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The government had first proposed major reforms, including plans to reduce 44 labour laws to four broad codes, in November 2015 in an attempt to overhaul India’s archaic labour laws.

After a highly volatile session, the 30-share index ended 394.67 points, or 0.99 per cent, lower at 39,513.39. The index hit an intra-day low of 39,441.38 and a high of 40,032.41.

Presenting her maiden budget, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday proposed to extend the buyback tax at 20 percent to listed companies as well.

Union Budget 2019: The ICICI Bank stock has climbed a whopping 57% in the last one year, compared with a 12% rise in the benchmark Nifty 50 index.

Union Budget 2019: The stock has lost almost 24% in the last one year compared with a 12% rise in the benchmark Nifty 50 index.

Union Budget 2019: Britannia Industries reported a rise of 18.39% in its net profit at Rs 289.69 crore for the March quarter compared to Rs 244.69 crore for the same quarter in the previous year.

The rupee opened strong at 68.83 at the interbank forex market then gained further ground to touch 68.79 per dollar, displaying gains of 16 paise over its previous close. On Tuesday, rupee had settled at 68.95 against the US dollar.

The high court has put a freeze on deposits of $6.122 million (Rs 44.41 crore) following the ED's request on the ground that the money was 'proceeds of crime' illegally siphoned off by Nirav Modi from the Punjab National Bank.

Inexperienced traders should keep away from the stock market as the volatility will be high, margins will be blocked and the risk to reward ratio will in all likelihood be favourable.

She replied this on a question whether the government has received any representation from gold traders requesting for reduction in import duty on gold.

The allocation set aside for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in the Budget by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will determine the seriousness towards the clean energy push.

The tourism sector is essential for India’s service economy as it directly ties in with aviation, hotels and tourism operator industries, all sizeable employment creators,

Shares of companies like Aarti Industries, Fine Organic Industries, Galaxy Surfactants, PI Industries and SRF are trading near their all-time highs.

Oil prices rose more than 2% on Wednesday to their highest in about a month, buoyed by US government data showing a larger-than-expected drawdown in crude stocks.

Mizoram CM Zoramthanga said the air fares were unrealistically high as they are not governed by sector, length or flying time.

The RBI had issued a directive in April 2018 on 'Storage of Payment System Data'. It had advised all system providers to ensure that within a period of six months, the entire data relating to payment systems operated by them is stored in a system only in...