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What is WPI and CPI?
WPI is Wholesale Price Index while CPI is Consumer Price Index. Here are more details about them.
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Union Budget 2019: 14 facts on the Indian Budget and how it changed over the years
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman became only the second women in the history of independent India to present the first Union Budget of the Modi 2.0 government on July 5, 2019.
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What is Preferential Trade Agreements? List of Indian trade agreements
A glance at India's trade treaties with various countries.
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Interim Budget 2019: 14 interesting facts on the Indian Budget and how it changed over the years
The first Budget of independent India was only for seven and a half months and that was the time when the 'Interim Budget,' that meant budget for short period, came into being.
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What is an interim budget?
The interim budget will be presented by interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal in the Lok Sabha on February 1, 2019.
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Crorepati taxpayers rise by 68 per cent, direct tax collection increases by 15.7 per cent: CBDT
The number of taxpayers earning above Rs one crore per annum has risen to over 1.40 lakh in the country in the last four years, depicting a growth of about 60 per cent, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said on Monday.
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India adds 7,300 more millionaires in one year, has highest proportions of female billionaires
The total number of dollar-millionaires in India now stands at 3.43 lakh, who collectively hold around $6 trillion, says Credit Suisse.
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Hike in general provident fund: Know the difference between PF, PPF and GPF
The government has increased the rate of interest for the general provident fund and other related schemes. Are you confused? Here's the difference between PF, PPF and GPF
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India fastest growing economy in Asia, says Asian Development Bank
ADO published in April had said that India's economic growth will rise to 7.3 per cent this fiscal and further to 7.6 per cent in the next financial year.
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India bags the highest spot in growth projections set by IMF: Role, functions, relations at a glace
The IMF projected a growth rate of 7.3 per cent in 2018 and 7.5 per cent in 2019 for India as against 6.7 per cent in 2017, making it the fastest growing country among major economies.
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How is MSP for crops calculated and what are its flaws?
Right now, the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) has the responsibility of fixing the MSP in the country but the process has some flaws and we are here to point them out.
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One year of GST: Why one-nation-one-tax regime is far from being 'Good and Simple'
World Bank in its report in March said that Indian GST system is among the most complex in the world whereas HSBC report claims that it has failed to formalize the economy, which was its biggest promise.
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What is CRR or cash reserve ratio?
Know more about cash reserve ratio.
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What is Repo Rate?
Repo rate is the rate at which the central bank of a country lends money to commercial banks. Know more about it here.
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Despite demonetisation and GST, India becomes fastest growing economy in 2018: IMF
Despite several ups and downs in the economy, International Monetary Fund declared India as the fastest growing economy with a growth rate of 7.4 per cent.
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India top remittance recipient, sends about 69 billion dollars back home, says World Bank
Remittances -- or the transfer of money by a foreign worker to an individual in his/her home country -- were the highest in India, according to World Bank's latest report.
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India becomes the sixth largest economy in the world: IMF
India receives a strong piece of advice from the Indian Monetary Fund.
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Indian economy is more free as compared to last year, says Index of Economic Freedom
The Index of Economic Freedom 2018's facts and figures show that Indian economy has leaped up 13 spots from last year to earn the 130th spot in being economically free, and here is how.
