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GoAir flight ticket offer: On Bengaluru-Kannur route, GoAir flight tickets start from Rs 1,415.

GoAir said that it has added Kannur, Kerala, as its 24th destination. The Kannur International Airport, began operations after its inauguration on Sunday. GoAir is connecting Kannur to Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai, according to goair.in. Flight

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SpiceJet will deploy its Boeing 737 - 800 aircraft on all new routes.

Budget carrier SpiceJet announced new flight connections at a starting all-inclusive price of Rs 2,209. The daily direct flights introduced by the carrier, will operate on the Hyderabad-Kolkata, Hyderabad-Pune and Hyderabad-Coimbatore routes, starting from January 1, 2019, noted

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The last date for filing was earlier set at December 31, 2018.

New Delhi: The Finance Ministry has extended the last date for filing annual GST return forms by three months until March 31, 2019. 

The annual returns form in which businesses registered under the GST have to provide consolidated details of sales, purchases and input tax credit (ITC)

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Uday Kotak, head of Kotak Mahindra Bank, has been asked by RBI to lower his holding to 20% by 2018-end.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd said on Monday it had challenged in court the central bank's decision to disregard the issue of preference shares to reduce promoter stake in the private-sector lender, sending shares sharply lower. Uday Kotak, the

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NPS investment return varies from investor to investor, depending on a number of factors

NPS or National Pension System, a retirement savings scheme, is a pension-cum-investment scheme which offers regulated market-based return. NPS subscribers invest money to the fund that invests, via pension fund managers (PFMs), in various money-making i

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State Bank of India (SBI), offers 6.8 per cent interest for a tenure of one year to less than two years.

Small finance banks (SFBs) are niche banks which aim to extend financial services to under-banked customers. Since these banks are new, they offer higher interest rates than mainstream banks because they want to attract more customers. They also

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Poll also showed industrial output rose at an annual 5.7% pace in October, up from September's 4.5%.

BENGALURU: Inflation is likely to have cooled to a 16-month low in November, according to a Reuters poll, as food and fuel prices fell, supporting the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s decision to keep interest rates on hold at a policy meeting last week

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Buddhist circuit tourist train is manufactured in rail coach factory, Kapurthala.

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Saturday flagged off new Buddhist circuit tourist train from Safdurjung Railway Station. The new Buddhist circuit tourist train is equipped with enhanced features and will cover all the important destinations

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Reservation fee is also levied on RAC and waitlisted tickets, said Indian Railways.

The Indian Railways offers the option of ticket booking in accordance with the rules and conditions published in the coaching tariff. A passenger seeking reservation of berths or seats can purchase tickets from the railway reservation offices, authorised travel

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All sectors traded in the red led by losses in banks, pharma and metal stocks.

Domestic stock markets had a gap-down start on Monday amid weak global cues. The S-P BSE Sensex started at 35,204.66 and the Nifty50 barometer of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was at 10,508.70 against their last closing

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Global remittances are expected to grow 3.7 per cent to $715 billion in 2019, said World Bank.

India is expected to receive a total remittance of $80 billion in 2018, said the latest edition of the World Bank's Migration and Development Brief, released on Saturday.

"Among major remittance recipients, India retains its top spot, with remittances

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Budget passenger carrier IndiGo launched its first international flight from Vijayawada.

Airlines are regularly coming up with new connections and discounts on flight tickets in order to lure passengers and increase their customer base. These offers come amid high competition in the country's civil aviation sector, boosted by robust growth in

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Non-bank finance is a risk that has become more evident in last few years, said Maurice Obstfeld.

Washington: India's growth has been "very solid" over the past four years, IMF's Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld said, praising the fundamental economic reforms like GST and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code carried out by the government. Obstfeld,

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Mumbai: The outcome of Assembly elections in five states, along with fears over an escalation in US-China trade war and volatility in crude oil prices, are expected to determine the trajectory of the key Indian equity indices next week.

Market observers opined that the direction of foreign fund flows in the backdrop of US Fed's policy decision,

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NPS allows subscribers to contribute regularly in a pension account during their working life.

New Delhi: In a bid to make retirement income scheme more attractive for central government employees, the government has agreed to chip in a higher 14 per cent of the basic salary of an individual as its contribution to the National Pension System (NPS),

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Arvind Subramanian has said the country will benefit by having strong institutions

New Delhi: 

Drawing the link between demonetisation and GDP numbers, former Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian has said the puzzle thrown up by the note ban has a dual aspect - whether its impact as seen in the GDP (gross domestic product) numbers reflects a

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SBI online banking: The lender provides internet banking services through its portal, onlineSBI.com

State Bank of India (SBI) assists its customers in setting up a PPF or Public Provident Fund account online. SBI customers - holding one or more bank accounts with the bank - can prepare a PPF application form online through the lender's internet

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Arun Jaitley said economy is growing faster than some of its contemporaries.

Bankrupt companies offer a never-before opportunity to the global investors to ride the country's exceptional growth trajectory, thanks to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.

"Given the future potential of the economy and the fair

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Atal pension scheme 2018: The contribution required to earn a pension ranges from Rs 42 to Rs 1,454/month

Atal Pension Yojana (APY) is a government-run pension scheme focused on individuals working in the unorganised sector. Regulator PFRDA or Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, which administers the Atal pension scheme, allows

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The inaugural flight was flagged off from the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA).

Icelandic low-cost, long-haul airline WOW air on Friday launched its flight from New Delhi to Reykjavik-Keflavik Airport in Iceland.

The inaugural flight was flagged off from the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) earlier in the day. 

According to the

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The approval was given at a general meeting of shareholders, said SBI.

Mumbai: Lending major State Bank of India (SBI) on Friday said it has received shareholders' approval to raise up to Rs 20,000 crore.

According to the SBI, the approval for its proposal to "create, offer, issue and allot such number of equity shares of Re 1 for an amount not

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GoAir currently has 24 domestic and two international destinations on its network

GoAir commenced flight operations from Bengaluru to Phuket, Thailand and Male, Maldives on Sunday, news agency IANS reported citing a company statement. That marked the third addition to the airline's international network, after introduction of international flights

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The GST is applicable on sale of under construction property, said Ministry of Finance.

New Delhi: The government on Saturday said that buyers of real estate properties will not have to pay Goods and Services Tax (GST) if they purchase the fully constructed property after the issue of completion certificate.

"It is brought to the notice of buyers of

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Deposits in the NSC qualify for deduction under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act.

India Post or Department of Posts, which runs the postal network of the country, offers a number of saving schemes with different interest rates. National savings certificates (NSCs), one such product offered by India Post, fetches an interest rate of 8 per cent per

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Money invested in a Kisan Vikas Patra 2018 account doubles in nine years and four months

Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) is one among nine small savings schemes offered by India Post. Investment in KVP at present fetches a return of 7.7 per cent. Interest on money deposited in the KVP account is compounded on an

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Sovereign gold moved up by Rs 100 to Rs 25,000 per piece of 8 grams.

Gold prices climbed by Rs 250 on Saturday to close at Rs 32,350 per 10 grams at the bullion market, reported Press Trust of India (PTI). A firm trend overseas, where gold spurted on safe-haven buying, boosted the yellow metal's prices, traders were quoted as saying in the PTI

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Oil prices have slumped by more than 30 per cent since early October.

Mumbai: High oil prices pushed country's current account deficit in July-September to its widest in over four years, according to data released by the central bank on Friday.

However, the current account deficit is likely to fall due to a sharp drop in crude prices that will take

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AMB is the minimum average of deposits required by customers in their savings bank accounts.

Banks have mandated regular saving bank account users to maintain a certain average monthly balance (AMB) in their accounts, failing which they have to bear certain penalty charges. Average Monthly Balance (AMB) is the minimum average of deposits required

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Sukanya Samriddhi account can be closed after completion of 21 years, said India Post.

India Post, the postal system of the country, offers several savings schemes which require modest contribution but offer attractive investment return. Sukanya Samriddhi account, one such savings scheme offered by India Post, fetches an interest rate of 8.5 per

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The rupee is down 10.9% against the dollar so far this year

The rupee rose by 8 paise to close at 70.82 against the dollar on Friday, supported by strength in domestic equities and weakness in the greenback overseas. A fall in crude oil prices - with benchmark Brent slipping below the $60-a-barrel mark -

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