Economy - general

Amul told to ensure bank accounts for all its milk producers by 30 December

24 Dec 2016

Now use old notes for PM’s Garib Kalyan Yojana till 30 Dec

23 Dec 2016

Tax and penalty payments under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana after the 30 December deadline will have to be made in legal tender or cheques or drafts or in digital made only

India pips Britain to become world's sixth largest economy

21 Dec 2016

India's economy has reportedly overtaken the UK's for the first time in over 100 years on the back of a faster rate of economic growth and the economic slump in the UK after the Brexit vote

Make digital payments cost-free to push cash-less transactions: Trai chief

20 Dec 2016

EPFO fixes interest rate on PDF deposits for 2016-17 lower at 8.65%

19 Dec 2016

Black money could now flow into the coffers of political parties, warns EC

19 Dec 2016

Funny money: I-T issues 3,000 notices; seizures worth Rs393 cr

17 Dec 2016

PM's Garib Kalyan tax scheme for black money holders opens tomorrow

16 Dec 2016

Focus now on printing Rs500 notes; ‘surgical strikes’ to continue

16 Dec 2016

I-T Dept warns assessees against drastic revision of returns

16 Dec 2016

Digital economy to substitute parallel economy: Arun Jaitley

16 Dec 2016

Digital transactions will be a parallel mechanism and will not completely do away with cash transactions, but help check black money cash transactions, finance minister Arun Jaitley says

Cash crunch could end by February '17: report

15 Dec 2016

Cash disbursement to the public could touch Rs14 lakh crore by the second week of February — or over 90 per cent of the amount withdrawn from the system on 8 November

SC seeks report in 6 months on government plans to curb drug abuse in children

14 Dec 2016

Wholesale price inflation a tad lower at 3.15% in November

14 Dec 2016

India has miles to go to achieve universal health coverage: WHO

14 Dec 2016

Opec output cut to add to India’s demonetisation woes

14 Dec 2016

Tip-off leads Delhi cops to Rs3.25 cr in old currency; 5 held

14 Dec 2016

Consumer price inflation falls to a 2-year low of 3.63% in November

13 Dec 2016

The cooling of inflation was brought about by a sharp drop in vegetable prices and in part by a cash crunch resulting from the government’s move to demonetise high-value currency notes

Chennai limps back day after Cyclone Vardah left 6 dead

13 Dec 2016

The first 'very severe cyclonic storm' to hit the city and the first cyclone in city since 1994, Vardah left 6 people, including 4 women and a 3-year-old child dead in Chennai and another person in Kanchipuram and left 2,810 trees uprooted

Committee on digital payments recommends inclusion of all

10 Dec 2016

Rs70 lakh in new Rs2,000 notes seized from postal official’s kin in Hyderabad

10 Dec 2016

India’s industrial production contracts 1.9% in October

09 Dec 2016

Govt to print plastic currency to foil counterfeiting; scraps all Rs500 notes

09 Dec 2016

The government is working on the introduction of plastic currency notes in its bid to stop counterfeiting of banknotes, even as the abrupt demonetisation failed to drive out bad money from the economy