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Lok Sabha passes Demand for Grants authorising expenditure of about Rs 45 lakh crore for Financial Year 2023-24 by voice vote amid din

ION correspondentMarch 24, 2023March 24, 2023

The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed Demand for Grants authorising expenditure of about 45 lakh crore rupees for Financial Year 2023-24 by voice vote amid din. When the House...

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IT firm Accenture to lay off 19,000 employees amid global headwinds & slow revenue growth

ION correspondentMarch 24, 2023March 24, 2023

Global IT services firm Accenture, which has a large presence in India, on Thursday announced to lay off nearly 19,000 employees amid the challenging global macro-economic conditions and slow...

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PMLA likely to apply on trade in crypto currencies

ION correspondentMarch 9, 2023March 9, 2023

The government has said that the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 will apply to trade in crypto currencies or virtual assets. In a notification, the Ministry of Finance said...

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Foreign investors pump more than Rs 9,400 crore into the Indian capital markets in March, so far

ION correspondentMarch 6, 2023March 6, 2023

Foreign investors pumped more than Rs 9,400 crore into the Indian capital markets this month, so far. Foreign Portfolio investors (FPIs) invested Rs 8,939 crore in the equities market,...

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SC forms expert committee to probe recent Adani Cos’ share crash

ION correspondentMarch 2, 2023March 2, 2023

The Supreme Court has ordered setting up of committee headed by ex-apex court judge A M Sapre to probe recent share crash. SC has asked the probe panel to...

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‘G20 FMCBG meet accepts Crypto Assets are major risks to financial stability’

ION correspondentFebruary 27, 2023February 27, 2023

In the first major ministerial engagement under G20, where, India welcomed the debate on Crypto Assets proposing regulations and a policy perspective on the use of Crypto Assets. Participating...

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Domestic Aviation traffic registers annual growth of 95.72 percent

ION correspondentFebruary 21, 2023February 21, 2023

Domestic Aviation traffic has witnessed a big growth in January 2023 as over one crore 25 lakh passengers were carried by domestic airlines in comparison to nearly 64 lakhs...

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Loan EMIs may go up as RBI announces sixth straight lending rate hike

ION correspondentFebruary 8, 2023February 8, 2023

The Reserve Bank of India has increased the repo rate by 25 Basis points to 6.5 per cent. Since May 2022, the RBI has increased the repo rate by...

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Adani co. Stocks fall by over 30% hitting multiple trading stops

ION correspondentFebruary 3, 2023February 3, 2023

Billionaire Gautam Adani denied Friday that his rise to become Asia’s richest man — a title he has lost in a phenomenal stock rout — was due to Prime...

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Budget 2023 – huge income tax relief, infra and jobs push

ION correspondentFebruary 1, 2023February 1, 2023

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a big ticket budget ahead of next year’s general elections which included huge capital outlay in infrastructure and agri sectors and reworked tax...