Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday raised questions on what he called changing goals of Goods and Services Tax regime. Chidambaram asked why GST was bei

Chidambaram slams Centre, questions 'changing GST goals'

Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday raised questions on what he called changing goals of Goods and Services Tax regime. Chidambaram asked why GST was being changed in line with Congress' policies after being dubbed as a stupid idea by the BJP. He asked why single GST rate and the Congress' 18 per cent GST cap suddenly became a 'declared goals' for the finance ministry. Continuing his attack, he also criticised the sudden action on Chief Economic Advisor's RNR report to fix the standard rate at 15% which was not accepted earlier.

Airlines are all set to pay more for fuel as jet fuel prices were raised by a steep 6.5%. This is the third increase in jet fuel prices since February, prices were

Airlines are all set to pay more for fuel as jet fuel prices were raised by a steep 6.5%.&nbsp;This is the third increase in jet fuel prices since February, prices were hiked by 3.6% last on Feb 16.&nbsp; This could translate to higher ticket prices ahead of the busy summer season.&nbsp;
The move comes on the back of a steep&nbsp;uptick&nbsp;in global oil prices. Crude oil prices have been very volatile ahead of the OPEC meet on March 5, where markets are anticipating some supply easing to be done.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

India’s largest pubic sector bank SBI has reduced home loan rate to 6.7 % and also is waving off processing fees. This offer is valid ti

&nbsp; India&rsquo;s largest&nbsp;pubic&nbsp;sector bank SBI has&nbsp;reduced home loan rate to 6.7 % and is also waving off processing fees. This offer is valid&nbsp;till March 31 as per a release from the bank.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; SBI Home loan interest rates are linked to CIBIL score and start from 6.70 percent for loans up to Rs. 75 lakh and 6.75 percent for loans above Rs. 75 lakhs, the bank said.&nbsp;
 Customers can also apply from the ease of their home via YONO App to get additional interest concession of 5 bps. On the eve of International Women&rsquo;s day, a special 5 bps concession is being made available to the women borrowers, the bank said.&nbsp;

Maruti Suzuki has seen domestic sales rise 11.8% YoY with a total of 1.52 lakh units sold in February. Utility vehicles Utility vehicles like

&nbsp; Maruti Suzuki has seen&nbsp;domestic sales rise&nbsp;11.8% YoY with a total of 1.52 lakh units sold in February. Utility vehicles like&nbsp;Ertiga, XL6 and Vitara&nbsp;Brezza&nbsp;have seen a&nbsp;strong sales&nbsp;in the month gone by leading the growth.&nbsp;
&nbsp; It is not just domestic&nbsp;growth ,&nbsp;Maruti Suzuki India has accomplished the landmark of exporting 20 lakh vehicle from India. In under 8 years Maruti Suzuki&rsquo;s exports have doubled from 10 lakh units to 20 lakh units.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Mukesh Ambani promoted Jio along with Reliance Retail has rolled out the ‘New JioPhone 2021’ offer which provides for a new phone along

Mukesh Ambani promoted&nbsp;Jio&nbsp;along with Reliance Retail has rolled out the &lsquo;New&nbsp;JioPhone&nbsp;2021&rsquo; offer which provides for a new phone along with three new plans. Under this scheme, new users&nbsp;will be provided a&nbsp;JioPhone&nbsp;device along with unlimited voice calls and data&nbsp;for one year at Rs1,499 and for two years at Rs1,999. Existing users can opt for&nbsp;the same unlimited service for one year at Rs749.&nbsp;This marks the return of the&nbsp;JioPhone, which it had&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;debut in 2017.&nbsp;
Analysts believe&nbsp;Jio&rsquo;s new&nbsp;JioPhone&nbsp;2021 offer is&nbsp;also&nbsp;targeted to upgrade 2G user&nbsp;base.&nbsp;Jio is now in second place at 33.6% market share in active subscribers compared to the just ahead Airtel at 33.7%. Jio has seen a loss of subscribers in the past month&nbsp;which has strengthened&nbsp;Sunil Mittal backed Bharti Airtel into the&nbsp;numero&nbsp;uno spot.

Monday blues as early as 10 am for India’s largest stock exchange NSE as HDFC Securities alerted investor of a technical error in the system. The brokerage

Monday blues as early as 10 am for India&rsquo;s largest stock exchange NSE as HDFC Securities alerted investor of a technical error in the system.&nbsp;
 The brokerage house tweeted&nbsp;&ldquo; we&nbsp;have blocked trading in NSE cash due to a technical glitch,&nbsp;All&nbsp;other segments are working fine&rdquo; India&rsquo;s largest broker&nbsp;Zerodha&nbsp;also had&nbsp;clients&nbsp;complain at the same time of glitches in placing orders.&nbsp;BSE was quick to&nbsp;respond&nbsp;as&nbsp;Ashish Chauhan, CEO of BSE tweeted: "All market segments are working normal today.
 NSE however responded&nbsp;within&nbsp;half hour reassuring traders that&nbsp;&ldquo; All&nbsp;operations on the NSE platform were running smoothly and normal&rdquo;&nbsp;

LPG cylinder prices have seen a price hike again, this is the second time in just 4 days. LPG cylinder prices increased by Rs 25 effective immediately.

LPG cylinder prices have seen a price hike again, this is the second time in just 4 days.&nbsp;LPG cylinder prices increased by Rs 25 effective immediately.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; LPG prices have been raised 4 times in that last 4 weeks. Infact&nbsp;prices have soared to Rs 819/cyclinder&nbsp;in Delhi vs Rs&nbsp;Rs&nbsp;594/cylinder on Dec 1.&nbsp;The increase is applicable across all categories including&nbsp;subsidised&nbsp;and non-subsidised&nbsp;users.&nbsp;

AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company has sold its 7.7% stake in Moderna Inc for more than $1 billion after the US biotechnology company's shares soared on the back of its

British&ndash;Swedish&nbsp;pharma&nbsp;giant&nbsp;AstraZeneca&nbsp;has sold its 7.7% stake in drugmaker&nbsp;Moderna Inc for more than $1 billion after the US biotechnology company's shares soared on the back of its coronavirus vaccine breakthrough, The Times reported. However, it isn't clear over what period AstraZeneca sold its holding, the report added. The news of the stake sale comes just after Johnson &amp; Johnson&rsquo;s single-shot coronavirus vaccine received approval as the third vaccine for emergency use in the US.

The push to include petrol and petroleum products under the GST just got stronger. Chief Economic Advisor K.V. Subramanian has also voiced the backing

The push to include petrol and petroleum products under the GST&nbsp;just got stronger.&nbsp;
Chief Economic Advisor K.V. Subramanian has also voiced&nbsp; the backing to bring petroleum products under the ambit of the Goods and Services Tax.
This comes as the FM and Oil Minister both while reacting the rising duties and taxes on fuel said that better coordination&nbsp;is needed between state and centre on the issue and maybe inclusion into GST&nbsp;is a viable option.&nbsp;
The GST&nbsp;council is set to meet this month.
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The deadline to file GST returns for FY'20 has been extended to March 31 by the govt. This is the second extension by the govt, moving the calendar from Dec 2020 t

The deadline to file&nbsp;GST returns for FY'20 has been extended to March 31 by the govt. This is the second extension by the govt, moving the calendar from Dec 2020 to end of February and now to March end.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Members of the industry&nbsp;welcomed this move as&nbsp;many were struggling to meet this statutory deadline and had represented to the government for an extension.
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The Govt has again extended the deadline for filing declaration and making payments under ‘Vivad Se Vishwas’ scheme . The deadline for declaration has been

The Govt has extended the deadline for filing declaration and making payments under &lsquo;Vivad Se Vishwas&rsquo; scheme . The deadline for declaration has been pushed March 31, 2021, and the due date for payment without additional amount under the scheme has been&nbsp;extended to 30th April, 2021.
The Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Act, 2020 was implemented in March 2020 and 1.2 lakh cases amounting to&nbsp;Rs 97,000 cr&nbsp;have so far opted for the scheme.

Aviation regulator DGCA has extended the suspension of international commercial flights to and from India till March 31. In a circular posted the regulator also states

Aviation regulator DGCA has extended the suspension of international commercial flights to and from India till March 31.
In a circular posted the regulator also states that scheduled International flights may be allowed to fly in the given period but the decision will be made on a case to case basis. The allowance pertains to the 27 countries where India has bilateral air bubble agreements.
International commercial passenger flights were suspended on March 23, 2020 due to the pandemic.&nbsp;
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Bears took control the equity markets across the globe on the last day of trade. After sparking hope and starting trade positively Wall Street saw volatile moves pushin

Bears took control of the equity markets across the globe on the last day of trade for the week. After sparking hope and starting trade positively Wall Street saw volatile moves pushing the 30 stock Dow Jones end at the day low shedding 460 points.&nbsp;
All three major averages posted weekly losses on Wall Street, the second weekly downtick for the same. The jitters were sparked again as personal expenditure reading was higher&nbsp;than anticipated ,raising inflationary concerns.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 But equities were not the only this suffering. Crypto currency also had a tough week as Bitcoin slid&nbsp;further 5% in Friday&rsquo;s trade extending its losses to 20% for the week. Bitcoin has recorded&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;worst weekly decline in&nbsp;atleast&nbsp;a year.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Even&nbsp;commodities&nbsp;that have been the shining spot for traders saw profit booking.&nbsp;A gauge tracking&nbsp;23 commodities&nbsp;dropped by the most since April 2020 as&nbsp;the dollar strengthened making the commodity play less attractive&nbsp; &nbsp;

Mukesh Ambani has become Asia’s wealthiest person again after Zhong Shanshan’s bottled-water company tanked a record 20% this week. The Bloomberg Billionair

Mukesh Ambani has become Asia&rsquo;s wealthiest person again after Zhong Shanshan&rsquo;s bottled-water company tanked a record 20% this week. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index said, RIL chairman's net worth is $80 billion and the Chinese tycoon is now worth $76.6 billion, down more than $22 billion from a peak just last week, In September, Shanshan had become Asia&rsquo;s richest person, beating Chinese tech titans like Jack Ma. His company had raised nearly $1.1 billion in its initial public offering. Zhong is also the chairman of Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Co. Ltd., a vaccine manufacturer which surged as much as 3,757% in December. The firm is now developing a Covid-19 vaccine nasal spray in collaboration with a prominent Chinese university.

The National Stock Exchange has released yet another statement explaining events that led to the longest ever shut down of the exchange on Wednesday but this communicat

The National Stock Exchange has released yet another statement explaining events that led to the longest ever shut down of the exchange on Wednesday but this communication still alludes to give an answer to why the&nbsp;backup site was not made active.&nbsp;&nbsp;
After the trading halt rival bourse BSE was&nbsp;accused NSE of&nbsp;not taking a decision in the benefit of the&nbsp;brokers,&nbsp;BSE was quoted to say&nbsp; &ldquo;It was anti-competitive and unethical on the part of NSE Clearing Ltd (NCL) to stop its operations to preserve NSE&rsquo;s monopoly and hold the market to ransom&rdquo;.&nbsp;
NSE&nbsp;has clarified again that even though it was considered to migrate trade to the disaster recovery site it was internally decided to work&nbsp;towards&nbsp;resolving the issues on the primary site and halt trading.&nbsp;NSE is yet to submit a detailed report to&nbsp;SEBI post the technical analysis of the glitch.

Strong festive sales boosted growth numbers in the final quarter of 2020 as India exited recession after two quarters of growth contraction. GDP for the October-Decembe

Strong festive sales boosted growth numbers in the final quarter of 2020 as India exited recession after two quarters of growth contraction. GDP for the October-December period is now pegged at 0.4% , the first expansion after the pandemic hit.&nbsp;India is now one of the few economies that saw growth expand in the quarter gone by.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Though technically the recession may be over but it is not all good news the govt has&nbsp;revised&nbsp;&nbsp;the&nbsp;full year GDP to reflect a contraction of 8% vs &ndash;7.7% earlier. Some of the&nbsp;internal indicators&nbsp;are also not very encouraging&nbsp;for example spending from the govt&nbsp;as well private spending have shown a contraction on a&nbsp;year on year&nbsp;basis.&nbsp;&nbsp;
It is&nbsp;definitely&nbsp;too&nbsp;early to celebrate the recovery as International ratings agency Moody&rsquo;s warns that the risk to growth forecast for India is tilted to the downside. Even JPMorgan&nbsp;has raised an alarm that&nbsp;&nbsp;a&nbsp;consumer credit crisis could derail India&rsquo;s economic recovery . For the weekend however economy watchers can enjoy the headline that India has exited recession.&nbsp;

After contracting for two quarters in a row, the Indian economy grew by 0.4% in the October-December quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic, data from the Ministry of St

After contracting for two quarters in a row, the Indian economy grew by 0.4% in the October-December quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic, data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Friday showed.
The GDP had expanded by 3.3% in the corresponding period of 2019-20, according to data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO).
In its second advance estimates of national accounts, the NSO has projected an 8% contraction in 2020-21. In its first advance estimates released in January, it had projected a contraction of 7.7% for the current fiscal as against a growth of 4% cent in 2019-20.
The economy had shrunk by an unprecedented 24.4% in the first quarter this fiscal following the coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns. In the second quarter, the GDP declined 7.3% due to a perk up in economic activities.

It was a sea of red for the markets led by global cues and surging bond yields. Sensex and Nifty ended 4% Friday as the weakness wiped out the week

It was a sea of red for the markets led by global cues and surging bond yields.&nbsp;Sensex and Nifty ended 4%&nbsp;Friday as the weakness&nbsp;wiped out the weekly gains.&nbsp;Sensex lost the 50,000 mark at close while Nifty managed to hold onto the 14500 mark.&nbsp;All 50 stocks in the Nifty ended in the red and financials were the main drag.&nbsp;
Rising bond yields were the culprit that sent jitters across the globe.&nbsp;Bond yields in the US have now surged back to the pre-pandemic levels and even though it indicates higher growth it signals possible inflation and cost of money rising. The Indian bond markets are also signaling the same adding to the nervousness.&nbsp;&nbsp;
It was not just the equity markets rupee hit Rs 73.5/$ in intraday trade, the lowest level in over two months. For the week the currency is lower by 1%, which would mark its biggest weekly fall in 10 months.&nbsp;

Good news for startups and FinTechs as the Prime Minister has made a big pitch for larger credit flows to head their way. Speaking at a webinar PM Modi highli

Good news for startups and&nbsp;FinTechs&nbsp;as the Prime Minister has made a big pitch for larger credit flows to head their way. Speaking at a webinar PM Modi highlighted that&nbsp;financial products will have to be tailor-made for fintech and startups.&nbsp;He expects&nbsp;India's fintech market to grow to Rs 6 lakh cr.
Addressing a webinar&nbsp;on&nbsp;the implementation of Budget in the Financial Services sector&nbsp;the Prime Minister assured the audience that the government is committed to strengthening the banking sector and the focus remains on&nbsp;taking steps to make the financial services sector vibrant, proactive and strong. PM&nbsp;Modi said that investors, depositor&rsquo;s trust and transparency is the top priority of his government.&nbsp;

Rising yields is giving traders an unpleasant déjà vu of the 2013 ‘taper tantrum’ where markets sold off aggressively as the money market

Rising yields is giving traders an unpleasant&nbsp;d&eacute;j&agrave; vu of the 2013 &lsquo;taper tantrum&rsquo; where markets sold off aggressively as the money markets signaled the end of cheap money.&nbsp;Even though the surge is not as dramatic as 8 years ago it is enough to send equities into a tizzy.&nbsp;&nbsp; So why&nbsp;do stock markets get rattled by rising bond yields.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 Firstly,&nbsp;Rise in yields indicate the money markets betting on the possibility of higher rates by the central bank&nbsp;as inflation bets rise. In the US its mostly due to improving economic data and traders worried the fed will shift low rates stance earlier than anticipated.&nbsp;Prices in India have been subdued so far but with sharp rises in fuel prices the RBI has also sounded off the concern on inflationary pressure.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Secondly,&nbsp;Investors also reassess portfolio allocations are yields&nbsp;rise,&nbsp;betting more on cheaper safer bond markets as returns become more attractive.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Finally, the cost&nbsp;of capital&nbsp;also rises significantly with rising yields and the debt pressure on the corporate sector enlarges in turn adding pressure on to the stock.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Domestic flight tickets may get cheaper for those who opt to travel with no baggage or only with cabin baggage within the permissible weight limit. Flight operators are

Domestic flight tickets may get cheaper for those who opt to travel with no baggage or only with cabin baggage within the permissible weight limit. Flight operators are allowed to give concessions in ticket prices to passengers who carry no baggage or only cabin baggage, aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has said in a circular. A passenger can carry up to 7 kilograms of cabin baggage and 15 kilograms of check-in baggage. Any additional weight is chargeable.

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