India has Highest and Fastest Growing Millionaires

BeyondHeadlines News Desk New Delhi: India is among the eight Asia-Pacific markets, which are part of the 20 fastest growing markets in terms of its population of high net worth individuals (HNWIs). Other markets include Hong Kong, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Singapore. The total wealth held by India’s high HNWIs, who have investible assets [...]

Harun Rashid Khan Appointed as RBI Deputy Governor

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BeyondHeadlines News Desk New Delhi: Harun Rashid Khan, a career central banker who worked with Thorat for years, has been appointed as the new deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). As the deputy governor he has been appointed for a period of three years. Khan, who succeeds Shyamala Gopinath who retired last month, [...]

Hollowness of the UPA’s Inclusive Growth Revealed by National Sample Survey

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BeyondHeadlines News Desk New Delhi: The strategies of United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for inclusive growth “stood exposed a few years ago when the Arjun Sengupta Commission report highlighted that the “other India” gained very little from most pro-poor schemes.   The key findings of the latest National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) survey bring to [...]

Demand for “Penal Tax” on Diesel Vehicles

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M Reyaz,  BeyondHeadlines New Delhi: Delhi based industrialist Vivek Bharat Ram is pressing for “penal tax” on diesel vehicles. Ram has written a letter to the Finance Minister Pranab Mukharjee, dated June 18, a copy of which is available with the BeyondHeadlines, demanding action on the Kirit Parkih Report at the earliest. He writes, “I [...]

Kanimozhi Named a Co-conspirator in The 2G Scam Case; Arrested

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BeyondHeadlines News Desk New Delhi: DMK supremo K Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi and the MD & CEO of Kalaignar TV, Sharad Kumar, have been arrested in the 2G spectrum scam case. The arrest followed soon after a special CBI court rejected their bail pleas on Friday. The DMK MP is sent to Tihar Jail, where the [...]

Special News from Africa Now on BH

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BeyondHeadlines Management New Delhi: BeyondHeadlines Team is proud to announce that it now will have a special new section for Africa. BH has got a written permission from ‘News from Africa’ (www.newsfromafrica.org) for using their content with due credit. NFA is a ‘noble initiative.’ It is an “independent online news agency that publishes news and [...]

Outstanding Bills of $ 70 Million of Foreign Companies Denting India’s Image

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Afroz Alam Sahil,  BeyondHeadlines Six months after the Common Wealth Games, $70 million payment of 20 foreign companies are still pending and is severely damaging India’s reputations in the international market. The RTI report dig out by Subhash Chandra Agarwal, of which BeyondHeadlines has a copy, reveals that the high commissioners of eight countries in [...]

UBI Launches ATM IT Payment Facility

Business Desk BeyondHeadlines India’s fifth largest bank Union Bank of India has launched direct tax payment facility through its more than 2000 ATMs. Launching the income tax payment facility through UBI’s ATMs State Finance Minister Namo Narain Meena said that this facility will bring small individual taxpayers under the ambit of e-payment of direct taxes, [...]

2G Scam: CBI Likely to Reveal Arrests of DB Realty Execs

BeyondHeadlines News Desk New Delhi: Post CBI’s raid at several locations of the DB Realty Group on March 28, sources say a confirmation on the likely arrests of executives of the DB Realty Group and Kusegaon Realty is on the cards. As CBI confirmation is awaited on the development in the 2G scam probe, CNBC-TV18′s [...]

India, Pakistan to Hold Talks on Trade Issues in April

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BeyondHeadlines News Desk After a two-year gap, Pakistan and India have decided to hold technical level talks next month for the removal of hindrances for increasing bilateral trade. The Indian Commerce Secretary will visit Pakistan towards the end of April to resume talks on trade issues, which remained stalled following the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, [...]

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