Daily wage earners and casual low income group workers were the worst affected
Many hurdles that investors could have faced after enrolling for the scheme have been removed.
People can deposit idle gold with authorised agencies and take advantage of the price escalation of gold as well as earn interest on the deposit.
After dematerialising crores of shares over the past seven years, the National Securities Depository Ltd is set to extend the service to other financial instruments.
Frankly, there is no reason not to open a PPF account and start investing in PPF
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Retirees must also try and purchase a senior citizens' policy, despite steep premiums.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan dashed off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention for repealing the measure. He said the Centre's decision amounts to an "intrusion" to the rights of the states in the country's federal structure.
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The fate of Indian Premier League teams -- Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals -- will be known on Tuesday when the Supreme Court-appointed high-level Committee headed by former Chief Justice of India R M Lodha will pronounce the quantum of punishment against their franchisees and their team officials Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra for betting during the sixth edition of the T20 tournament in 2013.
The Supreme Court on Friday dubbed as a "serious issue" the long queues outside banks and post offices and expressed its reservation on the Centre's plea seeking a direction that no other court in the country should entertain petitions challenging the November 8 notification demonetising Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes.
The West Bengal chief minister also accused the PM of 'removing crucial files' related to demonetisation.
The government on Thursday ruled out the possibility of privatising postal services in the country.\n\n\n\n
The sustainability of these savings schemes is more in doubt today than it ever was.
Western Union, a money transfer service provider, has tied up with Australia Post to provide facility to the Indian community in Australia to remit funds into the country.
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Today, money is pouring into government saving schemes on the premise that the return is being guaranteed by the Government of India. But is the chance of default really zero?
For 70 years the country has been looted, give me 70 months I will clean it up, he said.
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Under the scheme coming into effect from April 1, 2018, a donor could purchase bonds from authorised banks against cheques or digital payments. These would be redeemed only in the designated account of a registered political party.
In the first of a four-part series, Business Standard takes a look at how a mint in Salboni, West Bengal, is working overtime to print currency notes.
It is best to invest long-term surplus in stocks or equity mutual funds.
"Slogans are a subset of freedom of expression. You express your politics through it. I can chant any slogan, you can differ or agree. But you can't slap sedition charges," Aparajitha Raja, the 25-year-old president of the JNU unit of AISF and daughter of CPI leader D Raja, tells Shivam Saini.
A N Shanbhag examines various proposals of Budget 2003 which are of interest to individual assessees.
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