Recent Views 33 NEW DELHI: The GST Council should speed up refunds and address issues around accumulation of input tax credit, including for services and capital goods, while also allowing companies to take credit for expenses related to travel and insurance, EY India chairman & CEO Rajiv Memani said ahead of Wednesday’s meeting.Several of these…
Recent Views 26 MUMBAI: Advance growth continued to outstrip deposit growth at several banks in the second quarter of FY27, with loan books expanding at a double-digit pace across public sector and mid-sized private lenders despite efforts to accelerate deposit mobilisation.Provisional business updates for Q2FY27 show advances growing between 13% and 29% year-on-year across the…
Recent Views 21 I hope SC steps in and rectifies these things, Justice Nariman said NEW DELHI: Ahead of a Supreme Court hearing Monday on the SIR controversy and a plea seeking suspension of the CEC for his “unilateral decisions”, former SC judge Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman Sunday flagged “malfunctioning” of the poll panel and…
Recent Views 26 MUMBAI: The era of falling interest rates that began in February 2025 is likely to end this week, with bankers and economists expecting RBI to raise the repo rate by 25 basis points. The last increase came in February 2023, ending a tightening cycle that began after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.In February…
Recent Views 25 File photo: Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina DHAKA: Bangladesh on Sunday hoped India would act on its request for former PM Sheikh Hasina’s extradition and expedite the process, saying that “while legal process is certainly a factor, political will is also essential”.The remarks came a day after Indian high commissioner to Dhaka…
Recent Views 23 File photo: Shaktikanta Das NEW DELHI: The Indian economy is within striking distance of 8% growth, on the back of GST and banking reforms, flexible inflation targeting, digital payments and fiscal prudence, a top PMO official said Sunday.“Many of the reforms undertaken over the past decade were not designed as one-off measures,…
Recent Views 22 Hamam al-Hammami, the accused co-pilot in the flydubai incident (Image source: LinkedIn) The Omani co-pilot who attacked the captain of a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv may have tried to crash the aircraft in the Saudi desert after realising that passengers were about to thwart his attempt to seize control of…
Recent Views 24 Marvel Studios’ ‘Avengers: Endgame’ has officially reclaimed the title of the highest-grossing film of all time! The film on Sunday, following its theatrical re-release as ‘Avengers: Endgame Encore’, surpassed James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’, thus officially reclaiming the box office crown. ‘Avengers: Endgame’ becomes highest-grossing film of all time As per box office reports,…
Recent Views 24 File photo: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Picture credit: PTI) India’s ambition to become a Viksit Bharat requires an economy in which enterprises of every size can grow, wherever they begin. Over the past 12 years, our govt has worked to create those conditions. GST’s introduction in 2017 established a common national…
Recent Views 22 A $3 purchase at a South Carolina Goodwill store turned into one of the most remarkable thrift-store art discoveries in recent memory. The buyer, a former antiques dealer identified only by his middle name, Leroy, spotted an oil painting in an antique frame and assumed it might be worth a few hundred…
