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Business confidence in India at a 4-year low: FICCI survey
16 Sep 2013
A majority of firms have abandoned investment and hiring plans for at least the present, reveals an industry survey
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Oil companies hike petrol prices by Rs1.63 a litre
14 Sep 2013
IOC, the country’s largest oil retailer, said it would pass on to the consumer any beneficial effect of an improvement in the rupee’s value and stabilisation in oil prices
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India must deplete forex kitty to cover CAD gap: PM’s adviser
14 Sep 2013
India may have to draw about $9 billion from its foreign exchange reserves to finance the soaring CAD this year, C Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC), says
India’s GDP projected to grow at 5.3% in 2013-14
13 Sep 2013
`Economic Outlook’ report projects a per capita GDP growth of 4.8 per cent in 2013-14, against the 3.7 per cent growth in 2012-13
NMDC slapped Rs1,631 crore demand notice by IT
11 Sep 2013
Rupee firmer as stocks zoom, trade gap narrows
11 Sep 2013
Rupee closes higher at 65.24 against dollar
07 Sep 2013
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RBI seeks details of gold stocks with temples
06 Sep 2013
Faced with bulging twin deficits, the government and the RBI are looking at the over 20,000 tonnes of gold lying idle with households and some of the country's biggest temples to ease demand
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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