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Govt may increase customs duty on certain components in Union Budget 2021:
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Narendra Modi led NDA government's eighth budget amid the Covid-19 pandemic and under the unprecedented economic crisis triggered by it. This time, the Central Government may increase the custo
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Coronavirus expected to kill over 6,00,000 people in US: Biden
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 23 (ANI): The coronavirus pandemic is expected to kill more than 600,000 people in the United States, President Joe Biden said on Friday.
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Putin compares nature of COVID-induced global economic crisis to Great Dep
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], November 21 (ANI): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday at the G20 summit called the economic crisis caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic 'a major world crisis' since the Great Depression.
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HR executive starts Rice ATM to help the poor hit by pandemic
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 3 (ANI): Moved by the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Dosapati Ramu, a human resource executive in a corporate firm started a 'Rice ATM' to feed the poor and needy during the lockdown.
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Karnataka govt mismanagement, impact of COVID responsible for economic cri
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 25 (ANI): Mismanagement by the state government and the impact of COVID-19 are responsible for the economic crisis in the state, said leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah on Friday.
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Deepening economic crisis: Chidambaram brings up aviation, telecom
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI):Targetting the central government over the "deepening economic crisis", senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday asserted that two major industries -- telecom and aviation -- are on the verge of collapse.
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Sri Lanka signs $400mn currency swap facility with RBI to meet short term
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 24 (ANI): Sri Lanka on Friday signed a USD 400 million currency swap agreement with India's Reserve Bank of India (RBI), valid till November 2022, to meet short-term international liquidity requirements following the economic crisis resulted from COVID-19.
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Haryana stops DA at current rate till July 2021
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana), [India], July 7 (ANI): The COVID-19 induced economic crisis has compelled the Haryana government to freeze Dearness Allowances to state government employees and Dearness Relief to its pensioners at current rate till July next year, an official statement by the Haryana F
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Microsoft to help 25 million people acquire new digital skills needed for
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Microsoft Corporation has announced a new global skills initiative aimed at bringing more digital skills to 25 million people worldwide by the end of the year.
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PM Modi, Trudeau discuss possiblities of international collaboration to ad
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau on Tuesday discussed the possibilities of international collaboration to address the ongoing health and economic crisis.
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45 pc of Finway customers have taken moratorium pan-India
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): Non-banking financial company (NBFC) Finway on Wednesday expressed concern regarding current loan repayments in the country and mindset of borrowers.
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Fewer hours, less pay and more anxiety greet Americans returning to work a
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 9 (ANI): Shorter duration of work hours, increased pay cuts and more responsibilities have become the new normal at workplaces for millions of Americans who returned to work amid the worst economic crisis in a generation owing to the coronavirus outbreak.
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