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Ease of Doing Business: Relaxed norms for setting up firms, other steps to help India to improve ranking

In its annual 'Doing Business' report, the World Bank ranks nations based on 10 parameters relating to starting and doing business in a country

Facebook agrees to change its advertising platform to settle discrimination suit

Facebook will create a new advertising portal for ads linked to housing, employment and credit.

RBI move on ECB is good; will ease pressure on cost of borrowing, encourage firms to borrow more from market

The idea is to have it more predictable so that companies can play around with their choice of borrowing.

Arun Jaitley says government does not need RBI funds in next six months, Centre keen to gain control over bank reserves

Critics accuse the government of trying to undermine the RBI's authority, but Arun Jaitley said the BJP-led government respected the institution’s independence.

Flipkart and Amazon offer consumers instant credit against their Aadhaar number

This is despite SC verdict preventing private entities from using Aadhaar number for verification.

Note-ban, GST hit household savings rate; decline may pose challenge for economy, says report

Despite an overall decline in the savings rate, the household savings rate for public sector increased marginally to 1.6 percent in FY17 from 1.5 percent in FY12 and for corporations, it fared better at 12.1 percent from 9.5 percent.

Axis Bank to process payments over WhatsApp in two month's time; over 66% transactions made digitally

Axis Bank is working with Google, WhatsApp, Uber, Ola and Samsung pay to be able to create the ecosystem for customers to be able to make payments

Budget 2018: Arun Jaitley can't treat agriculture as just another sector; it needs targeted policy action

Any set of solutions – and they will have to be a set – will have to address this volatility in growth and by extension, agricultural incomes.

Lower taxes, higher public expenditure could widen budget deficit in 2017-18, cautions Moody's

Moody's believes that the government’s commitment to fiscal consolidation remains and sustained growth would help it reduce debt burden.

Delhi woman shot dead in Shalimar Bagh; police say husband received threats after he failed to repay loan

A woman was shot dead allegedly by unidentified men in the wee hours today in northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh area, police said.