Investment

Higher education institutions should be allowed to invest their surpluses, estimated at Rs.15,000 crore, in a wider range of asset classes, said the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in a pre-Budget interaction with the Finance Ministry.

The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) latest paper on term premium captures the investors’ expectations of future central bank policy, inflation and growth shocks.

India has to boost its high-technology product exports with a new strategy, Sharad Kumar Saraf, President of the Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO), has said in his market outlook for 2020.

The Government has been urged to reduce royalty rates on mining resources and accelerate the renewable of mining leases that are expiring in 2020.

There are nascent signs that the economy is on a better footing than what it was in the year gone by, said the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in a New Year message on 28 Dec 2019.

The mining sector has called for a much sharper focus and concerted efforts by the policy makers and industry players to regain 3% share in the GDP by FY25, reveals a report ‘Towards a Globally Competitive Minerals & Mining Industry’.

India is set to become the world’s third largest economy in 2034, over taking Japan, according to the London-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr).

Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have sanctioned over 11.68 lakh Repo-linked loans to retail borrowers for home, vehicle, education and personal loans and to micro and small enterprises, amounting to Rs.1.32 lakh crore post Finance Minister’s announcements on 23 Aug 2019...

The Government’s extensive reforms have restored financial health of banks, with the gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) declining from Rs.8.96 lakh crore in March 2018 to Rs.7.27 lakh crore in September 2019.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has launched the mobile app of the forthcoming DefExpo 2020 in Delhi on 27 Dec 2019, which provides detailed information about the day-to-day events; participating exhibitors; Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs), guest speakers of seminars/webinars; publications...