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GST will not hike inflation, assures Centre
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 25 (ANI): Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday rubbished reports of inflation hike post Goods and Services Tax (GST) roll out, and said that the tax reform will reduce the existing tax slab.
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MPC holds rates; low inflation in April reason for status quo: RBI
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), headed by Governor Urjit Patel kept the repo rate unchanged at 6.25 percent after its second bimonthly review of this financial year here today.
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RBI to keep policy rates unchanged: Economists
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announcing its second bi-monthly monetary policy review today, the economists have said that there would be no change to interest rates, adding that the apex body would adopt a wait and watch policy to see how inflation tr
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WPI for April stands at 3.85 pct; declines by 0.2 pct for all commodities
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Annual rate of inflation based on monthly Wholesale Price Index for April stood at 3.85 percent (provisional) as compared to 5.29 percent in March.
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Fall in WPI attributed to reduced fuel prices: FICCI
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 17 (ANI): According to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the decline in wholesale price-based inflation (WPI) is a result of a fall in the price of fuel and manufactured items.
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RBI policy as expected: Chief Economic Adviser, SBI
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 6 (ANI): The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) monetary policy announced earlier on Thursday has been hailed as a 'cautious' effort to tackle inflation and increase in liquidity.
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RBI holds repo rate but hikes reverse repo at 6 percent; projects inflatio
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 6 (ANI): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday kept its repo rate unchanged at 6.25 percent, but made changes in the reverse repo rate at 6 percent after all the six members of the monetary policy committee (MPC), headed by Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Pa
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"Too early" to make observation on GST: CPI
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 30 (ANI): After Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claimed that Goods and Services tax (GST) will not have any inflationary impact, The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Thursday said that it is "too early" to make such an observation as nobody is clear of the co
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Inflation soars to 3.65 per cent in February
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 15 (ANI): Retail inflation rose to a four-month high of 3.65 per cent in February this year, mainly due to an increase in the prices of food items.
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February WPI inflation rises 6.55 percent against 5.25 percent
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 14 (ANI): The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) or inflation for the month of February rose by 0.5 percent to 185.5 (provisional) from 184.6 (provisional) for the previous month.
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Retail inflation in Delhi, J&K more than double national average,
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 16 (ANI): The retail inflation may have been hovering at quite a reasonable level of 3.17 per cent for January, 2017 on an all-India basis, but there is no respite for people right in Delhi along with a couple of other states, suffering the price rise at double the nat
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FICCI President highlights an increase in inflation
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 14 (ANI): Commenting on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation numbers that was released on Tuesday, Pankaj Patel, President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) revealed that there has been an increase in inflation, primarily due t
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