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The Economic Survey on Friday warned against farm loan waivers.

Farm loan waiver may push inflation by 0.2 per cent: RBI paper

Farm loan waivers have been announced intermittently by both the central and state governments to provide relief to...

12 Sept 2017 10:29 AM IST

Direct Tax collections, up to this year August, continued to register steady growth. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

Direct Tax collections till Aug at Rs 2.24 lakh crore, up 17.5 per...

This collection is 22.9 percent of total Budget Estimates of Direct Taxes for Financial Year 2017-18.

12 Sept 2017 10:28 AM IST

RBI has included HDFC in its list of too big to fail banks.

RBI net dollar purchase in July at $2.9 billion

RBI intervenes in the foreign exchange market to contain volatility in the rupee market.

11 Sept 2017 7:52 PM IST

Income tax investigators raided as many as 35 premises belonging to 7 finance firms in Salem, Karur and Tirupur since Thursday night, I-T sources said here on Friday.

Direct tax revenue grows 17.5 per cent to Rs 2.24 lakh crore in...

The government estimates to collect Rs 9.80 lakh crore from direct taxes in the current fiscal.

11 Sept 2017 7:43 PM IST

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan. (Photo: PTI)

We could have managed liquidity in banking system better: Rajan

He adds central bank acted promptly to retrieve situation once problem of liquidity shortage was thrown up by data.

11 Sept 2017 5:41 PM IST

An elderly man waits at the treasury to draw pension in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday. (Photo: DC)

Age limit for National Pension Scheme raised to 65 years

The move was part of the government's efforts at expanding the pension base.

11 Sept 2017 5:11 PM IST

India will buy an additional one million tonnes per annum of LNG from Australias Gorgon project after it got Exxon Mobil Corp to cut prices. Photo: AP

India to buy 1 mt Australian LNG more after new price maths

Exxon will charge 12.5 per cent of prevailing Brent oil price for about 1 mt per annum of additional LNG.

11 Sept 2017 4:14 PM IST

In case of any changes between NPR and Aadhaar data, they will update the NPR database on the spot. The NPR database-Aadhaar linkage will be done on the spot if found to be not linked.

Watch: Charges for Aadhaar services

Aadhaar enrolment is free of cost but there are some nominal charges for few services.

11 Sept 2017 2:21 PM IST

Diverting from retail inflation, wholesale inflation (WPI) fell to 5.70 per cent in March from 6.55 per cent in the previous month.

August inflation seen at 5-month high on rising food costs

Consumer prices were forecast up at 3.20 per cent in Aug from a year ago jumping from July's 2.36 per cent.

11 Sept 2017 1:10 PM IST

UIDAI on Sunday asserted that Aadhaar system has stringent security features to prevent any unauthorised capture or transmission of data. Photo

Aadhaar-SIM card linking may become must! Here is how you can do it

The government is likely to mandate the linking of Aadhaar with SIM cards by February 2018.

11 Sept 2017 12:13 PM IST

Guarantee Clause, the Governors signature with the Promise Clause, and the RBIs emblem on the right side, Denominational numeral with the rupee symbol, 2000 in colour changing ink (green to blue) on bottom right.

Rupee softens 9 paise against dollar in early trade

A strong dollar in overseas markets weighed on the rupee sentiment, currency traders said.

11 Sept 2017 10:39 AM IST

The RBI on Sunday said it is using sophisticated machines to test the accuracy of the demonetised notes. Photo: PTI

RBI using 'sophisticated' machines to tally Rs 500, Rs 1,000...

This statement comes after reports quoted the bank's RTI reply saying it was not using machines to tally the scrapped...

11 Sept 2017 10:01 AM IST