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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her speech that agricultural cess on a few items won't affect consumers.

Japan is expected to extend a state of emergency on Tuesday to fight the spread of COVID19 for Tokyo and other areas, three sources with knowledge of the legal procedures said on Monday.

Sitharaman's team will navigate often competing, multiple demands from various sectors, citizens, and stakeholders to provide a probable balm in these Covid times.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp said on Sunday that its legal complaint against the U.S. Department of Defense and the Treasury Department was to protect the company's interests, in a notice on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Dubai's house prices are expected to fall at a slower pace this year and next than previously thought as hopes for a successful vaccine rollout and an economic recovery boost confidence in the sector, a Reuters poll showed.

Theyve endured a financial crisis. Two deep recessions. Mounds of student debt. Stagnant pay. Costly health care. Dim job prospects.

Toys R Us is retrenching once again.

According to the data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), the fiscal deficit at the end of December in the previous financial year was 132.4 per cent of the Budget Estimate (BE) of 2019-20.

Barring coal and electricity, all sectors recorded negative growth in December 2020. During April-December 2020-21, the sectors' output dropped by 10.1 per cent against a growth rate of 0.6 per cent in the same period of the previous year.

Washington (AP) Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89 per cent effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work though not quite as well against new mutated strains of the virus circulating...

Cybercriminals shifted away from stealing individual consumers' information in 2020 to focus on bigger, more profitable attacks on businesses, according to a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center.

The CES data is used to calculate poverty and inflation levels, as well as to track economic progress in rural and urban India.

Of this, personal income tax refunds of Rs 62,231 crore have been issued to over 1.71 crore taxpayers and corporate tax refunds of Rs 1.19 lakh crore have been issued in 2.12 lakh cases.

Schlumberger NV's fourthquarter revenue and adjusted profit grew compared to the previous quarter, aided by cost cuts and a recovery in demand for oilfield services and equipment after a pandemicdriven slump in drilling.

Singapore Exchange Ltd posted a 12% increase in net profit for the six months ending December, with its equities business supported by its expanded Asian derivatives products and higher trading activity.

Facebook and its photo and video-sharing social networking service, Instagram, suspended Trump after his supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6 that left five people dead, and led to his second impeachment.