Planting of crops in the current rabi season is at full throttle, with the acreage increasing 27% since last week and being 9% more compared with this time a year earlier, data from the agriculture ministry showed. The figures suggest that scrapping of highdenomination currency notes hasn’t affected sowing as some had feared..........
See full articleThe BSE stock exchange proposes to launch commodity derivatives trades, including in options, in non-agricultural commodities at its international bourse coming up at Ahmedabad-based GIFT City.......
See full articleIn the finely balanced but lucrative economy of vegetable and fruit trade, demonetisation has had a bizarre effect. In distant rural areas, local vegetable prices — both wholesale and retail — have crashed as the oxygen of currency has been suddenly sucked out. Since the whole economy depended on cash, from transport to mandis to purchase prices, this is unsurprising.........
See full articleSajjan Jindal-led JSW Infrastructure is looking to raise about Rs 1,000 crore by offloading 10 per cent of shares to private equity or strategic partners, its CEO Capt BVJK Sharma told ET, as it sets its sight on public listing in two years..........
See full articleManufacturing sector growth in India got hampered in November as rupee demonetisation weighed on new work flows, buying activity and production, while subdued inflationary pressure may prompt Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to reduce key policy rate, a monthly survey said on Thursday...........
See full articleIndia's economy probably picked up steam in the July-September quarter on strong demand, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise currency crackdown this month will likely dent growth in coming months, a Reuters poll found.........
See full articleAs anyone who has stood in a queue outside an ATM machine will testify, the Modi government's audacious gamble with note-bandi or note-badli hasn’t been personally easy for most people. Whether it was thought through enough, whether the gains will outweigh the costs or whether it was an arbitrary and "morally callous" decision as the scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta puts it, is for all...... practical purposes a moot point now.
See full articleThe Nifty50 index continued to trade above 8150 level in the late morning trade on account buying in frontline bluechip counters. In the Nifty pack, Idea CellularBSE 4.29 %, Eicher MotorsBSE 4.37 %, Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra and GAILBSE 2.50 % were up between 2.30 per cent and 5 per cent. On the other hand, Sun PharmaBSE -0.53 %, BPCL, HULBSE -0.64 %, LupinBSE 0.72 % and............. Hindalco were down between 0.49 per cent and 1.15 per cent........
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