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Railway Minister Piyush Goyal.

States to test GST cashback for payments via Rupay, BHIM app

Customers making payments using Rupay card and BHIM UPI, would get a cashback of 20 per cent of the total GST amount.

4 Aug 2018 5:23 PM IST

Economist Sanjeev Sanyal.

GST slabs may reduce to 3 in long-term: Sanjeev Sanyal

Presently, there are four GST slabs of 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent, plus the exempted category which attracts 0 per cent...

4 Aug 2018 4:13 PM IST

Bullion traders said at overseas market gold rallied to highest level this year. (Photo: Representational/AFP)

Gold extends gains on firm global cues; silver tops Rs 39,000

Gold is trading at Rs 30,550 per 10 grams on sustained buying by local jewellers amid a firm trend overseas.

4 Aug 2018 2:33 PM IST

Benchmark Sensex surged 577 points to end at 33,597 on Thursday.

Sensex mark second straight weekly gain, up 219 points

The Sensex gained 840.48 points or 2.30 per cent in the previous week session.

4 Aug 2018 1:41 PM IST

The state consumer commission had held Jet Airways responsible for causing losses to a passenger.

Endeavouring to help airline achieve cost efficiencies: Jet Airways'...

As part of cost reduction efforts, Jet Airways' has asked its employees, including pilots, to take steep pay cuts.

4 Aug 2018 12:28 PM IST

During April-December period, exports grew marginally by 0.75 per cent USD 198.8 billion.

Higher import duties on 29 US products to be effective from Sep 18:...

Duty imposed by the US has affected steel exports by USD 198.6 million and aluminium shipments by USD 42.4 million.

4 Aug 2018 12:14 PM IST

According to HSBC, the public spending component of GVA and the government consumption component of GDP grew at a rapid pace, accounting for roughly one-fifth of overall growth.

India poised for quantum GDP growth by 2030: NALCO CMD

Growth of the country will come in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector.

4 Aug 2018 11:33 AM IST

Photographer Rich McCor creatively sketches out paper cutouts to click them at popular tourist destinations to make interesting creations. (Photo: Instagram/paperboyo)

These platforms will make you travel smart this Friendship Day

Traveling with friends is one of the best ways to gel and bond with each other as you spend so much time with each...

4 Aug 2018 11:09 AM IST

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote address at F8, Facebooks developer conference in San Jose, Calif. (Photo: AP)

Keeping Zuckerberg safe now costs an extra USD 10 million a year

While Facebook has spent USD 24.7 million on Zuckerberg's protection since 2013.

4 Aug 2018 10:52 AM IST

Additional DGP Pallab Bhattacharya said that they have succeeded in identifying the Ulfa (I) rebel who was sending the extortion notices as WhatsApp message wa followed by a call which originated from Myanmar.

Goibibo now enables users to login via WhatsApp

Through Whatsapp, login authentication will help mobile web users to log in without needing to remember password.

4 Aug 2018 10:26 AM IST

Mr Gupta said that exports should be out rightly kept out of the purview of GST as paying the tax first and getting refund is cumbersome and is affecting exports.

US export to India increases as bilateral trade deficit drops:...

India's export to the US in goods increased by 13.11 pc from USD 23.6 billion in 2017 to USD 26.8 billion.

4 Aug 2018 10:13 AM IST

The general consensus amongst the buyers has been that the markets have bottomed out and capital values are now expected to move northward.

Residential realty sales rise 25 per cent: Study

Poor base helps Kolkata, Hyderabad record a big jump in percentage terms.

4 Aug 2018 1:02 AM IST