The government has pegged the combined fiscal shortfall at 9.8 per cent of which the central deficit is seen at 6.4 per cent (down from 6.7 per cent in FY22) and states' at 3.4 per cent for FY23.
The government has also raised concern over complying with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidelines and discussed it with other countries, according to an official
Loan growth could be better than in previous fiscal
The RBI did most of the heavy-lifting in the initial phase of the pandemic but was slow in unwinding the policy accommodation as economic reality changed
Govt's free food package, brought into effect since Covid outbreak in 2020, and RBI's lesser-than-expected dividend for FY22 might make the govt push the taxman to further augment revenues
Loans to medium-sized industries gerew 53.5% this April as compared with 44.8% a year ago
The number of counterfeit notes of Rs 2,000 denomination detected in the system was 13,604 pieces during 2021-22, up 54.6 per cent from the preceding financial year
The govt's recent $26-bn fiscal package, which includes tax cuts and subsidies, as well as the RBI's rate increase earlier this month, should be able to cool inflation to 6%, says R Gandhi
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Circulation of Rs 500 notes has risen consistently and is now 73.3% in terms of the total value
The year ended with an overall surplus of Rs 30,307.45 crore as against Rs 99,122 crore in the previous year, the RBI annual report showed
Indian Bank on Friday said it has reported three non-performing accounts, including IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power Ltd, as fraud to the RBI and the public sector lender has a combined exposure of over Rs 362 crore to these companies. Three non-performing accounts have been declared as fraud and have been reported to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as per regulatory requirement, Indian Bank said in a BSE filing. The nature of fraud comes in the form of diversion of funds in all these cases, the bank said. IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power has a fraud amount of Rs 320.34 crore against the bank, followed by Amico Textiles at Rs 30.98 crore and Sarbamangala Agro Products of Rs 11.26 crore. The bank said it has made provisions of up to 100 per cent in all these three fraud accounts as of March 31, 2022.
The Narcotics Control Bureau on Friday cleared Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, of all charges in the drugs-on-cruise case.
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The reduction in net-worth requirements follows an announcement regarding the same by the central bank in April
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The central bank will likely revise its inflation estimate to 6.2-6.5 per cent, which is way above the upper end of its tolerance band of 2-6 per cent, the economists at Barclays said
The RBI has also tightened guidelines, narrowing the regulatory arbitrage that existed between NBFCs and banks
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