Manufacturers of appliances and consumer electronics are seeking lower taxes on eco-friendly and energy-efficient products, more incentives for domestic manufacturing and waiving of customs duty on inputs imported to make the components in the upcoming Union Budget.

The Budget doubled basic custom duty from 10% to 20% on whole lot of imported products such as food grinder, juicer, shaver, epilator, geyser, room heater, hair dryer, electric iron, oven, coffee and tea maker, toaster and ceiling fan. The custom duty on wall fan has been hiked from 7.5% to 20%.

Electronic items like the mobile phones, TVs, laptops will be available on the e-commerce platforms from April 20, the official said. However, the delivery vans of the e-commerce companies will need permission from authorities for plying on the roads. According to Wednesday's guidelines, commercial and private establishments were allowed to operate during the extended lockdown.

A move to reduce active offline banking in the country resulted in the extreme opposite, at least in the short term.

Huatong Road & Bridge Group Co, based in the northern province of Shanxi, said it may miss a 400 million yuan ($64.5 million) note payment due July 23.

By comparison, the US had a 260% total-debt-to-GDP ratio in 2013 and Japan has 415%, according to the Financial Times.

China shares rose sharply as investors plowed into blue chips, cheered by progress of a trading plan that will soon make it much easier for foreigners to buy Shanghai stocks.

Market peaks have occurred historically at 25x-30x times earnings. On that basis, the market is fairly valued but not exceedingly expensive.

If the S&P 500 earns $115 in 2014, it is selling at 17.1x earnings. Market peaks have occurred historically at 25x-30x earnings.

US stocks ended near flat as concern about an escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict offset gains in consumer staples shares.

The China Enterprises Index of the top Chinese listings in Hong Kong fell 0.6 per cent. They are now down 0.8 and 1.5 per cent this week, respectively.

China's stock market got wrecked with the Shanghai Composite index crashing by 7.4 per cent. The market now down 19 per cent from its high.

In an interview, Rogers said that instead of buying US stocks, he is investing in Asian markets - Japan, Russia, and China.

George Kurian, the newly minted CEO of Netapp talks about the opportunities in India and the large trends changing the storage industry

"We want it to be a fusion of the best of the two cultures, rather than a Diageo-sation of USL."

Global M&A volume at USD 4.86 trillion in 2015 was the highest on record for any year, surpassing the previous record of USD 4.61 trillion in 2007.

Ambani visited the two districts and took a survey of the worst-affected areas to assess first-hand the primary and immediate requirements of the victims

Gross debt at Indian Oil, the nation’s largest refiner and fossil fuel retailer, has risen from ₹86,400 crore at the beginning of 2019-20 to ₹1,16,000 crore at the start of 2020-21. About 50% jump in debt in the January-March quarter came following the weakening of demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic, dividend outflow and delay in fuel subsidy transfer by the government.

Auditors and company executives told that higher provisioning may be necessary as the pandemic-induced sharp dip would have increased difficulties for these businesses already hit by the ongoing slowdown. In many cases, auditors have asked companies to provide up to 50%.

Indians may borrow more against their stash of gold as the world’s biggest lockdown raises financial stress .

Microfinance institutions and non-bank lenders are set to resume full-fledged operations in green and orange zones, or areas designated as safe from the Covid-19 virus outbreak, after the government announced lifting of several restrictions.

The lenders have also agreed to extend the three-month moratorium provided by the RBI on term loans to borrowers, the statement said, adding, collections will be made only from customers who have opted out of it.

Giving detailed information about this, Chief Minister Manohar Lal said that the dark zone, depleting level of groundwater and its excessive exploitation has become a challenge for us and we have started to solve these challenges for the coming generations.

Members of the trade bloc urged India to convey its initial response to the package by May 15 as the Indo-Pacific region braces for a post-Covid-19 economic order, ET has learnt.

The joint venture will focus on expansion of fund offerings and long term wealth creation.

Most debt mutual fund categories have witnessed outflows in the last month, data shows.

As I was upgrading an older codebase of mine that used layerX and layerY I looked into a very succinct way of finding the current mouse position on any element regardless of its position, scrolling, padding, margin and such and I found this to work for me, so maybe it is good for you, too. […]

The colour input type is pretty amazing, if you think about it. You can pick a colour from it and there are lots of great presets available. The colour picker is provided by the OS for the browser, so it differs from machine to machine. I, for example, totally missed that on a Mac, you […]

Over the years I’ve shared how to perform a number of actions with cURL: how to send POST data, how to retrieve headers, follow redirects, check GZIP encoding, and more. Another useful cURL directive is sending the user agent, as some servers respond with different content or headers depending on the user agent. Let’s have […]

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Having a default commit message is really useful for a number of reasons: It can formalize your commit messages It serves as a good reminder for the information you should add to your commit message, like issue number If you set it to “Drunk AF, don’t accept this” To set a default commit message on […]

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Access management can be a bit of a nightmare, especially when we realize that we rely on a number of different, independent services that power our organizations. Many businesses use Gmail for email, Google Docs for documents, Slack for communication, GitHub for their codebase, etc. Yet each of these services provides their own permissions screens, […]

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Now that we have most of the basics of HTML and CSS in the browser, we’ve begun implementing new features that I would consider “quality of life” improvements, many of which have been inspired by mobile. One great example is the CSS prefers-color-scheme media query, which allows developers to cater their design to system theme […]

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As you may have read, outside of gradients, you can’t change a background-image with CSS transitions. Or can you? At InControl Conference last week, Greg Rewis spoke about Transitions, Transforms and Animations. A question was asked about showing one background-image on load and transitioning to another in a subsequent pseudo-state. You can always change the [...]

Taiwan has been comparatively successful in containing the spread of the virus, reporting to date 388 cases and six deaths in a population of around 24 million. No fans were allowed in the 20,000-seater stadium to watch the Lions win 4-1, with health concerns limiting attendees to a total of 200 players, coaches, umpires, cheerleaders and journalists, local media reported.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government is anxious to get the country up and running again without igniting a second wave of infections as the economy reels and Spaniards gradually emerge from nearly eight weeks under lockdown.

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Robbins, Stephen P., 1943- author

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Robbins, Stephen P., 1943- author

Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

McMeel, Gerard

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Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, author, issuing body

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Robbins, Stephen P., 1943-

Samson, Danny, author

Robbins, Stephen P., 1943- author