On being asked if the Centre will take a proposal for bringing petrol and diesel under GST to the GST Council, the finance minister said a call will be taken \"closer to the date of the Council meeting.\"

Among a series of glitches since 2020, the one at NSE is the latest, which forced India's largest bourse to shut down for nearly four hours. A look at some 'technical glitches' at major financial and industrial institutions that have occurred in recent past

Das says RBI does not want to be left behind in the technological revolution, and that the benefits of blockchain technology need to be capitalised on

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The RBI working paper co-authored by RBI Deputy Governor Michael Debabrata Patra,  who is also a member of the six-member monetary policy committee has recommended that maintaining the inflation target at 4 per cent is appropriate for the country

In the Union Budget 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced that disinvestment of Pawan Hans would be completed in 2021-22

This was the Finance Minister's first address to the market regulator after presenting the Union Budget 2021 before the Parliament on February 1, 2021

Bitcoin breached $50,000 mark for the first time on Tuesday, mainly due to increasing interest and participation from institutional investors

Bitcoin breached $50,000 mark for the first time on Tuesday, mainly due to increasing interest and participation from institutional investors

Joe Biden to discuss COVID-19 pandemic, China in G7 meet on Friday; FM Sitharaman to address post-Budget RBI board meeting on Feb 16; Foreign investors pump in Rs 22,000 crore in February. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: New labour codes to affect employees' in-hand salary, companies wage bill

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi saying he is becoming a \"doomsday man\" for India by constantly insulting constitutional functionaries and \"creating fake narratives\" on various issues. The comment took place after Rahul Gandhi said in the Lok Sabha that the country was being run by only four people with a 'Hum Do, Hamare Do' approach. The Finance Minister then replied to the Congress leader with a \"daughter and damad\" dig. Replying to a debate on the Union Budget in Lok Sabha, Sitharaman said, \"Hum Do, Hamare Do is that - we are two people taking care of the party and there are two others who I have to take care of - daughter and damad... We don't do that.\" Watch the video for more details. ALSO READ: 'Doomsday man of India,' FM Sitharaman tears into Rahul Gandhi over crony capital comment on budget

Post-budget cheer: Foreign investors pump in Rs 22,000 crore in February Overseas investors pumped in Rs 22,038 crore into the Indian markets in February so far amid positive sentiments around the Union Budget. According to depositories data, overseas investors poured Rs 20,593 crore into equities and Rs 1,445 crore in the debt segment, taking the total net investment to Rs 22,038 crore between February 1-12. Centre issues fresh SOPs to contain COVID-19 spread in offices The Union healt...

Rahul Gandhi felt the tremors while attending a live virtual interaction with historian Dipesh Chakrabarty and political science students from the University of Chicago

The Delhi-Saharanpur-Dehradun corridor will reduce the distance between the two cities from 235 kilometres at present to 210 kilometres cutting travel time from 6.5 hours currently to 2.5 hours

India Today Conclave East: Number of people employed in manufacturing in Bengal is thrice than that in Gujarat. Problem is the nature of manufacturing, said Bibek Debroy

Cryptocurrency exchanges in India have witnessed multifold jump in their daily trades after Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, soared over 310 per cent in 2020

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech announced Rs 12 lakh crore of central government's gross borrowing in FY22 and an additional Rs 80,000 crore in rest of FY21

Billionaire Gautam Adani-led Adani Group has completed acquisition of 23.5 per cent equity stake in Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL); Buyers of new vehicles after opting for scrapping of their old and polluting vehicles will be offered benefits under the new policy to phase out old and polluting vehicles, Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said; Massive flooding from a glacier burst in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district has been reported in the Dhauli Ganga river and Joshimath on Sunday, February 7. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: RBI to conduct OMOs for Rs 20,000 crore on February 10

The increase in the agriculture credit with a target of Rs 16.5 lakh crore and the allocation of infrastructure fund for the development of APMCs reiterates the government's commitment to the welfare of farmers, and is a great move

Budget 2021 has re-imagined both spending and borrowing and reposed faith in large-scale infrastructure building and healthcare as well as bold disinvestment to trigger economic growth and consumption cycle in the economy. That's just what the doctor ordered