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  • Integrity Education, Delhi
  • 15, Apr 2021
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Oil prices rise more than 1.5 per cent after industry data shows U.S. inventories decline more than expected

Oil prices today rose more than one and half per cent after industry data showed U.S. inventories declined more than expected and OPEC raised its outlook for oil demand. Gains were capped by worries about the Coronavirus and by rising supplies. Crude prices rose on strong Chinese impo

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  • Integrity Education, Delhi
  • 15, Apr 2021
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Most of Asian stocks climb following overnight gains in US stocks

Most of Asian stocks today climbed following overnight gains in the US stocks. However, investors awaited earning reports from companies for further cues. Hong Kong's Hang Seng surged 1.4 per cent, China’s Shanghai Composite index gained 0.6 per cent and South Korea&r

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  • Integrity Education, Delhi
  • 14, Apr 2021
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FM N Sitharaman, President World Bank Group David Malpass meet through virtual mode

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and President World Bank Group David Malpass met through virtual mode today. Ms Sitharaman and Mr Malpass discussed various issues including Covid Vaccination, economic recovery, World Bank Group lending envelope for India and India’s strategy

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  • Integrity Education, Delhi
  • 10, Apr 2021
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Nirmala Sitharaman participates in 103rd Meeting of World Bank Development Committee Plenary

Union Minister for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman participated in the 103rd Meeting of the Development Committee Plenary of World Bank through video conferencing. The items on the agenda included World Bank Group (WBG) and International Monetary Fund Support for Debt Relief Under the Comm

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  • Integrity Education, Delhi
  • 09, Apr 2021
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FM Nirmala Sitharaman attends Plenary Meeting of IMF & Financial Committee of IMF

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today attended the Plenary Meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee of the International Monetary Fund, IMF through video conferencing. The meeting was attended by Governors or Alternate Governors representing 190 member

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  • Integrity Education, Delhi
  • 08, Apr 2021
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RBI decides to publish Financial Inclusion Index

The Reserve Bank of India has decided to publish the Financial Inclusion Index. To begin with, The FI index will be published annually in July for the previous financial year. RBI’s Governor Shaktikanta Das said, Financial Inclusion has been a thrust area for the Government, RBI

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  • Integrity Education, Delhi
  • 05, Apr 2021
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Govt allows further operational flexibility in filing of GST returns

Government has allowed further flexibility to tax filers operating under the Quarterly Return Filing and Monthly Payment of Taxes (QRMP) scheme of GST. These tax filers will now be permitted to declare invoices pertaining to movement of goods and services in their quarterly return for

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  • Integrity Education, Delhi
  • 01, Apr 2021
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World Bank says India’s GDP to grow from 7.5 to 12.5 per cent during current fiscal

World Bank has raised Indian GDP growth prediction for 2021-22 fiscal to 10.1 percent from 5.4 percent projected in January. The international bank said, given the significant uncertainty amid Covid-19 effects on the economy, the real India GDP growth could be in the range from 7.5 pe

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  • Integrity Education, Delhi
  • 01, Apr 2021
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Oil prices fall on concerns about market’s recovery after OPEC and its allies lower its 2021 demand growth forecast

Oil prices today fell on concerns about the market’s recovery after OPEC and its allies lowered its 2021 demand growth forecast, although strong Chinese factory activities lent some support. In intra-day trade, the Brent was trading around USD 63.80 per barrel while WTI c

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  • Integrity Education, Delhi
  • 30, Mar 2021
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Govt receives multiple EoI for privatisation of Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd

Government has received multiple expressions of interest for privatisation of Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL). In a tweet, Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management, Tuhin Kanta Pandey said the transaction moves ahead to the second stage, on

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