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The US currency put on more lustre on increased demand from banks and importers. The renewed strength of the dollar overseas weighed on the rupee, forex dealers said.

Expectations built up that Friday's meeting of the GST Council may provide some relief to exporters and SMEs in terms of faster refunds and compliance.

Asserting that genuine corporates will not face action, the minister of state for corporate affairs said non-compliant companies are tarnishing the image of good ones.

Fresh demand for the American currency came in from importers and banks.

In its fourth bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2017- 18, RBI forecast economic growth to slow to 6.7 percent in the current fiscal, from 7.3 percent projected earlier.

NITI Aayog, in its recent report, noted that Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) was plagued with complaints of leakages and poor quality food supplement, and recommended that pilot projects be initiated "to test the efficacy of implementing the IC...

According to the global financial services major, the central bank is expected to keep key policy rates unchanged while maintaining its neutral policy stance.

In the latest Global Competitiveness Report released on Wednesday, India has slipped from the 39th position to 40th while neighbouring China is ranked at 27th.

This comes at a time when several malware attacks have come to light globally, including in India.

As much as 66 percent of Tata Sons is owned by Tata Trusts. Two Shapoorji Pallonji family firms, Cyrus Investments and Sterling Investment, own 18.4 percent.

Arun Jaitley has held a series of meetings in the past few days with some of his ministerial colleagues and senior government officials to take stock of the situation and firm up steps to push up growth.

Lockheed Martin and Boeing are both bidding to supply combat jets to India's military, which is running short of hundreds of aircraft as it retires Soviet-era MiG planes, and its own three-decade long effort to produce a domestic jet is hobbled by delays.

National airports operator AAI plans to invest Rs 1,530 crore in the development work of the existing airports in Lucknow and Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh and Deoghar in Jharkhand to cater to the growing air traffic demand.

Addressing the Golden Jubilee Award Ceremony of Vishwarkar Rashtriya Puraskar, Gangwar said that Labour Ministry is working towards 'reforms and simplification in labour laws' and converting 44 labour laws into 4 simplified codes.

India's current high tariffs on pecans are affecting American pecan farmers, and have created a disparate trade barrier compared to some other tree nut producers, the Senators wrote in a letter to US Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer.

The NSE Nifty too was down by 31.80 points, or 0.31 percent, to 10,054.80.