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International Solar Alliance's foundation day meet: All you need to know

Sector experts said ISA is inspired from Sun-Son but now taken up at a larger level

SCO Summit 2018: India refuses to endorse Xi Jinping's OBOR at Qingdao

Earlier in the day, PM Modi said New Delhi supported connectivity but not at the cost of sovereignty and territorial integrity

Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2017: Big-bang promises missing

Though invited, former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry chose to stay away

Gujarat keeps mum on investment figures

Day 3 of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit saw the signing of 1,193 MoUs

State govt claims 66% success ratio for past seven Vibrant Gujarat summits

About 15 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies have confirmed participation in the eighth edition

Haryana inks 38 deals worth Rs 1.28 lakh crore on day one

At Davos, IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath flags global growth slowdown

IMF has projected global growth at 3.5 per cent in 2019 and 3.6 per cent in 2020, 0.2 and 0.1 percentage point below its October projections.

Rupani defends criticism around the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019

By March 31, 2019, the state government plans to ensure that projects, for which memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed in the recent VGGS 2019, would either commission or progress

The GST structure may be in for an overhaul

Some items will also be removed from the GST exemption list that attracted some form of taxation in the pre-GST regime

Why the airport project may not give Jewar the intended urban magnet tag

The city is up against heavily-developed regions in its own state and superior transport infrastructure in Haryana's Gurugram, Faridabad and Manesar

ADB trims India's FY20 growth forecast to 5.1%, cites consumption slowdown

ADB said growth should pick up to 6.5 per cent in the next fiscal year with supportive policies

Resurgence of Bengali-phobia driving anti-CAB protests in Assam

The fears of the ethnic population stem from the fact that Assam continues to be a society that feels it is becoming more 'Bengali' and less 'Assamese'

Data protection Bill arms Centre with exemption powers; tech firms worried

It may possibly be referred to a joint select committee subsequently

After dropping out of RCEP, India eyes trade deals with ASEAN countries

China said that the other 15 countries decided to move ahead with the pact and New Delhi was welcome to join RCEP whenever it was ready

Banks' FY19 retail loan growth slipped to 12%, slowest in 5 years: CRISIL

Adjusted for securitisation, loan book grows at 12% as against 16% in FY18

India, EU need to resolve issues of labour, sustainability holding up talks

The negotiations have been held up since 2013 due to differences on several contentious issues between the two sides

RBI had no objection to issuance of electoral bonds through SBI, says FM

She said the Committee of the Central Board (CCB) of RBI in its meeting held on October 11, 2017 indirectly agreed for electoral bonds to be issued if it is done by the SBI.

Rs 5 trn to be spent over 2 years on infra to spur economy: Gadkari

"We will spend Rs 2 trn in infrastructure projects in this fiscal (2019-20) and Rs 3 trn in the next fiscal (2020-21) to boost the economy and generate employment in thousands," Gadkari said

New GST rates likely from April 1; rate structure decision on Dec 18

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac told Business Standard that the proposal of tweaking the lower slabs would be strongly opposed

Fiscal deficit may slip to 3.5-3.8% in FY20; govt set to miss 3.3% target

The FRBM Act, after its amendment in 2018, allows a fiscal deficit slippage of not more than 0.5% for any given year, provided there are justifications