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New Delhi :Filing of income tax returns surged 75.98 per cent in the current assessment year, with as many as 52.97 million people filing returns till about five hours before the deadline.

Mumbai: The rupee slumped to a fresh record low of 71 against the dollar for the first time ever by falling 26 paise on persistent demand for the US currency amid rising

New Delhi:Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes led to formalisation of economy, more tax collection and higher growth. His statement comes a day after

New Delhi: The merger of Idea Cellular and Vodafone India has been completed, creating India’s biggest telecom service provider with over 408 million subscribers, the two companies said today. A new board

New Delhi: NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said that the objective of demonetisation was to help reduce cash transactions. His statement comes a day after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) report

New Delhi: The government may go ahead with plans of merging weak banks with large ones if 11 public sector lenders don’t come out of prompt corrective action (PCA) framework or RBI’s

New Delhi:Congress president Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of implementing the note ban to help a handful of crony capitalist friends to convert black money into white. In a blistering

London: Coca-Cola on Friday said it had agreed to buy global coffee chain Costa from its owner Whitbread for 3.9 billion pounds (USD 5.1 billion). “Hot beverages is one of the few

New Delhi :Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram slammed the government after the RBI said that as much as 99.3 per cent of the demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes have returned

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said India is expected to surpass Britain next year to become world’s fifth largest economy. “This year, in terms of size, we have overtaken France. Next