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Jaitley formally launches Airtel’s payments bank
12 Jan 2017
RBI grants permission to Paytm for payments bank
04 Jan 2017
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GST rollout to be delayed as states put up fresh demands
04 Jan 2017
With coastal states demanding rights to levy GST on trade in goods within 12 nautical miles off shore holding law on Integrated-GST (IGST) and non-BJP states demanding higher compensation for post-demonetisation revenue fall, GST roll-out looks unlikely in the near term
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Home, auto loans to be cheaper as SBI cuts MCLR by 90 bps to 8%
02 Jan 2017
Other lenders such as Punjab national Bank and Union Bank of India also reduced their marginal cost of funds-based lending rates effective today, while IDBI Bank and SBI associate State bank of Travancore had already reduced their lending rates
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Daily limit for ATM withdrawals raised to Rs4,500
31 Dec 2016
While the daily withdrawal limit at ATMS has gone up, there is no change in the weekly withdrawal cap, which stays at Rs24,000
IDBI Bank, SBT cut lending rates
31 Dec 2016
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Banks' stressed loans increase from 7.8% to 9.1% in March-Sept: RBI
30 Dec 2016
The gross non-performing advances ratio of scheduled commercial banks increased to 9.1 per cent from 7.8 per cent between March and September 2016, pushing the overall stressed advances ratio to 12.3 per cent from 11.5 per cent
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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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