Category: Economics Current Affairs

South Asia Economic Focus: World Bank The World Bank in its report South Asia Economic Focus (Bi- Annual) cut its economic growth forecast for India and the whole South Asian region. South Asia Economic Focus describes recent economic developments, analyses the economic impact on South Asia of the war in Ukraine, presents growth forecasts, provides […]

Rural Inflation: Official data pegs rural inflation in March at 7.66%, with several States reporting even higher inflation, including West Bengal (8.85%), Uttar Pradesh and Assam (8.19%) as well as Madhya Pradesh (7.89%). Urban inflation has usually tended to be higher than rural inflation by an average of about 0.8 percentage points through most of […]

National Conference On Cooperation Policy: The National Conference on Cooperation Policy concluded in New Delhi. Highlights of the Conference: The conference was structured into six important themes covering not only the whole life cycle of cooperatives but also touching upon all the facets of their business and governance. The panel discussions have been held on […]

Retail Inflation: Retail inflation accelerated sharply to 6.95% in March, the fastest pace of price gains in almost a year and a half, and marked the third straight month when inflation exceeded the Reserve Bank of India’s tolerance threshold of 6%. A surge in food price inflation, which quickened to 7.68% from 5.85% in February, […]

What Is The Concessional Tax Rate Regime? Government data has shown that the concessional corporate tax rate announced by the Union government in September 2019 saw two out of every five new domestic manufacturing companies incorporated in 2019-20 (April-March) opting for the reduced 15% tax rate. Corporation tax is a direct tax placed on a […]

Cardless Cash Withdrawals At ATMs : RBI The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced cardless cash withdrawals at ATMs across the country which will enable consumers to use Unified Payment Interface (UPI) on their smartphones to withdraw cash from Automatic Teller Machine (ATMs). It would help prevent frauds like card skimming and card cloning. Currently, […]

RBI Draft Norms For Trade Via E-commerce: The Reserve Bank of India has proposed to modify the existing norms that are in place with the aim of rationalizing and simplifying the process for payment settlement for imports and exports through e-commerce. The draft guidelines named ‘Processing and Settlement of small value Export and Import related […]

Monetary Policy Review: RBI The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its latest Monetary Policy review has decided to keep the main policy rate – Repo rate – unchanged at 4%. It has also retained its accommodative stance, but indicated it will engage in a gradual and calibrated withdrawal of surplus liquidity to rein in […]

National Pension System: Many states are demanding to restore the Old Pension Scheme and roll back the National Pension System (NPS). Rajasthan has said it will bring back the old pension scheme in the state from the next financial year, and Chhattisgarh is expected to follow suit. Governments of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Assam have […]

Interest Rates Unchanged On Small savings Schemes: The government has kept interest rates unchanged on Small savings Schemes, including NSC (National Savings Certificate) and PPF (Public Provident Fund) for the first quarter of 2022-23 (April-June) due to an elevated level of inflation. Small Saving Schemes are the major source of household savings in India and […]