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India recognises the need for environmentally sustainable development strategy: IMF

“India has introduced a very interesting new instrument, which is a clean environment cess. It’s an excise tax, but it is an excise tax that targets coal production and import. There is a very interesting instrument and it’s one which is very appropriate for India, because India can make a tremendous amount of progress by targeting reductions in energy production using coal,” the top IMF official said.

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India’s growth rate to fall to 6%, will recover to 7.2% in 2022: World Bank

“Growth is expected to gradually recover to 6.9 per cent in 2020-21 and 7.2 per cent in 2021-22 as the cycle bottoms-out, rural demand benefits from effects of income support schemes, investment responds to tax incentives and credit growth resumes. However, exports growth is expected to remain modest, as trade wars and slow global growth depresses external demand,” the report said.

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General Insurance premiums grow 17 % to Rs 96,000 cr in H12019-20

“We have got a very clear plan in place grow our business. Due to certain practices of certain players, it is now difficult to compete in motor insurance business. That’s why, we are concentrating on other segments like marine, hull, aviation, property and  engineering which constitute now more than 50 per cent of  our portfolios,’’ said Atul Sahai, CMD, NIA.

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