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May said her govt will consider improvements to India's visa offer if speed and volume of returns of Indians "with no right to remain" in UK is stepped up.

The new hard-to-fake Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 currency notes will be available at bank ATMs when they start operating again from Friday, Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa said on Wednesday. "There are going to be some difficulties which they (people) will face but for their convenience, a number of steps have been taken by the government, there are facilities to withdraw money from ATM and exchange currency at banks, withdraw money from accounts," he said on government withdrawing Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes from circulation to crack down on black money and counterfeit currency. People, he said, do understand the objective behind the move. "And I'm sure they will cooperate in dealing with the difficulties and inconvenience that they might face. And eventually things will settle down."

The expected paddy crop during year's Kharif season in Odisha may prove to be very beneficial for the farmers as the state government will be getting a record quantity of the produce from the peasants with a vision to enhance the rural economy.

The CBEC has issued a circular regarding revised rates in the rebate of state levies (ROSL) on the export of garments. The circular dated 9th November No.51/2016-CUSTOMS, 2016 supersedes the earlier notification issued by the Central Govt on Nov 16, 2015.

Taking advantage of the confusion arising due to the sudden announcement in the recalling of the Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes by the Govt, it has come to the notice of the income tax

Rubbishing rumours of shortage of salt in the country, the Union government today said there has been no increase in prices of the commodity which is being sold at Rs 14-15 per kg in retail markets.

With banks struggling to cope with rush to get alternative currency, the government has extended the use of old defunct Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 notes for paying household utility bills, fuel, taxes and fees and purchases from co-operative stores till November 24.

After receiving information that some jewellers had resorted to illegal transactions by selling gold to tax evaders who wanted to dispose off their unaccounted wealth, the central excise department got cracking on them. It has asked many jewellers to give a detailed account of the stock and sales made by them in the past four days.

In order to promote 'ease of doing business', the Government has taken a number of initiatives that includes making cargo clearance easier by reducing the use of paper and introducing electronic messaging and paperless processing.

Government has allowed NABARD to disburse Rs.21,000 crore to cash-starved farmers, helping them sow winter crops like wheat ahead of the sowing season, Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta said today.

Govt has waived the service tax to encourage cashless transactions.

The Finance Ministry has made it mandatory for all the government departments to do payments through e-payment mode and not cash, for transactions above Rs.5,000.

The government on Thursday announced it is currently working on facilitating cashless transfer of wages to workers with an aim to encourage digital transactions in the country.

In line with this year's annual budget, the Government had cut down the import duty on several essential commodities with an aim to stabilise the prices of these commodities in the country.

The industry has extended credit facility to the fertiliser retailers and dealers.

Government has extended the entitlement quota for one year in the export of readymade garments, knitwear, yarn, fabrics and made-ups to the countries of Canada, US, and European Union.

Telangana government is scheduling to levy 100 percent penalty on the current property tax if the building is completely unauthorized.

The DGFT in its notification no., 52/2015-2020 issued on Dec 30, 2016, has increased the quantity of sugar to 8424 metric tonnes

In a major relief to patients, the government has reduced prices of coronary stents by up to 400 per cent, capping them at Rs 7,260 for bare metal on

The government is considering imposing imports duty on wheat in order to protect the interests of farmers amidst expectations of a record production this year, said Ram Vilas Paswan, Minister of Food and Public Distribution. On December 8, the government had reduced the customs duty on wheat imports to nil from 10% in order to boost its availability in the domestic market and to check retail prices.