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Both private sector and public sector banks have been cutting interest rates on savings account across the country. The rate-cutting spree started with India's largest bank State Bank of India slashing its interest rate on savings account. Soon, top banks of the country followed suit.
Two days after the demonetisation on November 8 last year, the new 2,000-rupee note hit the market in good numbers but the new 500-rupee note took a long time in coming, ...
Two studies published by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have said that demonetisation has led to 'financialisation' of savings with households choosing mutual ...
State Bank of India cut deposit rates on the majority of its savings accounts to a six-year low, just two days ahead of a policy meeting in which the central bank is expe...
31, Jul 2017, by : FnF Correspondent
Telecom giant Vodafone India has rolled out a new offer targeting students with unlimited calls and 1GB 3G/4G data for 84 days. The move comes fresh on the heels of Reliance Jio launching its latest market disruption weapon, the JioPhone. Read News
25, Jul 2017, by : FnF Desk
Private sector lender Axis Bank is expected to report a 19.9 percent degrowth in first quarter profit at Rs 1,245.3 crore year-on-year, according to average of estimates of analysts polled by CNBCRead News
09, Jul 2017, by : FnF Desk
Gold prices on Saturday followed the global trend by sliding Rs250 to Rs28,900 per 10 grams as a strong dollar dented the precious metal's demand amid a dwindling interest from local jewellers. Gold as a safe haven instrument lost its appeal globally after investors and speculators switched positions in favour of the US currency.Read News
29, Jun 2017, by : FnF Desk
Forty-three of the 55 McDonald's outlets in Delhi are shutting down, media reports said on Thursday, blaming the tussle between the north Indian franchisee and the global food giant for the shock decision.Read News
11, Jun 2017, by : FnF Correspondent
State-owned fuel retailers IOC, BPCL and HPCL have put in place an automated system to implement daily revision in petrol and diesel prices from June 16 even as a section of petrol pump dealers threatened to go on strike against the move.Read News
30, May 2017, by : FnF Correspondent
Chemists across the country will shut shop today in protest against the "stringent" regulations on the sale of medicines. According to the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), their several representations opposing the regulations on the sale of medicines in the country.Read News
From the UK to Canada, China to India, around the world, yoga is big business. In 2016, Americans alone spent US$16 billion on yoga classes and products.
Put this down to connectivity. After Bangladesh, Odisha's mangoes are soon expected to find a market in Southeast Asia -- thanks to a new flight from Biju Patnaik In...
A good monsoon that led to record sowing and production of pulses - especially tur dal (pigeon pea) - has almost halved their wholesale and retail prices in 2017, a year ...
Moreover, the operator has promised to match the best data plans in the market at 20 percent lower rates. But telecom operators such as Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and BSNL ar...
21, Jan 2017, by : Prabhu Mallikarjunan
Sunil Kumar, a 31-year-old farmer in Tondala village, Kolar district, 85 km east of Bengaluru, lost Rs 300,000 in November when tomato prices crashed due to the demonetisation earlier that month and the excess supply of vegetables.Read News
14, Jan 2017, by : FnF Desk
At a time when the cyber vulnerability in the payment gateways of e-wallet companies are becoming visible as they witness a rise in usage and popularity, upgraded security is the only way to safeguard millions of first-time users.Read News
21, Dec 2016, by : Mukta Patil, IndiaSpend
Gangu Kundaikar is a small-framed, saree-clad woman who rises at 3 am every day, wraps a cloth around her waist so fish do not soil her saree, and takes a rented tempo to the Malim jetty in Panaji, North Goa, 8 km from her village, here in one of India's most prosperous and literate states.Read News
21, Dec 2016, by : FnF Correspondent
The Reserve Bank of India has issued a series of notifications on rules and regulations to implement the Narendra Modi government's decision to demonetise old Rs500, Rs1,000 notes on 8 November. Read News
18, Dec 2016, by : FnF Desk
Either the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is uncharacteristically cavalier with the demonetisation-related figures it has given out periodically since November 8 or, more worryingly, its number crunchers are getting their math mixed up.Read News
17, Dec 2016, by : Anuj Sharma
With nearly 250 million unique smartphone users in the country and the figure set to reach the 280 million-mark by the end of this year, the Indian smartphone industry -- that surpassed the US to become the world's second-largest market by users in 2016 -- is set to break new records. Read News
A market is any one of a variety of different systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby persons trade, and goods and services are exchanged, forming part of the economy. It is an arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to exchange things.Competition is essential in markets, and separates market from trade. Two persons may trade, but it takes at least three persons to have a market, so that there is competition on at least one of its two sides. Markets vary in size, range, geographic scale, location, types and variety of human communities, as well as the... Read News
by : Priti Prakash
Independence was a painful journey that got with it death, destruction, migration, division, sacrifi...
by : Satya Narayan Sahu
Every living and lively unit of family or the extended family be it father, mother, brother or siste...
by : Rajeshwar Singal
This may sound like a dilemma, but it is not far from truth. Conduct Rules are meant to govern condu...
by : Sunita Narain
The idea of secularism is this very idea of India which respects the equality of all. Of course, wit...
by : Ravi Kishore
Today every one is talking about judicial accountability i.e. how the whole system of judiciary is t...
by : Surya Mohan Dubey
Continuous deadly events happening every now and then prove that Indian Government has utterly faile...
