GDP numbers due today: Here's what experts sayEconomists predict moderation in the growth momentum for the October-December quarter due to weak demand amid aggressive rate hikes by the ...
28 Feb, 2023, 02.31 PM IST
Cyclicals lead the way in India earnings beatWith results now in for the vast majority of companies in the S&P BSE 200 Index, energy, technology and materials firms have led the way in...
01 Sep, 2020, 02.17 PM IST
View: Where India can find a cool $1 trillionFrom consumption and private investment to exports, no cylinders are firing.
04 Jul, 2019, 12.04 PM IST
NHAI construction index to help revise toll rates: Chairman Raghav ChandraDelhi-Meerut Expressway likely to be completed by mid-2018, said Raghav Chandra.
21 Nov, 2016, 01.15 AM IST
CAG takes National Highways Authority of India to task for financial mismanagementIt said Reliance Infra, in the case of the Delhi-Agra project, for instance, made a false declaration of mobilising and commencing construc...
24 Dec, 2014, 03.45 AM IST
Despite government talk, growth estimates brew a stormTo begin with CSO estimates show foodgrain production is expected to decline by 2.8% as compared to a 5.2% growth last agricultural year.
17 Feb, 2013, 11.14 AM IST
Slow traffic growth hits highway developers hardTop officials at the National Highways Authority of India are concerned about these income shocks impairing developers’ ability to bid for ...
15 Feb, 2013, 05.00 AM IST
- Booze is the secret of Kerala’s fiscal energy
In Kerala, sales tax collections from petrol, diesel, ATF and kerosene has been eclipsed by tax revenues from brandy, whisky, wine, gin, ru...
19 Aug, 2010, 07.27 PM IST
- Eurozone unemployment hits 10 percent
Unemployment in the 16 countries that use the euro reached 10 percent in November for the first time since the currency was adopted in 1999.
08 Jan, 2010, 05.32 PM IST
- Direct tax collection signals recovery
The total direct tax collected from all over India in the April-to-September period has matched last year’s growth in collections, indicati...
09 Sep, 2009, 02.28 AM IST
- Q4 results of cos indicate economic recovery
The March quarter saw 26 companies in Nifty Index beat slowdown with 2% year-on-year rise in sales.
11 May, 2009, 02.38 AM IST
- Forex reserves dip $5 bn as RBI sells dollars
India’s forex reserves continue to be under pressure, with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) selling dollars to meet buyers’ demand and inter...
22 Nov, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- 'Internal trade to cross $1,100 bn'
India's internal trade is expected to cross $1,100 billion mark by 2010, says an an estimate by industry body PHD Chamber of Commerce and I...
19 Aug, 2007, 01.44 PM IST
- Scared city shuns locals for BEST
Call it collateral damage. The seven blasts in suburban local trains last month not only took 200 lives, they also seem to have driven a si...
10 Aug, 2006, 12.45 AM IST