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Every Indian to own smartphone in 5 years: NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant

Digital transaction will touch $100 trillion in next 10 years: Amitabh Kant

ECs set to draw over Rs 200,000 a month, on a par with Supreme Court judges

A bill to hike the salary of Supreme Court and high court judges was passed by the Lok Sabha in the recently-concluded Winter session

Budget 2018: Railways to install escalators, lifts at all major stations

Railways recently revised the criteria for making urban and suburban stations eligible for installation of escalators

FY18 direct tax collection during Apr 1-Jan 15 rises 19% to Rs 6.89 trn

Refunds amounting to Rs 1.22 trillion have been issued during this period

Centre wants Odisha iron ore output ramped up 20% to match green limits

Closure of seven working mines in state has triggered sharp price hikes by both, lessees and NMDC

Trai to meet telcos on January 23 to chart out 2018 telecom agenda

A similar exercise had been undertaken in early 2017

West Bengal to see over Rs 43 bn investment in logistics by 2020: JLL India

The key markets across the state that would see development in the first phase

IEA chief says huge opportunity for US to export LNG to India, China

China, Birol said, will overtake the US as the largest oil consumer around 2030.

Post new call drop rules, Trai to report on cell service quality by Jan-end

Trai will also come out with its views on rules of tariff assessment by next week

India to be $5 trillion economy in 8-9 years, mfg share to be 20%: Prabhu

The minister said if manufacturing alone is digitised it will create a huge opportunity for technology firms

Budget 2018: Drop GST rate on biodiesel from 18% to 5%, demands industry

Levy on Biodiesel has gone from 6% in excise duty to 18% in GST

Budget 2018: Secondary steel makers want 2.5% import duty on scrap removed

India imports close to 7 million tonnes of scrap which leaves with a need to internally generate over 23 million tonnes of steel scrap annually

Government to auction 55 blocks for oil and gas exploration on Thursday

The blocks or areas that receive EoIs are put up for auction with the originator or the firm that originally selected the area getting a 5-mark advantage

Can Modi's home-for-all pledge create India's own subprime problem?

Indian banks have been channeling increasing amounts of credit to affordable housing after Modi promised to provide a home for every Indian family by 2022

India attracted 10 mn foreign tourists in 2017, sports to bring more

In January 2018 alone, the FTA number is expected to breach 1.2 million, the highest in any month during the last two years.

Entreprenuership, agri-innovation bring Modi-Netanyahu to Gujarat

The one day trip of Modi-Netanyahu will commence with a roadshow from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport to Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad

Black money stashed in Singapore banks since 2008 now under govt scanner

Switzerland has started collecting information of Indian accounts and will start sharing it with Indian authorities from next year

Anti-profiteering notice served on HUL; FMCG, IT firms may move HC

The notice to HUL is the DGS's sixth; it has already issued notices to other firms

After Qatar and Australia, GAIL India gets Russia to lower LNG import price

India has used its status as Asia's third-largest LNG buyer to renegotiate deals with Australia and Qatar

Gujarat, Bihar, four others join e-way Bill platform; GSTN begins trial run

Four states - Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Kerala had already started using e-way Bill