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The Dollar Business Bureau  Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has been selected for the US-India Business Council’s (USIBC) ‘Transformative Chief Minister Award’ for his role in strengthening the partnership between India and the US at the state level. The award would be presented to the Chief Minister on May 8, 2017 during the Annual West Coast Summit of USIBC in the Menlo Park, California, according to a statement. The summit will see an assembly of 150 industry leaders from across sectors including information technology (IT), manufacturing, healthcare, food processing, clean energy, banking, digital payments and officials from the Government of India for exploring the effects of manufacturing in India, the country’s move towards digitisation and cashless society and the future of ...

PTI In an effort to end the miseries of potato growers in Uttar Pradesh, the state government today decided to purchase one lakh metric tonnes of potato from farmers at Rs 487 per quintal. "Government aims at giving adequate price to potato growers, if we cannot give them profit, we want to give them price of their produce," Cabinet minister Shrikant Sharma told reporters after a meeting of the state cabinet. There have been reports that the potato farmers in the state were unable to get a proper price for their produce because of the presence of intermediaries. Services of four agencies including a central and state agency will be availed of for purchase of potato, he said. ...

PTI The Cabinet today cleared changes in the GST Constitutional Amendment Bill, dropping 1 per cent manufacturing tax and providing guarantee to compensate states for any revenue loss in the first five years of rollout of the proposed indirect tax regime. The Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, decided to include in the Constitutional Amendment Bill that any dispute between states and the Centre will be adjudicated by the GST Council, which will have representation from both the Centre and states. With states on board and the Cabinet approving the amendments, the government is hopeful of passage of the long-pending Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill in the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament, which ends on August 12. The GST Bill, with the changes ...

Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the Cabinet Minister for Food Processing in the Government of India and Member of Parliament from Bathinda (Punjab) is a multi-faced personality. Politics, family and philanthropy are three diverse areas, but a modern woman should excel in all three. That's what she feels, and does. Indranil Das | March 2016 Issue | The Dollar Business Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Union Cabinet Minister, Food Processing, Government of India She is a member of Shiromani Akali Dal. Her husband Sukhbir Singh Badal is the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab and the President of Shiromani Akali Dal. Her father-in-law Parkash Singh Badal is the Chief Minister of Punjab. Belonging to a family with politics in its blood, the first obvious question to her ...