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UP to press private sugar mills to pay farmers as arrears top Rs 10,000 cr

Rs 1,500 crore likely to be transferred to farmers' bank accounts in couple of days

Inflation, GDP among slew of tough economic issues awaiting next govt

Coalition or otherwise, the new govt will also have its hands full dealing with the IL&FS and Jet Airways crisis, crude prices and bank consolidation

Domino effect of auto crisis: Livelihoods, India's GDP growth may take hit

35 million jobs at stake with India's automobile sector in trouble, components business could be impacted as well

New govt should ease land acquisition, scrap archaic labour laws: CEA

It will also have to continue to clamp down on wilful defaulters, money laundering, and tax evasion to restore confidence in the corporate sector, said Krishnamurthy Subramanian

Modi govt's failure to bury tax terrorism left foreign investors cold

The niggling suspicion of global investors that they could lose billions to policy fickleness is far from allayed

How demonetisation ended golden days of workers in India's plywood capital

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation, withdrawing 86%, by value, of India's currency on 8th November 2016.

India's import cover falls marginally to 9.1 months at end of Dec 2018: RBI

Gold's share in the total foreign exchange reserves stood at about 5.59% as at end-March

India's economic growth set to gain pace despite US-China trade conflict

Reports by UN, OECD forecast slow growth worldwide as trade tensions, policy uncertainties rise

RBI plans to build a cadre for supervisory and regulatory roles

Will set up an institute, to be known as College of Supervisors, to train the cadre

High level committee recommends strategy to reduce crude oil imports

The import dependency of crude oil and liquified natural gas during the year was 82.59 per cent and 45.89 per cent

India, Myanmar hold joint naval drill as New Delhi cements leadership role

India's acceptance of the UNCLOS arbitration award contrasts starkly with China

I-T dept set to bring changes in tax audit report for charitable trusts

Report seeks extensive details of operations of trusts, ensuring compliance with applicable processes

Explained: Why food and grocery retail looks like a tough nut to crack

The sale of Nature's Basket, Godrej's chain of food stores in west India, is the second exit by a big group in a year in the category

RBI rules out credit line for NBFCs, discusses revised bad loan circular

The original 'resolution of stressed assets' framework created a huge rift between the government and the RBI, and perhaps led to the exit of Urjit Patel as governor

Aviation to roads: Here're the key transport challenges for the next govt

Two of the country's biggest airlines - Jet Airways and Air India - are facing financial stress

Good days are far away: New investment projects in India remain in a slump

Not only is the investment demand slowing down but consumption demand is also showing signs of moderation as revealed by various leading indicators

How the next govt can put banking and financial sector back on track

With just a moon-phase to go before the reset in the finance minister's office, the big question is: What's the extent of grease needed from here on

Numbers show next govt's job at hand is to boost employment in India

There is no comparable data for the previous year since compilation of this data started from September, 2017

Indian Railways improves operating ratio by a tad to 97.3% in FY19

NTPC paid transporter Rs 10,000 crore as freight advance; Concor Rs 3,000 crore

Odisha's MSMEs face Rs 4,000 cr loss after cyclone fury, seek Modi's help

Odisha trade body asks for interest rates on loans to be eased, relaxation on GST application, partial loans waivers and subsidy grants