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Japan's creation of a regulatory system is in sharp contrast to clampdowns on the trade by policymakers in countries such as South Korea, China and India.

The Paris-based International Energy Agency raised its forecast for oil demand growth in 2018 to 1.4 million barrels per day, from a previous projection of 1.3 million bpd.

The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has already sold exchange-traded funds (ETF) worth Rs 2,886 crore earlier this month to bridge the gap to maintain 8.65 per cent for this fiscal, they said.

Japan's Nikkei 225 jumped 1.0 percent to 21,595.81 and South Korea's Kospi rose 1.5 percent to 2,420.05. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index surged 2.2 percent to 30,108.75 and the Shanghai Composite Index advanced 1.8 percent to 3,212.01.

According to a report by New World Wealth, the economic hub of India is expected to be the fastest growing city (in terms of wealth growth over the next 10 years).

Fortis Healthcare was issued notices by the stock exchanges on Friday following a media report claiming that the company's promoters, the Singh bothers, took at least USD 78 million out of the publicly-traded hospital company they control without board ap...

Sources said ONGC would get up to a 10-percent stake, valuing the deal at $600 million.

In their resignation letter, the billionaire brothers cited a Delhi High Court verdict last week that upheld a 2016 order by a Singapore tribunal asking the brothers to pay damages worth 25.63 billion rupees ($398.34 million) to Japan's Daiichi Sankyo Co...

Participating in a discussion on Budget 2018-19, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) chairman Bibek Debroy on Wednesday said it was possible to scrap income tax and other direct taxes and replace them with indirect taxes but indirect...

Europe's main bourses started down as much as 3 percent, leaving investors with little option but to seek the traditional refuges of gold, the Japanese yen [FRX/] and one of the initial triggers for the selloff - benchmark government bonds. [GVD/EUR]

The state government introduce a single window system under which all types of licenses, certificates and no objection certificates (NOC) will be issued under one roof, for starting a business in the state, Sushil Modi said.

In its new avatar as "one of the largest healthcare programmes in the world" per Jaitley, the scheme will now provide Rs 5 lakh per family and aims to cover around 10 crore families or 50 crore people.

The central government has periodically increased the Income Tax slabs from Rs 22,000 in 1990-91 to Rs 2.5 lakh in 2014-15.

There is an expectation that common man may get some relief in income tax by way of a raise in the exemption limit.

The denial came at the same venue where Capa has named four domestic carriers including Spicejet as possible bidders for the debt-laden national carrier. Others suitors, according Capa, are the Tatas-run Vistara, Jet Airways, and IndiGo.

In an interview to News18, Union Civil Aviation Minister Gajapathi Raju talks in detail about the major disinvestment process, disclosing that an international player has expressed interest in buying out the national carrier’s foreign operations.