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Cabinet Approves Policy Framework For Unconventional Hydrocarbons

The centre has approved the policy to permit exploration and exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbons such as Shale oil/gas, Coal Bed Methane...

02 Aug 2018 Indian Economy

Bill for Quick Resolution of Commercial Disputes Passed in Lok Sabha

Replacing an ordinance, a Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2018 has been passed by Lok Sabha to...

02 Aug 2018 Indian Economy

RBI Raises Interest Rates by 25 bps

The Reserve Bank of India in its third bi-monthly policy raised the repo rate by 0.25 per cent to 6.5 per cent because of inflationary...

02 Aug 2018 Indian Economy

Draft National E-commerce Policy

A task force headed by commerce secretary has submitted its recommendations on a draft national e-commerce policy.  India’s e-commerce...

01 Aug 2018 Indian Economy

BEE Introduces State Energy Efficiency Index

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has come up with the country’s first state energy efficiency preparedness index. The index assumes...

01 Aug 2018 Indian Economy

Centre Imposes 25% Safeguard Duty on Import of Solar Cells

The Centre has put a safeguard duty of 25% on import of solar cells from China and Malaysia from July 30, 2018. The safeguard duty on imports...

01 Aug 2018 Indian Economy

Study on District Mineral Foundations

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has released its report ‘People First: District Mineral Foundation (DMF) Status Report, 2018’ on...

01 Aug 2018 Indian Economy

Government Panel To Study Stressed Power Sector

The government has decided to set up a high-level empowered committee to resolve the stress in the thermal power sector. The Committee will be...

30 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

Gold Council to Aid Exports on the Anvil

The Government of India has decided to set up a Domestic Council for Gold to aid exports of jewellery and to create an ecosystem to harness the true...

30 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

Make Ethanol Directly From Sugarcane Juice

Recently, the government has notified a decision to allow sugar mills to manufacture ethanol directly from sugarcane juice or an intermediate product...

28 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

New Models for Airport Management

The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India Act, 2008, was enacted to provide an independent authority to protect the interests of airports,...

27 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

RBI Moves to Wind-up CDR System

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is considering shutting down the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) system, its very first loan recast mechanism,...

27 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

AIM & MyGov Launches ‘Innovate India Platform’

Atal Innovation Mission and MyGov have collaborated together with NITI Aayog to launch the ‘#InnovateIndia Platform’. The platform will...

27 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

Need to Ease Carbon Taxes: NITI Aayog

India is one of the most expensive places to produce coal-based electricity despite having a competitive advantage in coal. From a developing...

26 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

Invest India and Business France Sign MoU to Promote Investment

Invest India and Business France have signed an MoU to promote investment facilitation and cooperation between startups of India and France. It...

26 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

SEBI Proposes using UPI to Reduce Public Issue Timeline

Recently, markets regulator SEBI has proposed introducing Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as an alternative payment option for retail investors...

26 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

Aluminium as Ninth Core Industry

Recently a report by V.K Saraswat (NITI Aayog member) has recommended that the government should consider classifying the aluminium sector as...

25 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

Investment Deficiency in India and Its Implications

This article is based on the opinion piece published in Livemint by the name “Two engines of the economy need to fire”In a developing...

24 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2018

The government has introduced the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2018 in the Lok Sabha. The bill replaces the Ordinance...

24 Jul 2018 Indian Economy

Pact to Resolve Stressed Assets

Seventeen public sector banks, five private sector banks and two other financial institutions have signed the inter-creditor agreement...

24 Jul 2018 Indian Economy