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Raghuram Rajan is Central Banker of the Year 2016
08 Jan 2016
Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has been conferred with the Central Banker of the Year Award for 2016 by The Banker
After SBI, HDFC Bank cuts base rate by 0.05%
30 Dec 2015
Real estate prices on the upswing: RBI report
19 Dec 2015
Debt is dynamite, RBI chief Rajan warns business
11 Dec 2015
Indirect tax collection up 34% in April-November
09 Dec 2015
EPFO likely to consider hike in PF rate today
09 Dec 2015
Rajya Sabha to take up GST bill on Monday
05 Dec 2015
There is now a greater chance of the proposed legislation on a unified sales tax regime getting nod of the Rajya Sabha as well, after a government-appointed panel backed a lower rate and simpler structure that the opposition Congress party too had demanded
GST panel suggests standard GST rate of 17-18%
04 Dec 2015
The committee noted that the more the exemptions that are retained in the GST bill the higher will be the standard rate: the broader the scope of exemptions, the less effective the GST will be
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