After a two-day discussion, Uttarakhand Assembly has passed the Uniform Civil Code, Uttarakhand Bill, 2024. It will subsume personal laws of all the religions. Marriage, divorce, inheritance of property, etc. will come under one common umbrella. So what w

The rate setting panel of the Reserve Bank of India has kept lending rate unchanged at 6.5 percent, signalling that its battle against inflation is not over yet. This was the sixth consecutive time that the central bank has left the repo rate unchanged. T

The Karnataka government has announced fixed fares for taxis. Now both app-based and non-app based cab aggregators will have to follow a uniform rate chart. One of the triggers of this move was overcharging. But has the state government gone too far by se

Byju Raveendran has been in a fire fighting mode for a while now. Even as he was planning to raise funds for his struggling ed-tech start-up Byjus by slashing its valuation to less than two billion dollars, a group of shareholders are now demanding his o

Come March, and most Paytm soundboxes might fall silent. It is a void which will be difficult to fill. But the RBI has given a decent window, and merchants are slowly porting their accounts to rivals like Phonepay and Google Pay. While Paytm is trying har

Over eight months after Go First grounded its entire fleet and filed for bankruptcy, a fresh development has given some hope to its anxious lenders. They are reportedly seeking an extension of the insolvency process by another 60 days after three potentia

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman almost stuck to her promise of keeping the interim Budget free of any spectacular announcement. But, at the same time, she tried to strike a fine balance between welfare and fiscal prudence. The budget speech was pepp

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will equal the feat of former Prime Minister Morarji Desai today when she rises to present her sixth consecutive budget in the Parliament. But will she stick to the old tradition of keeping the interim budget free of pr

The Union Finance Ministry on Monday exuded confidence in a report that the Indian economy will expand at 7% or more in FY25, and that the country will become the third largest economy in the next three years. This economic review report has set the tone

It was just over a year ago, on the morning of 24th of January, 2023, when Indian stock markets woke up to a US short sellers report -- which accused mighty Adani Group of stock manipulation and accounting fraud. While the benchmark indices soon recovere