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Finance ministry looks to curb smuggling of top-end mobile phones

FinMin considers proposal to reduce basic Customs duty on phones with a cost, insurance and freight value of over Rs 35,000

Business confidence recovers from lows of 2019-20 and pandemic yrs: NCAER

Business confidence has recovered from the lows of the pre-pandemic (2019-20) and the following two pandemic years, though sentiments continued to soften in the current fiscal, NCAER said

India plans to cut gold import duty to arrest smuggling: Govt officials

The effective duty on gold is currently 18.45%, which includes 12.5% import duty, 2.5% agriculture infrastructure development cess and other taxes

Nitin Gadkari inaugurates highway projects worth Rs 6,800 crore in MP

The 28 national highway projects has a total length of 550 km

Emergency credit guarantee scheme helped save 1.46 mn MSMEs: Report

The country has around 64 million MSMEs as against 140 million in China

Tourism sector nets Rs 35K-crore investment proposals in Uttar pradesh

The intended investments pertain to a plethora of projects, including hotels, resorts, river cruise, wellness hubs, ecotourism, entertainment zones, theme parks, etc.

Chhattisgarh: Farmers in Bastar carve out new identity by planting coffee

Coffee cultivation in Bastar, which started in 2017 on an experimental basis in 20 acres by the horticulture department, has reached the farmers' fields

ECLGS scheme stopped Rs 2 trn MSME loans from turning bad: SBI report

Launched by govt during pandemic, it also helped save 16.5 million jobs

Put online gaming policy on hold: Law commission to MeitY officials

Ministry unlikely to shelve draft rules, asks commission to submit inputs

B20 can add value to G20 nations and the world, says N Chandrasekaran

The B20 is the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community

B20 has unique opportunity; can be value adding for world: N Chandrasekaran

The Business-20 has a unique opportunity and a very important role to play in working out agenda that can be value adding for all G-20 nations and the rest of the world, N Chandrasekaran said

4G and 5G stacks can handle 10 mn simultaneous calls: Vaishnaw at B20 meet

Entire stack of indigenously built 4G & 5G will be offered to the world in 2024

India's crude imports hit 5-month high in December on cheap Russian supply

Russia continued to be the top oil supplier to India in December, shipping a record 1.25 million barrels per day (bpd)

New data protection law to straddle individual rights, innovation: Vaishnaw

Indigenously developed 5G, 4G telecom technology stack will be rolled out in the country this year

Govt launches U-WIN to digitise India's universal immunisation programme

The U-WIN is going to be the single source of information for immunisation services, updating vaccination status, delivery outcome, planning of RI sessions and reports like antigen-wise coverage, etc

PM Gati Shakti to help reduce logistic obstacles, improve efficiency: DPIIT

He also said that the PM GatiShakti portal has over 1,600 data layers related to subjects such as land, forest, mines and existing infrastructure

Agri Infrastructure Fund crosses Rs 30,000-cr mark of capital mobilisation

Agriculture Infra Fund (AIF) is a financing facility launched on 8th July 2020 for creation of post-harvest management infrastructure and community farm assets

BIS conducts raids across Maharashtra to crack down on hallmarked jewellery

2.75 kg gold worth Rs 1.5 cr seized from outlets in Mumbai's Zaveri Bazar; Nagpur, Pune and Thane anong other cities targeted

The gas paradox: Govt encouraging huge investment to push demand

But imposing policies that deter domestic exploration and production

Govt to tap brakes on capex growth, key subsidies, finds poll of economists

Food and fertiliser subsidies that help two-thirds of India's 1.4 billion people will also be scaled back