Finance Ministry
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Jul 24, 2023
New Delhi: The Department of Expenditure under the Finance Ministry has approved the release of additional funding for completing the pending works of Polavaram Irrigation Project (PIP) and said it...
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Jun 11, 2023
Hyderabad, June 11 (IANS) Telangana's outstanding public debts are set to touch Rs 3.57 lakh crore in 2023-24, a jump of about 11 per cent over the previous year while the overall debt burden,...
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Mar 09, 2023
The finance ministry announced that cryptocurrency transactions would now come under the ambit of money laundering provisions.
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Jan 22, 2023
Despite the measures taken by the Andhra Pradesh Government for the welfare and well-being of the employees, certain articles have been published in the Eenadu and other newspapers stating that there...
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Dec 31, 2022
The finance ministry has raised the interest rates on some small savings schemes for the January-March quarter, the second quarterly increase in a row.
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Aug 03, 2022
NEW DELHI: GST-registered businesses with an annual turnover of Rs 10 crore or more will have to generate e-invoices for B2B transactions from October 1, the finance ministry said.
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Jun 09, 2021
The Centre has released the 3rd monthly instalment of Post Devolution Revenue Deficit (PDRD) Grant of Rs.
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Dec 20, 2020
NEW DELHI: The Finance Ministry on Sunday said five states, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, have been permitted to borrow an additional Rs 16,728 Crore following completion of stipulated reforms...
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Apr 23, 2020
The Finance Ministry on Thursday has decided to put on hold increment in dearness allowance (DA) for 50 lakh central government employees and 61 lakh pensioners till July 2021
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May 02, 2019
GST collection scaled all-time high of over Rs 1.13 lakh crore in April, up from Rs 1.06 lakh crore in the previous month
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Apr 26, 2019
The Finance Ministry has approved 8.65 per cent rate of interest on Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) for 2018-19 as decided by retirement fund body EPFO,
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Dec 08, 2018
The Finance Ministry has extended the last date for filing annual GST return forms by three months until March 31, 2019.
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Oct 04, 2018
Indian Oil Firms Can Stagger $10-bn Overseas Borrowing: Finance Ministry
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Jun 22, 2018
It said the Panama Paper leaks involving 426 persons have been already investigated by the Income Tax Department and other member agencies of the MAG.
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Jun 20, 2018
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian today said he has not yet decided on the exact date of leaving the finance ministry, but it will be in a month or two
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Apr 01, 2018
The Electronic Way (E-Way) Bill introduced under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime rolled out across the country from Sunday
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Mar 06, 2018
Finance Ministry Asks Banks To Collect Passport Details Of Big Borrowers
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Feb 15, 2018
Concerned over fraud of over Rs 11,300 crore at Punjab National Bank (PNB), the finance ministry has asked all banks to send reports involving this case or other such incidents latest by the end of...
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Jan 07, 2018
Finance Ministry will come out with a standard operating procedure to handling anti-profiteering complaints. Relating to over- charging after GST roll out.
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Dec 14, 2017
Merchant discount rates (MDR) have increased from 0.25 percent of transaction value to 0.90 percent recently
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Feb 14, 2017
Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya on Tuesday said 8.65 per cent interest rate on EPF deposits for this fiscal will soon be ratified by the Finance Ministry .
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Dec 15, 2016
Old Rs 500 notes not to be accepted from Dec 15 midnight: Finance ministry
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Dec 14, 2016
After Thursday midnight, Rs 500 notes would no longer be allowed to be used for the list of exemptions the government had announced
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Oct 11, 2016
Gross NPAs Expected to be 8.5% by March 2017 from 7.8% in March 2016
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Oct 01, 2016
Arundhati Bhattacharya’s tenure was to end on October 6
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Sep 27, 2016
15 out of 74 PSUs Listed By Neti Aayog to be Closed Down
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Aug 16, 2016
Moving to economy of digital currency
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Jun 24, 2016
Brexit:
Finance Ministry, RBI assure of liquidity