Milan: India accords a high priority to the free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU), and a deal is achievable by the year-end given the shared urgency, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday. Speaking at a conference on ‘cross border collaboration for future resilience’ on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank’s…
New Delhi: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will lead the Indian delegation to the annual meeting of the board of governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), being held in Milan, Italy, from 4 May to 7 May, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday. During her visit, Sitharaman will hold bilateral meetings with her…
The bill is culmination of amendments incorporated in successive budgets since the idea of a Direct Tax Code 2010 was floated in 2009. It aims to maintain relative stability in the well understood provisions of existing income-tax law while simplifying it after a comprehensive review making it “concise, lucid, easy to read and understand”. The…
