Import by 4-star and 5-star export houses effectively barred from importing for domestic consumption.
Those selling ornaments with lower purity might now offer hefty discounts in order to get rid of non-hallmarked stocks
While the IMD had forecast a 'normal' monsoon for the entire season, Skymet stated that rain this year would be 'below normal', report Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Sahil Makkar.
Dhanteras is considered auspicious for investment and buying gold.
Now, in many cases, they give no old jewellery but the bills they get show gold as provided by them, the jeweller's making charge and the GST on that.
Agriculturally important UP, MP, Haryana, Maharashtra, and Punjab received 20-30% shortfall in rain
Debroy is expected to have a role and responsibility similar to the erstwhile chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council
Travel time, too, has not fallen much after the abolition of octroi with trucks still queued up at regional transport offices and toll tax plazas.
DroughtThe Centre is expected to discuss issues related to drought management and also review the progress of major central schemes like soil health cards, irrigation programmes
The cryptocurrency will fall in the RBI's domain.
The options include involving jewellers as collection centres, addressing of issues that banks have been facing and using domestically available gold for giving metal loans to jewellers for domestic sales.
Indian industry will have to deal with high raw material prices, and user industries will see their costs rising though with a lag in some cases.
The theme of the reshuffle is to fulfill Modi's earlier promise of 'maximum governance, minimum government.' Some key ministries are likely to be merged.
Tamil Nadu, the best-performing state, managed to do this in 63 days. Land allotment took 156 days nationally and 28 days in Himachal Pradesh. Environmental approval took 91 days nationally and 25 days in Chhattisgarh.
Dealers with turnover of Rs 2 crore and above covered; industry says threshold too low
According to government data, the prices have still not crossed the MSPs in some mandis.
On an average most commodities are up between 20-30 per cent compared to a year ago levels.
Of the 11,000 kg imported between July 1 and August 9, around 90 per cent was brought in by two business groups which took advantage of the favourable reduction in tax incidence under GST, routing their imports through Korea.
Steps such as safeguard duty in the works to plug the route
While Bibek Debroy echoed his view in Twitter, Pronob Sen questioned Kumar's conclusion
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