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The situation on linking of bank accounts to the biometric identifier is better, with 70 percent of estimated over 100 crore accounts already been seeded, UIDAI CEO Aja Bhushan Pandey said in New Delhi.

For 'nil' GSTR 3B returns, one-click filing has been introduced as no tile will be shown to such taxpayers.

Even former RBI governor C Rangarajan took a similar line, saying the alternative is to offer farmers a longer window to pay off.

The unanticipated shortages in one country's power grid can be readily solved by imports from a neighbouring grid, said a blog written by Priyantha Wijayatunga, ADB Director (Energy Division) for South Asia Regional Department.

“Their view of the economy doesn’t seem to be correct... (By keeping rates high) they have imposed a high output sacrifice,” said Ashima Goyal, a member of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.

India's healthcare market may see threefold rise as its size in value terms is likely to reach $372 billion by 2022 from the level of $110 bn as of 2016, thereby clocking a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22 per cent, said ASSOCHAM release.

Authorities have come across suspicious transactions involving huge amounts of money by some of the deregistered companies.

Infosys on Saturday appointed Parekh as its CEO and Managing Director, concluding the 3-month high-profile executive search at the country's second largest IT firm.

Wipro, India's third largest software services firm, on Friday said it will contest the lawsuit filed by National Grid US seeking damages of over USD 140 million for a project that began in 2009.

The 30-share index was trading lower by 68.30 points or 0.21 per cent at 33,081.05 at 1130hrs. The broader Nifty was down 14.80 points or 0.14 per cent at 10,211.75 with 28 of its constituents trading in the negative.

The benchmark Sensex rose 67.90 points, or 0.20 per cent, to 33,686.49 in early trade.

Observing that the government has not waived any loans of big NPA defaulters, Arun Jaitley regretted that over the last few days, a rumour is being propagated about "waiver of loans of capitalists by banks".

Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Subramanian said the GST regime, rolled out from July 1, will stabilise in the next six to nine months and become a “model” for other countries

The country will release its gross domestic product data for the quarter on November 30.

Designed for a six month duration, IKEA Hej HOME will familiarise customers with IKEA home furnishing solutions and offer a first-hand experience of an IKEA store.

It can be recalled that for the first time in almost 14 years, over the past weekend, Moody's had upgraded the country's sovereign ratings to Baa2 with a stable outlook. The last rating revision was in 2004.