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From the Sensex pack, ICICI Bank and Tata steel were the top gainers, rising over 2%. ITC, HDFC Bank, L&T, TCS, HDFC and Kotak Bank closed with gains

“The rural demand this year so far has been slightly higher than urban demand. The growth of retail in rural is about 24% compared to 22% for the urban areas. Going forward, these measures should pull up Maruti Suzuki’s sales in rural areas. It is already 44% of our portfolio.”

The government left this duty untouched for 2 years. In the Budget for FY21, the NCCD was raised by 2-4 times across cigarette stick sizes, resulting in tax hikes of 9-15%.

Globally, Sebi-run NISM is one of the largest financial market certifying institutions, issuing over 20 programme certificates covering various critical market functions such as sales, advice, operations and compliance across financial market products such as equities, derivatives of equity, currency, interest rates and commodities, mutual funds and pensions.

As of 31-Dec-2022, promoters held 0.0 per cent stake in the company, while FIIs held 7.22 per cent and domestic institutional investors had 2.09 per cent.

"Tax changes, even the focus on the dispute resolution adding 100 more joint commissioners is again path breaking and that would really reduce the backlog of pending cases. Generally, the focus on ease of doing business, making it easier for the taxpayers, the grievance redressal system, is hugely positive as well."

If any deduction claimed for expenditure made on purchase of sugar has been disallowed, an application can be made to the assessing officer, who will recompute the income of the relevant previous year after allowing such deduction up to the price fixed or approved by the government for such previous year.

A total of 1,661,665 shares changed hands on the counter till 02:14PM (IST)

The pan-European STOXX 600 was up 0.3% at 0814 GMT, coming off a 6.7% jump last month - its biggest gain in any January since 2015 - on hopes of better-than-expected corporate earnings and signs of economic resilience.Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk rose 2.2%, and led the gains among healthcare stocks, on strong 2023 sales growth expectations.

Apart from promoting value addition in TV manufacturing, Sitharaman took the same approach for other electronics like mobile phones by providing relief in customs duty on import of certain parts like camera lens while continuing the concessional duty on lithium-ion cells for batteries for another year.