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March 30, 2020 9:26 PM

Govt extends PLI, RPLI Premium payment period till April 30

In view of the covid-19 outbreak, the  government has extended the Premium payment period for Postal Life Insurance and  Rural Postal Life Insurance  upto 30th of next month without charging any penalty. Directorate of Postal Life Insurance(PLI) under the Ministry of Communications said that althoug...

March 30, 2020 2:29 PM

All banks ensuring that their branches are kept open: FM Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that all banks are ensuring that their branches are kept open and ATMs are being filled up. In a tweet today, she said, banking correspondents are active. The Minister said, social distancing is respected and sanitizers are provided.

March 29, 2020 4:39 PM

Bank of India reduces lending rate by 75bps

Bank of India, today, said it has reduced the lending rate linked to external benchmark by 75 basis points, to 7.25 percent, effective April 1.   The lender's external benchmark lending rate is linked to the RBI's repo rate, which was reduced by 75 basis points, to 4.40 percent, on...

March 29, 2020 9:26 AM

Merger of 10 state-run banks into 4 to come into force from April 1: RBI

Reserve Bank of India has said that the merger of 10 state-run banks into four will come into force from April 1. The branches of merging banks will operate as of the banks in which these have been amalgamated.  The government on March 4 had notified the amalgamation schemes for 10 state owned banks...

March 28, 2020 10:25 AM

Loans and EMIs to be cheaper as SBI to cut repo rate by 75 basis points.

State Bank of India, SBI on Friday said that it has decided to pass on the entire 75 basis points repo rate cut announced by the Reserve Bank of India. The new rates, to be effective from 1st of April, will be applicable for its borrowers availing loans based on External Benchmark-linked lending rat...

March 28, 2020 9:55 AM

World Entered Recession:IMF

International Monetary Fund, IMF, has said that the world is in the face of a devastating impact due to the Corona virus pandemic and has clearly entered a recession. However, it projected a recovery next year. Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that IMF has reassessed the prospects for gro...

March 27, 2020 2:18 PM

RBI permits 3 month moratorium on EMI payments on all outstanding loans

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das today announced cut in benchmark interest rate, Repo Rate by 75 basis points to 4.4 per cent to deal with the hardship caused due to the outbreak of COVID-19. The central bank also reduced the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) of all banks by 100 basis...

March 27, 2020 12:07 PM

Moody's Investors Service today slashed its estimate of India's GDP growth during 2020 calendar year to 2.5 per cent, from an earlier estimate of 5.3 per cent and said the Corona virus pandemic will cause unprecedented shock to the global economy. In its Global Macro Outlook 2020-2...

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