Dharmakirti Joshi News
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Gold imports by India, the world’s largest consumer, are plunging as an increase in tax and restrictions on financing shipments boost costs for jewelers, helping the nation contain a record current-account deficit.
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India plans to unveil measures today to support the rupee as its slump to a record low against the dollar threatens to intensify price pressures and boost the cost to companies of repaying foreign debt.
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India’s food inflation rate exceeded 9 percent for a third straight week, sustaining pressure on the central bank to maintain its tight monetary policy stance.
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India’s central bank Governor Duvvuri Subbarao may need to raise interest rates as capacity constraints in power and roads and record borrowings fuel inflation, an adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.
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It takes more than an hour to drive the 25 miles of clogged highway linking New Delhi to Noida Special Economic Zone. Inside the gate, a smooth four-lane road leads to electronics, engineering and textile plants that are at the heart of India’s plan to imitate China’s export success.
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India’s government asked state-run companies to pay higher dividends to help narrow the budget deficit as slowing growth threatens to erode revenue, a finance ministry official with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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Persistent price gains may require an interest-rate increase in India this month, Chakravarthy Rangarajan , the prime minister’s top economic adviser, said as food inflation and exports climbed.
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India’s government bonds due 2022 completed their first weekly advance in almost a month on speculation the central bank will cut interest rates to revive an economy forecast to grow at the slowest pace in a decade.
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Rohit Saxena used to spend weekends huddled in a makeshift tent on the side of a dusty road in one of New Delhi’s fastest growing suburbs, darting into the baking sun to hand passing cars brochures for residential developments.
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India’s inflation may be “under pressure” until December and the central bank need not follow the policy of reducing interest rates being pursued by some counterparts abroad, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said.
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