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India Aims to be the World’s Most Open Economy: Modi

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today invited Japanese investments, saying India has a huge and substantial need for finances and his government was pursuing reform  policies  to make the country the world’s “most open” economy.  (Economic Times News) Addressing business leaders at the India-Japan Business Leaders’ Forum, he mentioned progress on GST and talked about other reforms in policies and rules to make investments  and doing business easier in India.  He said his government was committed to further reform policies to boost ‘Make in India’ and for creating conducive business environment through

Airtel India appoints Vani Venkatesh as CEO-Retail

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Bharti Airtel has announced the appointment of Vani Venkatesh as CEO — Retail.  In her new role, Venkatesh will be responsible for driving Airtel’s retail strategy to deliver a seamless customer experience across retail touch point.  Venkatesh  takes  over  from  Rohit Malhotra, who after spending over nine years with the company in various senior positions, has

New currency notes in ATMs from Friday: Indian Government

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The new hard­ to ­fake Indian Currency denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 will be available at bank ATMs when they start operating again from Friday, Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa said today.  “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
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