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India to become trillion dollar digital economy in coming years: RS Prasad
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 16 (ANI): Union Minister Ravi Shankar has said that the 'Digital India' programme was politics-neutral, centre-state-neutral and ideology-neutral while adding that the country is marching towards becoming a trillion dollar digital economy in the next two to three years
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Rajapaksha accuses UNP for delaying elections, destroying Lankan economy
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec 15 (ANI): Shortly after the disputed Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksha resigned from his post, he targeted Ranil Wickeremsinghe-led United National Party (UNP) for delaying the general elections to stay in power. He also accused Wickeremsinghe's government
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Urjit Patel's resignation severe blow to economy: Manmohan Singh
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said that Urjit Patel's resignation as the RBI Governor "is very unfortunate and is a severe blow to the nation's economy" and hoped that "the step isn't sign of government's sign to destroy India's economy."
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Patel's resignation will be bad for the country, economy: Subramanian Swam
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy has raised concern over the resignation of the RBI Governor Urjit R. Patel on Monday while asserting that it will be bad for the Indian economy.
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RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 6.5 pc
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra), [India], Dec 5 (ANI): In view of the "current and evolving macroeconomic situation" in the country, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday decided to keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.5 per cent. The decision wa
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Moody's estimates India's real GDP to grow at 7.2% in FY 2018-19
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 3 (ANI): Moody's Investors Service's annual Banking System Outlook on India estimated the country's real gross domestic product (GDP) for the current financial year and next fiscal to grow at 7.2 per cent and 7.4 per cent, respectively.
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G20: Xi, Trump meet amid heightened trade tensions
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], Dec 02 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday (local time) attended a highly-anticipated dinner with his United States counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Argentina. The meet was the two leaders' first in 2018, wherein an escalati
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Bangladeshi envoy calls for 'greater' Indian trade investment
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 30 (ANI): Describing Bangladesh as the "most liberal and business-friendly economy" in the region, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali has urged the Indian businessmen to make a greater investment in his country for mutual gains of the two closest ne
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Women to be `force to reckon with' in Asian Economies in this Decade: Topl
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 30 (NewsVoir): Topline Consulting, the insight-driven strategic communications consulting firm, in its 1st Annual Forum ?Empower Women Creations' deliberated on the contribution of women force in the rise of Asian economies in the coming decade.
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Talks on fugitive economic offenders, global economy at G20: PM Modi
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], Nov 30 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is currently in Argentina to attend the G20 summit, on Thursday said that issues pertaining to fugitive offenders and global economy, which are of major concern to the entire world, will be discussed in the summit.
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Jaitley hits back at Chidambaram, says new data series on GDP more realist
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 29 (ANI): A day after former Finance Minister P Chidambaram termed the revised Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data series published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) as a "bad joke," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday asserted that the new data provides gr
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India should have been a $5-6 trillion economy by now: Pranab Mukherjee
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Nov 29 (ANI): Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction over the current economic growth of the country and stated that India should have been a five to six trillion US dollar economy.
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