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The weakness in the US dollar against other currencies overseas, falling crude oil prices and fresh foreign fund inflows pushed the rupee higher.

The loss-making airline has already started using food items stocked from India during its onward journey to Stockholm, Copenhagen, Birmingham and Madrid, and use them when returning.

Banking issues, like caution listing of exporters, third party/ third country exports and list of items to be traded with Iran, were also discussed.

This system has been started on flights operating to the US, Europe, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong. It hasn't begun on flights being operated to the Gulf region.

According to the World Bank's report, global economic growth is projected to soften from a downwardly revised 3 per cent in 2018 to 2.9 per cent in 2019 amid rising downside risks to the outlook.

The NPA of the public sector bank increased in the last three fiscals, with the bad loans soaring to Rs 3,851 crore in 2017-2018, according to the details obtained under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005.

A union worker alleged that the proposed Trade Union (Amendment) Bill 2018 as cleared by the Cabinet is designed to impose conditions of slavery on the working people and totally abrogate trade union rights.

Nirav Modi feared for his safety given the violent threats made against him 'as illustrated by the burning of his effigies', his lawyer replied to Enforcement Directorate.

The Syndicate bank said it would "raise equity share capital up to Rs 500 crore by creating, granting offer, issuing and allotting up to 30,00,00,000 new equity shares of face value of Rs 10 each to the eligible employees of the bank."

The merger will be effective from April 1.

The 30-share BSE Sensex closed at 36,254.57, rising 186.24 points or 0.52 per cent. Similarly, the NSE Nifty ended at 10,910.10, gaining 47.55 points or 0.44 per cent.

In a report tabled in Parliament last week, the panel noted that despite mechanisms put in place, the Civil Aviation Ministry's role in containing the discourteous, rude, arrogant and aggressive behaviour of airlines staff with passengers is far from sati...

The commerce and industry ministry also prohibited e-commerce companies like Flipkart and Amazon, from entering into an agreement for exclusive sale of products.

The council reduced tax rates on goods and services including movie tickets, TV and monitor screens and power banks, and exempted frozen and preserved vegetables from the levy.

Das, who spearheaded the post-demonetisation normalisation of the economy, was named the new RBI governor on December 11, a day after incumbent Urjit Patel quit the post.

At present, GST is not be levied on buyers of real estate properties for which completion certificate is issued at the time of sale.