Arun Jaitley had proposed in the Budget to double the rate of capital gains tax on debt MFs to 20%.
The broader markets ended in line with the benchmark indices- BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices ended higher by 1.3% and 0.9% each.
Apart from streamlining loan processing, most public sector banks charge lower interest rate, an aspect which seems to be game changer.
In the past four months, launches of luxury and super luxury cars have sped ahead of non-luxury ones.
In five years, royalty payments have grown 31.1% yearly, much faster than rise in revenue and profit.
With over 200 brands and websites as participants this year, the Google Online Shopping Festival is turning bigger.
According to estimates, if the companies are not allowed to raise petrol rates at least Rs 5 a litre by the first fortnight of September, they might begin to suffer underrecoveries on this decontrolled auto fuel, too -- for the first time this financial year.
Each city would get Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) every year.
Though inflation, on the basis of the wholesale price index, is nowhere near the 1990-91 level of 10.26 per cent and India is in a much better position to check it, the greater integration of our economy with the globe has exposed it to a much higher risk of imported inflation.
The e-commerce sector gave a much higher average hike of 16-20 per cent to its executives.
Lenders are not enthused because, as brokers, their responsibility towards policyholders will be higher than corporate agents.
Among the greatest mistakes women make in their career is losing track of their career goals, not taking additional responsibilities and learning new skills and technology.
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