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DPIIT ‘definitely’ working on new e-commerce policy: Govt official

“Who should be accountable for counterfeit products sold through an e-commerce company. Data is an important issue. The entire data issue will be governed by what actually the data law will be, which is before Parliament. That is why we are not in a hurry to finalise it (the policy)… So, whatever will be the final outcome of that data bill, it will apply to everybody who will deal with data,” the official said a regulator for the sector may come if required.

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RBI holds interest rates steady at record lows as economic outlook improves

“Going forward, the Indian economy is poised to move in only one direction and that is upwards. It is our strong conviction, backed by forecasts, that in 2021/22, we would undo the damage that COVID-19 has inflicted on the economy,” Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das said after announcing the rate decision.

The repo rate or RBI’s key lending rate was held at 4% while the reverse repo rate or its borrowing rate was left unchanged at 3.35%.

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Maharashtra: Uddhav Thackeray launches scheme for startups to help file IT patents

“Our goal is to make the state number one in various skill development schemes and startups. A number of schemes have been undertaken for this purpose and new schemes will be added in the future as well. It has been proposed to set up an international standard Center for Skill Development in Mumbai and courses in ITIs are being updated in a timely manner,” Malik said. 

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International rating agencies give thumbs up to proposal of raising FDI limit to 74 % in insurance sector

Prospectively, given the historical trends and the opportunity to hold greater ownership in the insurance companies, AM Best is of the opinion that the Indian insurance industry is likely to attract significant overseas capital inflow.
The possibility of higher foreign ownership would improve insurers’ financial flexibility by offering additional opportunities to bolster solvency. In addition, insurers would benefit from the sharing of risk management best practices, possibly leading to a lowering of exposure to high-risk assets and adoption of risk-based capital management, explained Mohammed Ali Riyazuddin Londe, vice President – senior analyst, Financial Institutions, Moody’s Investors Service.

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SJM and Employees’ unions oppose govt’s move to privatise a PSU general insurer

SJM National Co-Convenor Ashwani Mahajan stated that the announcement of privatisation of public sector banks and an insurance company is  worrying.After 2018, that had announced the merger of three PSU general insurers, National Insurance Company, Oriental Insurance Company and United India Insurance Company, which was called off in 2020, the announcement in Budget-2021-22 to privatise one of the PSU general insurers,  has again given rise to conjecture and confusion, said a statement by officials of different uinons, which had supported the mergers of three companies. .

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India showing a declining trend of Covid-19 cases since last four months, says government

The government’s strategy of focusing on testing, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine-containment is the fundamental approach for managing infectious disease outbreaks of epidemic or pandemic in nature, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey said, adding that the strategy has been recommended globally and by the World Health Organisation for suppressing transmission or breaking the cycle of transmission of Covid-19.

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Union Budget 2021-22:Sitharaman announces FDI limit hike from 49 % to 74 % in Indian insurance sector, one PSU general insurer will be privatised

Outlining some features of a company with FDI of  74 per cent, Sitharaman said in such insurance companies, 50 per cent of board will be independent directs, and all key person will be Indians.
The management control will be lying with the majority shareholders..
Sitharaman also announced government’s  intention to privitise  one of the state owned insurance companies and listing  of the Life Insurance Corporation.
The government will launch a new federal health scheme with an outlay of around 641 billion Indian rupees ($8.80 billion) over the next six years,

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Budget-2021-22:Govt yet to identify 2 PSU banks and a gen insurer to be privatised,Fin Secy Pandey 

`Privitisation of a public sector banks or an insurance company depends upon a lot of processes which will begin now. We will examine which of the PSU banks excluding IDBI Bank and insurance company is ready or to be  made ready. It will be a time consuming process. We will announce names once we identify these companies” said Ajay Bhusan Pandey, finance secretary, Ministry of Finance,.
“The NITI Awill do the due diligence and indenitify the names of the PSU banks and general insurance company that will be privatised. Then the proposals will go to Core Group of Secretaries on Disinvestment(CGD) and then to Alternate mechanism for the finalising the names . The privatisation process of PSUs is part of reforms agenda of the government and is a continuous process and shouldn’t be evaluated in one year, Debasish Panda, Secretary, DFS .

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