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New Delhi: Inflation based on wholesale prices shot up to a 14-month high of 4.43 per cent in May on increasing prices of petrol and diesel as well as vegetables. The Wholesale…

Mumbai: India has only one decade to change its status into a developed country and will need to focus on education, failing which the much-hailed ‘demographic dividend’ will turn into a disadvantage,…

New Delhi :While the problem of banks handing out torn and mutilated currency to depositors has hogged the limelight off late, the bank customers’ woes may be far from over. Many banks…

Washington: The Federal Reserve raised interest rates , a move that was widely expected but still marked a milestone in the US central bank’s shift from policies used to battle the 2007-2009…

New Delhi: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has proposed amendments in two forms and one rule under to Income Tax Rules, 1962 (IT Rules). It has suggested changes in Form…

Washington:India and the US have agreed to hold official-level comprehensive talks to address trade and economic issues, days after President Donald Trump accused New Delhi of charging 100% on some of the…

Quebec City: American President Donald Trump hit out at India for levying tariffs on US goods, while pushing his ‘America first’ motto. Trump said the US will do whatever is necessary to…

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the Narendra Modi government for not bringing petrol and diesel under GST. “If you bring petrol and diesel under GST, prices will come…

London: Absconding diamantaire Nirav Modi who is at the centre of a money laundering case linked to over USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank fraud has fled to the UK where he…

Washington:The IMF welcomed as an appropriate step the decision of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to increase the repo rate by 25 basis point to 6.25% amid rising inflation and additional…