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Export houses can import gold; banks can give gold loans for jewellery mfg: RBI

Export houses can import gold; banks can…

Mumbai, May 22 (KNN) Easing gold import norms, the Reserve Bank has allowed select trading houses to import the commodity, said an RBI notification adding…
Retail inflation for agri, rural labourers increases in April

Retail inflation for agri, rural labourers increases…

New Delhi, May 22 (KNN) The All-India Consumer Price Index numbers for agricultural labourers and rural labourers for April has increased by 8.44 per…
BCSBI to publicly declare names of banks that fail to adhere to customer service

BCSBI to publicly declare names of banks…

Mumbai, May 21 (KNN) The autonomous body Banking Codes Standards Board of India (BCSBI) will put the bank's performance ratings on the basis of customer…
One more firm gets listed on BSE SME

One more firm gets listed on BSE…

Mumbai, May 21 (KNN) The Mumbai based GCM Capital Advisors Limited has been listed on the BSE SME platform today, taking the total count of the number of companies…
Rise in price slows down demand for ACs

Rise in price slows down demand for…

New Delhi, May 21 (KNN) Demand for residential and commercial air conditioners had dipped this summer by 10-20 per cent owing to rise in prices, said a study…
Salt industry to target production of 40 m tons by 2020

Salt industry to target production of 40…

New Delhi, May 21 (KNN)  Indian salt industry has made rapid strides during the last six decades.  From an import dependent nation at the time of…
The costs of developmental inaction

The costs of developmental inaction

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has set an agenda for the new government, pointing out how it can reinvent sustainable development for all.  To achieve tangible…
Anti-dumping duty continues on Chinese nylon tyre fabric

Anti-dumping duty continues on Chinese nylon tyre…

New Delhi, May 21 (KNN) The Finance Ministry has extended anti-dumping duty on China made nylon tyre cord fabric (NTCF) for one additional year, said a media…
SMEs raise 32% more in FY14 via IPOs

SMEs raise 32% more in FY14 via…

Mumbai, May 21 (KNN) The public issues garnered by small and medium enterprises on the SME platforms of BSE and NSE was 32.63 per cent more in the financial…
Low risk biz go for finance from markets, banks left with lending to risky infra, SMEs: Rajan

Low risk biz go for finance from…

New Delhi, May 21 (KNN)  Public sector banks are, if anything, in a worse position than private sector banks, which is why the second bargain is also…
Efficient measures can reduce energy consumption by 20-30% in MSME sector: TERI

Efficient measures can reduce energy consumption by…

New Delhi, May 21 (KNN)  The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has come up with an advisory which said that energy efficient measures can reduce energy…
Knitwear exporters seeks RBI intervention to limit rupee gain

Knitwear exporters seeks RBI intervention to limit…

Chennai, May 21 (KNN)  Tirupur Exporters' Association (TEA) has appealed to the Reserve Bank of India to intervene and contain rupee gain in the best…
Demographic shifts, competition, environment & tech to impact biz in future: Oxford Univ

Demographic shifts, competition, environment & tech to…

New Delhi, May 21 (KNN)  On the 10th anniversary of the Oxford Executive MBA programme, a survey conducted among the alumni said that demographic shifts,…
W Bengal to lift ban imposed on mutation & conversion of land at industrial parks

W Bengal to lift ban imposed on…

Kolkata, May 21 (KNN)  MSMEs in West Bengal can breathe a sigh of relief now that the state government is likely to lift the ban on mutation and conversion…
RBI simplifies documentation for NBFCs

RBI simplifies documentation for NBFCs

Mumbai, May 20 (KNN) The Reserve Bank of India has simplified the documentation for Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) as there will be a common application…
Closure of Odisha mines to hit small biz

Closure of Odisha mines to hit small…

Bhubaneswar, May 20 (KNN) The small and medium industries which use iron ore as their raw material are likely to face scarcity, after the closure of 26 iron…
India continues to lag behind in ease of doing business

India continues to lag behind in ease…

New Delhi, May 20 (KNN) India continues to lag behind in the World Bank’s ranking on the ease of ‘Doing Business’ for 2014, said a survey…
Odisha to rope in pvt sector for skill development programme

Odisha to rope in pvt sector for…

Bhubaneshwar, May 20 (KNN)  In an effort to generate employment in the state, the Odisha government is planning to impart training on market linked skill…
Minerals stay in dumps

Minerals stay in dumps

New Delhi, May 20 (KNN)  Clearly indicating the economic slowdown and causing in the process problems for the user industries, India's mineral production…
Trading on BSE SME comes to naught

Trading on BSE SME comes to naught

Mumbai, May 20 (KNN) The trading on BSE SME platform has come to naught for the past two days as is being shown on the website of the platform.

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