Gold traders strike

Will take up excise duty issue with PM: Union Minister to jewellers

Gujarat MP and Union Minister Mohan Kundariya today said he will take up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the excise duty issue raised by striking jewellers in an effort to resolve the matter.

Mar 13, 2016, 23:58 PM IST

Cut in gold imports to keep current account deficit under control

Gold traders all over the country may be on strike against imposition of 1 percent excise duty in the recently tabled budget, the government is not stressed big time as the protest is helping it to observe a sharp cut in imports of the yellow metal in March from a year earlier

Mar 11, 2016, 05:03 AM IST