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Inflation: A nation forced to go on distress diet
The Times Of India
After nearly 15 straight months of double-digit food inflation, the government announced on Thursday that food inflation had dipped to 9.67% for the week that ended on July 17. That's small consolation for most Indians, particularly the poor, who have seen a relentless assault on their food budgets ...
India forecasts heavy rains over rice, cane areas
The Times Of India
NEW DELHI: The weather office on Friday forecast heavy monsoon rains over top grain and cane areas, raising prospects of good rice and sugar output in the world's second-biggest producer of the two commodities. "Fairly widespread rain/thundershowers ...
Inflation: A nation forced to go on distress diet
The Times Of India
After nearly 15 straight months of double-digit food inflation, the government announced on Thursday that food inflation had dipped to 9.67% for the week that ended on July 17. That's small consolation for most Indians, particularly the poor, who hav...
Punjab announces VAT hike, then changes its mind
The Times Of India
CHANDIGARH: Barely an hour after it decided to hike value-added tax on petrol "up to 35 per cent" today, the Punjab government made an abrupt volte face and announced that the decision was being deferred. | "The Cabinet gave approval to amend Section...
Banks hike deposit rates, but lending rates may stay unchanged
The Times Of India
MUMBAI: HDFC Bank, Lakshmi Vilas Bank and Central Bank set off a round of deposit rate hikes to attract funds to meet accelerating investment and consumption, but lending rates may stay where they are, at least for now, as banks' high profitability p...
State Bank of Indore merger with SBI to begin by Aug 26
Indian Express
| The country's largest lender, State Bank of India, today said it will start the merger process of State Bank of Indore with itself from August 26. | The entire undertaking of State Bank of Indore shall be transfered to and vested in State Bank of I...
State Bank of Indore merger with SBI to begin by Aug 26
The Times Of India
MUMBAI: The country's largest lender, State Bank of India, today said it will start the merger process of State Bank of Indore with itself from August 26. | The entire undertaking of State Bank of Indore shall be transfered to and vested in State Ban...
Rice - Agriculture - Farming
WN / Rubielyn Bunag
Planting of basmati to increase in flood-hit areas of the Northwest
DNA India
| Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana will increase planting of basmati rice as floods have washed away the recently sown regular grades, farmers and trade officials said today. | Basma...
Packaging the plums professionally is going on, the plums are the first season fruits of kashmir loved and cherihed across the country.
WN / Imran Nissar
Kashmir farmers get bumper plum crop
Newstrack India
| Srinagar, July 19 (ANI): Good rains and moderate temperature have yielded a bumper plum crop for farmers in the Kashmir valley.   | Farmers are busy harvesting the fruit, wh...
Garlic - for sale in a shop in India
WN / Geeta
Vegetable prices likely to fall by August-end on fresh arrivals
The Times Of India
CHANDIGARH: Vegetable prices, which have touched an all-time high in recent weeks, are likely to fall in the next one month with new crops from Punjab and Haryana to be harvested i...
Over 11,700 tonnes of foodgrains damaged in FCI godowns: Pawar
The Times Of India
NEW DELHI: Over 11,700 tonnes of foodgrains worth Rs 6.86 crore were found "damaged" in government godowns, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar informed the Lok Sabha today. | The FCI (Food Corporation of India) has taken penal action against ...
Sensex rebounds, ends up 57 points
Indian Express
| The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex rose by over 57 points on buying in interest rate sensitive auto, realty and banking stocks as RBI steps matched with the street expectations. | The 30-share barometer closed 57.56 points higher at 18,077....
Sensex gains 76 points as RBI policy matches expectations
The Times Of India
MUMBAI: The BSE benchmark Sensex gained nearly 76 points today on fund-based buying in heavyweight stocks, particularly financial companies, after the RBI's quarterly credit policy matched with market expectations. | The 30-share Bombay Stock Exchang...
Sensex rebounds by 57pts as RBI policy matches expectations
The Times Of India
MUMBAI: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex on Tuesday rose by over 57 points on buying in interest rate sensitive auto, realty and banking stocks as RBI steps matched with the street expectations. | The 30-share barometer closed 57.56 points ...
Sensex gains 76 points as RBI policy matches expectations
Deccan Herald
Mumbai, July 27 (PTI): | The BSE benchmark Sensex gained nearly 76 points on Tuesday on fund-based buying in heavyweight stocks, particularly financial companies, after the RBI's quarterly credit policy matched with market expectations. | The 30-shar...
Economy
In this July 7, 2008 photo, an investor looks at a stock price board at a private securities' company in Shanghai, China. Chinese shares fell sharply Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, on heavy selling of airlines and other market heavyweights, as investors and analysts puzzled over why expectations of a rally linked to the Beijing Olympic games never materialized. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index sank 4.5 percent, or 122.81 points, to 2,605.16. The Shenzhen Composite Index of China's smaller, second market dropped 5.6 percent to 74
(photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko, FILE)
Asia nudges ahead
Asia Times
|      Jul 31, 2010 MARKET RAP | Asia nudges ahead | By R M Cutler | MONTREAL - Overall, Asia looks like having some rough going, at least for a while, although it seems to have established a support in the MSCI Asia Pacific Index chart a little underneath the 115 level. | The MSCI Asia Pacific Index was up only 1% on the week t...



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