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Cabinet approves Union Budget

Cabinet approves Union Budget

New Delhi, Feb 29 (KNN) All eyes are set on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today as he will present his third General Budget today.

Experts…

Business customers’ needs are evolving like the retail customers: Vodafone

Business customers’ needs are evolving like the…

Gurgaon, Feb 27 (KNN) Few days back Vodafone had launched its 4G services for Delhi-NCR. High speed and good connectivity are always essential parts for…

Odisha to rely on Digital Infra for economic upliftment

Odisha to rely on Digital Infra for…

New Delhi, Feb 27 (KNN) With a vision to cover the entire state digitally, Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik recently stated that digital competence…

FM would be looking at requirements of MSMEs: R. Koteeswaran, CEO, IOB

FM would be looking at requirements of…

New Delhi Feb 27 (KNN) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is ready to present his second full-fledged budget on Monday. People from across the sectors…

Voice of MSMES – Expectations from Union Budget 2016-17

Voice of MSMES – Expectations from Union…

New Delhi, Feb 27 (KNN) As the Union Budget would be presented in less than two days now, people from across sectors including businessmen, common man,…

Banks to go on strike on Monday

Banks to go on strike on Monday

New Delhi, Feb 27 (KNN) The All India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC) has called a nationwide Bank strike on Monday – February 29 -  the…

SME should be judged in terms of capabilities rather that their turnover: MD, Alphamers

SME should be judged in terms of…

New Delhi Feb 27 (KNN) Growing progressively in the field of innovation, Alphamers hopes that MSMEs should be rather judged by their capabilities rather…

12 Clusters to develop in North- East States : MSME Minister

12 Clusters to develop in North- East…

Dimapur, Feb 27 (KNN) Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Kalraj Mishra, said that in the first phase 67 of 71 clusters would…

Low earners should be offered the choice of contribution to the EPF – Economic Survey

Low earners should be offered the choice…

New Delhi, Feb 27 (KNN) Suggesting a fresh wave of labour market reform, the Economic Survey 2016, the most exhaustive study of the  Indian economy,…

Budget has increased taxes by 14%, complicated ease of doing biz, says MP MSMEs

Budget has increased taxes by 14%, complicated…

Bhopal, Feb 27 (KNN) The Madhya Pradesh State Government presented its budget for the year 2016-17. The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) looked…

GST to affect around 2.5 million excise and service tax payers: Economic Survey

GST to affect around 2.5 million excise…

New Delhi, Feb 26 (KNN) The much awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been termed as a reforms measure by Economic Survey which is perhaps unprecedented…

FTA leads more imports than exports: Economic Survey

FTA leads more imports than exports: Economic…

New Delhi, Feb 26 (KNN) India's free trade agreement (FTA) has been doubled to 42 after the year 2000. Increased trade has been more on the import than…

Bengal marches ahead with glory in MSME sector, says WB Govt

Bengal marches ahead with glory in MSME…

Kolkata, Feb 26 (KNN) West Bengal Government today said that the MSME (medium, small and micro enterprises) is one of the sectors in the state which has…

Noida entrepreneurs for raising excise limit in Budget

Noida entrepreneurs for raising excise limit in…

Noida Feb 26 (KNN) The Noida MSMEs have urged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to raise the excise limit upto Rs 5 crore keeping in mind the high cost of production…

Bibek Debroy stresses on shift of commercial accounting by Railways

Bibek Debroy stresses on shift of commercial…

Ideally, freight rates should have been adjusted downwards, says Dr. Debroy

New Delhi, Feb 26 (KNN)
Dr.…

Economic Survey 2016 indicates trillion rupee re- capitalisation of banks

Economic Survey 2016 indicates trillion rupee re-…

New Delhi, Feb 26 (KNN) The Economic Survey, placed in the Parliament on Friday, cautions that the burgeoning NPAs of Public Sector Banks (PSB)s is one…

There should be separate tariff for micro, small scale industries: Kassia

There should be separate tariff for micro,…

Bengaluru, Feb 26 (KNN) There should be a separate electricity tariff for micro and small scale industries for consumption of 40HP and below or 2000 units,…

Labour force participation rate higher in rural areas, significantly lower for females: Economic Survey

Labour force participation rate higher in rural…

New Delhi, Feb 26 (KNN) The Economic Survey (2015-16) states that the proportion of economically active population (15-59 years) has increased from 57.7…

Indian economy needs to create good, safe, productive & well-paying jobs: FM

Indian economy needs to create good, safe,…

New Delhi, Feb 26 (KNN) To meet the growing aspirations of those entering the labour force, India's economy needs to create enough "good jobs"-…

Increasing levels of gross NPAs have reduced the banking sector's capacity to lend: Economic Survey

Increasing levels of gross NPAs have reduced…

New Delhi, Feb 26 (KNN) Increasing levels of gross Non-Performing Assets (NPA) have reduced the banking sector's capacity to lend, said the Economic…