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New Delhi: India for the fourth time deferred deadline to impose retaliatory customs duties on 29 US products, including almond, walnut and pulses, by another 45 days, the government has said. According

Mumbai: Indicating that further simplification of the Goods and Services Tax is on the anvil, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government wants to ensure that ’99 per cent things’ attract sub-18

New Delhi: Demonetisation slowed down India’s economic growth at a time when the world economy was growing and it impacted the GDP significantly, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan said. Rajan said he

New Delhi: The department of telecommunications (DoT) has set for itself an ambitious target of completing the procedure for auctioning 5G spectrum by August next year. Speaking on the sidelines of a

London: The increasing involvement of the Indian government in the affairs of the country`s central bank is a negative for the ratings of giant Asian economy`s banking system, S&P Global said. “S&P

New Delhi: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has increased constantly from USD 45.15 billion in 2014-15 to USD 60.97 billion in 2017-18, the Ministry of Commerce revealed. In a written reply in the

Mumbai:The Reserve Bank of India’s board bought more time to review the government’s demand for a greater say in the central bank’s functioning, one of the issues that had fostered hostilities between

Islamabad: Pakistan’s meagre foreign reserves were bolstered the second $1 billion tranche was received from Saudi Arabia, said the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The country’s foreign exchange reserves now stand at

New Delhi: India’s November trade deficit narrowed to $16.67 billion due to a fall in gold imports, the country’s trade ministry said in a statement. In October, the trade deficit was at

New Delhi: Finance minister Arun Jaitley underlined the need to maintain fiscal prudence and to avoid “transient populism” in campaign for the 2019 elections. His statement comes amid report by a news