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FORE School awarded for industry centric curriculum
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI-NewsVoir): At the recently held "The EduMeet 2018 & Education Excellence Awards" at Hyatt Regency, Kolkata' organized by ASSOCHAM India, Dr. Jitendra K. Das, Director at FORE School of Management, New Delhi, referring to autonomy and regulations in higher educ
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Experts confident on the long-term benefits of GST
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): July heralds one year of the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime in the Indian economy. More than 1 crore businesses have registered under GST, subsuming over a dozen different indirect central and state taxes.
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ASSOCHAM urges RBI, FinMin to work towards Rupee stability
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Finance Ministry should work in unison to ensure that the Rupee does not face any more significant fall from the current levels, the ASSOCHAM said.
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Number of online shoppers to surpass 120M in 2018
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): A recent study has revealed that over 120 million Indian consumers are expected to shop online this year.
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ASSOCHAM urges monthly release of payroll numbers
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): India is in need of a credible system of mapping job creation or any other reverse trend, so that the government's policies along with those of several other sectors such as financial markets, consumer goods companies, automobile manufacturers and real estat
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Banks credit in personal loans too high compared to degrowth in infra sect
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): Banks are deploying credit over-enthusiastically in retail finance like personal loans, credit card overdrafts, vehicle loans, while witnessing negative growth in key infrastructure sectors like telecom, power and roads, an ASSOCHAM paper noted on Sunday.
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Political economy to centre around investors 'wait and watch'' stance: ASS
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] May 13 (ANI): Whatever the outcome of Karnataka elections, the political-economic narrative of 2018 and early part of 2019 would centre around either the impending polls in states like Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan or the general Lok Sabha elections, forcing investors to ad
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CCI calls for uniform threshold for merger review control
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Competition Commission of India (CCI) chairman Devender Kumar Sikri stressed on the need for India to revisit the desirability of uniform threshold for the merger review control regime in the country to achieve the intended goals across the sectors including
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'Easier access to ECBs will attract higher investment'
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): Easy and dedicated access to institutional financing, and higher limit on external commercial borrowings (ECB) will attract more investments and assure sustained growth of affordable housing in India, according to Sriram Kalyanaraman, Managing Director and CE
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ASSOCHAM urges greater utilisation of technology in pharmaceuticals
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): Advanced, affordable and accessible solutions are the only way forward towards intensifying the innovations in the Indian pharmaceutical sector, a top Union Health Ministry official said at an ASSOCHAM event in the national capital.
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Lack of corporate governance being tackled: ASSOCHAM
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): Amid rising cases of insolvency in the corporate sector, the ASSOCHAM noted that the Indian stock market is showing an increasing tendency for zero tolerance for any perceived dishonesty on the part of companies, expecting them to remain fully transparent a
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ASSOCHAM calls for urgent fixing of twin balance sheet problem
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): Inability of the banks, reeling under the mammoth problem of non-performing assets (NPA) to lend, coupled with lack of appetite for fresh investment by highly indebted India Inc. has resulted in most of the industry sectors reporting negative growth in depl
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