The government plans to levy a “green cess” of ₹800-1000 on conventional two-wheelers to subsidise the prices of electric bikes, Economic Times reports. “Today, the price differential between a petrol and an electric two-wheeler stands at ₹55,000-60,000. The idea is to reduce this gap as much as possible by levying a small cess on vehicles which are polluting,” the publication quotes a senior unidentified official as saying. India is the world’s largest two-wheeler market, with sales exceeding 2 crore units a year. The country plans to have 30% electric vehicles by 2030

This year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) will be held in India from March 23. The decision was taken here on Tuesday following a meeting of the Committee of Administrators with authorities concerned. The BCCI confirmed that the IPL will be staged in India despite the general elections.

Advance the dates

The two-member CoA — Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji — met government officials here and decided to advance the IPL dates on account of the ICC World Cup to be held in England from May 30.

The new BCCI constitution mandates a 15-day gap between the end of IPL and India’s international assignments. In the past, IPL was twice staged out of India. The 2009 edition was played entirely in South Africa, while in 2014 some matches were held in the UAE.

According to the BCCI, the IPL schedule will be finalised once the dates for the elections are announced.

“Based on the preliminary discussions with the appropriate central and state agencies / authorities, it was decided that the 12th edition of the world’s most popular and competitive T20 tournament will be played in India,” said the BCCI statement.

“It is proposed that the IPL 2019 will commence on March 23, 2019.

“The detailed schedule will be finalised in consultation with the appropriate authorities. The CoA will have detailed discussion with all stakeholders before releasing the IPL 2019 schedule,” it said.

In India 2000_ ₹ note was introduced in 8 November 2016 ,after demoneystration in India, soon decision was taken by the government of ban 500 &1000 ₹ note from serculation, and the RBI come out with a 2000 ₹ note with a new look . Now government of India planing to reduce Printing of 2000₹ note at a minimum level . A top finance ministry office said on last day .

The senior official said the RBI and the government from time to time decides on the quantum of currency to be printed on the basis of money in circulation.

When the ₹2,000 note was launched, it was decided that the printing would be “scaled down” going forward, since the new high currency value note was meant for meeting the remonetisation need.

“The printing of 2,000 rupee notes has been substantially reduced. It has been decided to limit the printing of 2,000 currency notes to minimum. This is nothing new,” the official said.

According to the RBI data, there were 3,285 million pieces of ₹2,000 notes in circulation at March-end, 2017. A year after (on March 31, 2018), there was only a marginal increase in the number at 3,363 million pieces.

Of the total currency in circulation amounting to ₹18,037 billion at end-March 2018, ₹2,000 notes accounted for 37.3%, down from 50.2% at end-March 2017.

India will continue to be the fastest-growing major economy, with robust GDP growth expected to continue through 2019, the Confederation of Indian Industry said, based on strong drivers from the services sector, infrastructure activity and better demand conditions.

“Better demand conditions, settled GST implementation, capacity expansion resulting from growing investments in infrastructure and continuing positive effects of the reform policies undertaken and improved credit offtake especially in services sector at 24% will sustain the robust GDP growth in the range of 7.5% in 2019,” Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General of CII, said in a statement.CII( Confederation of Indian Industry) has identified seven key drivers of growth that need to be encouraged in 2019, including lowering the number of GST rate slabs, bolstering the insolvency and bankruptcy framework, simplifying business procedures, and improving agricultural productivity, among others.

A report published by CII.

At present time approx total control over the market is in the hand of e-commerce whether it is domestic multinational companies or in hand of non domestic multinational companies and business of small domestic retailers business are in the denger because they can’t able to competition with e-commerce .

Market share of retaile busssines in india

India’s retail market is expected to increase by 60 per cent to reach US$ 1.1 trillion by 2020, on the back of factors like rising incomes and lifestyle changes by middle class and increased digital connectivity. While the overall retail market is expected to grow at 12 per cent per annum, modern trade would expand twice as fast at 20 per cent per annum and traditional trade at 10 per cent# . In FY17, organised retail market contributed 7 per cent of the total sector and unorganised retail market contributed the rest 93 per cent of the sector.

Online retail is expected to be at par with the physical stores in the next five years and has grown 23 per cent to $17.8 billion in 2017.

India is expected to become the world’s fastest growing e-commerce market, driven by robust investment in the sector and rapid increase in the number of internet users. Various agencies have high expectations about growth of Indian e-commerce markets. Indian e-commerce sales are expected to reach US$ 200 billion! by 2026 from US$ 39 billion in 2017

The size of modern retail in India is expected to reach US$ 11.25 billion in 2019 from US$ 13.51 billion in 2016.

After trade war with u.s. ,India become the big market for Chinese product’s. China has started looking at India as a major market to sell its products and machinery. However, Indian companies want China to share its technology and even partner with them in its growth story rather than treating India purely as a market of its products.
“More Chinese manufacturing companies coming to India. From a competitive background, the situation is changing. Both the leaderships of India and China are determined to bring the two countries closer.”

More than 150 company’s show there manufactur product in last month in a exhibition in Mumbai , this was one of the biggest exhibition of Chinese product’s in India. more and more Chinese Multinational companies started investment on large amount in India, and these companies treated India as a big market for their products ….
India and China’s bilateral trade is approximately $85 billion out of which India’s exports are about $13 billion.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon introduce a new ₹ 20 currency note with additional features, according to a document of the central bank.

The central bank has already issued new-look currency notes in the denominations of ₹ 10, ₹ 50, ₹ 100, and ₹ 500, besides introducing ₹ 200 and ₹ 2,000 bank notes.

The new look notes are being introduced since November 2016 under Mahatma Gandhi (New) series. These are different in size and design compared to the notes issued previously.

The currency notes, except for banned ₹ 500 and ₹ 1,000, issued under old series continue to remain legal tender.

According to the RBI data bank, there were 4.92 billion pieces of ₹ 20 note in circulation as on March 31, 2016. The number more than doubled to about 10 billion pieces by March 2018.

The ₹ 20 notes accounted for 9.8 per cent of the total number of currency notes in circulation at the end of March 2018.

About 97.5% of the goods are already in the 18% or lower Goods and Services Tax (GST) bracket, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley wrote in a blog post on December 24, adding that even though the GST revenue targets set were a very stiff one, several States were already achieving it and more.

Mr. Jaitley also wrote that in the future, once revenue collections increased sufficiently, the country could possibly move to a GST system with only one standard rate, instead of the two standard rates of 12% and 18% currently.

“Of the 1,216 commodities which are used, broadly 183 are taxed at zero rate, 308 at 5%, 178 at 12% and 517 at 18%,” Mr. Jaitley wrote. “The 28% slab is now a dying slab.”

Modi’s recent comments

This statistic assumes significance against the background of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent comment that the government would bring 99% of the items into the 18% or lower bracket.

“A frequently made comment has been that the revenue position has been disappointing,” Mr. Jaitley said. “The comment is based on an inadequate understanding of both the targets and the revenue increase. The targets set for the States in the GST regime is unprecedently high. Even though GST commenced on July 1, 2017, the base year for revenue increase has been calculated is 2015-16.”

He said, “For each year a 14% increase is guaranteed. Thus, even when 18 months have not been finished since the launch of GST, on this day every state has a target of improving its revenue with three 14% increases compounded annually over the base year of 2015-16. This is close to a 50% being reached in the second year itself. It is almost an unachievable target.”

Yet, Mr. Jaitley said, six States had achieved it, and another seven were within the striking distance of achieving it. By the third, fourth and fifth year, the ability to increase revenues and close the gap would substantially increase.

“This increase in the tax collection has to be factored keeping in mind the significant rate reduction which has taken place in the GST. The reduction in monetary terms amounts to about ₹80,000 crores per year. Notwithstanding the substantial tax reduction, the GST collection in the first six months of this year has shown a significant improvement as compared to the first year. The average monthly tax collected in the first year was ₹89,700 crore as compared to ₹97,100 crore a month in the second year,” he said.

The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a law against the commercial renting of wombs, with punishment of a jail term up to 10 years and a fine of ₹10 lakh for violators. Only “altruistic surrogacy” has been allowed, and only from a “close relative” of the couple. Foreigners, NRIs, same-sex and live-in couples and single parents will not be allowed to use the procedure. Well known instances of surrogate births include film director Karan Johar’s twins and actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son.

According to recerch in all over world there is 500 case of surrogate in which 300 are from India . In India total experience is less than abroad in India total experience is approx 10-15 lakh but in abroad it will 50 lakh .

The total busssines of surrogate in India is about 40 cr. And there is more than 3000 clinics in India for this process.

This is the really the matter of anxiety which need to be pay a proper attention on the condition of India even after the 70 year of impedance the situation of the farmer in the country of former is very poor ,farmer are not getting even a prper price for their products and proper market for selling the product, even they don’t have finance for farming and government are not really help them government only used former as a vote bank ,and not full fill their need .

Thousands of farmers marched through the streets of the capital, chanting slogans (Delhi Chlo) and flashing flags, to press their demands like debt relief and remunerative prices for their produce and were joined by social activists and leaders of non-BJP parties in a show of j near Parliament in New Delhi.

The farmers, who had gathered from various States and camped at the Ramlila ground overnight, started their march around 10.30 a.m. amid heavy policy deployment, only to be stopped at the Parliament major initiative for farmers in the past four and a half years.