Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Follow up demonetisation by bringing land and real estate into the GST, suggests the survey

It will amend Drugs & Cosmetics Rules to ensure availability of low-cost drugs & promote generics

It proposes zero customs and excise duties on certain items related to cashless transaction devices

For passenger safety, a fund to be created with a corpus of Rs 1 lakh cr over a period of 5 years

Assistance of up to Rs 75 lakhs to be provided to every e-NAM (National Agricultural Market)

Harmonisation of rules for medical devices will have a positive impact for healthcare sector

Focus on infrastructure is bound to channel lot of growth opportunities for downstream industries

The fact that impact of demonetisation will not spill over to the next year augur well for industry

Some steps to cover recycling cost of end-of-life product would have helped e-waste recycling sector

Move to reduce corporate tax for MSME will boost exports & manufacturing at large

However, there are no significant steps for enabling access of feedstock to petrochemicals industry

While agriculture got allocations of Rs 13,741 cr, fisheries & aquaculture received only Rs 401 cr

However, there are no remarkable announcements that the logistics sector can bank on

Budget's proposal to frame new rules for regulating medical devices is reassuring, says Viral Gandhi

Steps to encourage implementation of technology & its tools in Indian agriculture are positive

Investment in electronics sector will trigger an inspection & assembly related market for robots

Abolition of FIPB to ease flow of FDI is a good move which will speed up the process

It lays out some ambitious targets, but falls short on long term vision, says Dr Dharminder Nagar

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Jaitendra Kumar Tripathi
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Ambassador*
Ms. Chitra Narayanan
Ambassador** (Designate)
Rajesh N.Prasad
Deputy Chief of Mission
Dr. T.V. Nagendra Prasad

Embassy of India, Stockholm
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Ambassador*
Banashri Bose Harrison
Counsellor
Oscar Kerketta

Embassy of India, Oslo
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Ambassador
R.K. Tyagi
Head of Chancery
P. Balachandran

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High Commissioner*
Dr. A.M. Gondane
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C.K.Damodaran

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Ambassador
Satish C. Mehta
Deputy Chief of Mission
Vidhu P. Nair

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Botswana.

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High Commissioner
Madhava Chandra
High Commissioner-Designate
Rajeev Shahare
Second Secretary & HOC
R. K. Kapoor

CPI(M) leader V S Achuthanandan also asserted that his coalition was set to win the Kerala assembly election

The BJP could get zero to three seats while one to four seats may go to others

The process was peaceful, while there were a few incidence reported

Exits polls have predicted an edge for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam, while an outright win for incumbent Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal

The Chandy government had faced the elections under a cloud of charges from bar bribery case to solar scam

The Left Democratic Front led by the CPI (M) is set to win 91 of the 140 seats in the state assembly

Even in Kerala, where the Left Democratic Front (LDF) is heading for a majority, what is shocking is the erosion in vote share of the CPI (M)

Chandy handed over his resignation to Kerala Governor P Sathasivam

30 injured people have been hospitalised

Discussions have also begun on finalising ministers in the party, said Vijayan

Achuthanandan's remarks come a day after the party unanimously nominated Pinarayi Vijayan over him for the chief minister's post

Hideaways are hardly new to British homes. Sutton Place, the grand Surrey home of oil magnate John Paul Getty, featured secret passageways disguised as wooden panelling.

Buy into a housing development with shared gardens and you never again have to face the horror of a jungle to be cleared when you return from holiday, says Fred Redwood.

A leading buy-to-let expert has given his views on how to improve the rental market.

MailOnline Property takes an exclusive look inside the new £7.5million property on Surrey's desirable Wentworth Estate.

According to Strutt & Parker's latest Waterside Survey 43 per cent of participants believed that people living near water are happier than those who don't.

It's been described as 'among the finest and most prestigious country estates in the Channel Islands' and this £17.5million house ticks plenty of status symbol boxes.

Commuting to work is a costly drag, but millions of us have to do it every day. The solution? Join the increasingly popular weekday tenant club.

The lure of the green is something golf lovers know only too well: top of househunters' wishlists are a private gate that leads directly to a green and clear views of a famous hole.

The new homeowners will be able to enjoy one of the best views of the London fireworks held annually on New Year's Eve.