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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s plan to hold a referendum on creditors’ demands for austerity has prompted a breakdown in talks with lenders, forced Greece to shut banks and left its future in the euro in doubt.(Cartoon by Rohnit Phore) <a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/article/economy/here-are-the-likely-scenarios-for-greece-after-referendum/94100/">Read full story</a>
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Scheduled domestic airlines (PTI)
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BSE Sensex on Friday rose by 147 points to again rally past 28,000-mark, largely driven by gains in banking and capital goods stocks on renewed buying interest by foreign investors and higher government spending.
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Surging for the fourth straight day, the Indian rupee gained 7 paise to end at 63.44 against the American currency on sustained dollar selling by banks and exporters amidst a soft greenback overseas.
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After three-day losing run, gold prices held steady at Rs 26,500 per ten grams at the bullion market on Friday on scattered buying activity by jewellers.
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Stocks of housing finance company, HDFC, topped among Sensex gainers by surging 2.53 per cent to Rs 1,316.05, followed by Hero MotoCorp rising 1.77 per cent to Rs 2,577.80. Other gainers on BSE include, HDFC Bank, BHEL, TCS, NTPC, Dr Reddy's, Bajaj Auto, Cipla, Axis Bank, SBI, ICICI Bank, HUL, ITC, Maruti Suzuki, Sun Pharma and Infosys.
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The percentage of Scheduled Caste (SC) households paying income tax was 3.49 per cent while Scheduled Tribe (ST) tax-paying rural households were mere 3.34 per cent, the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 said.
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Of all the rural salaried households, 5 per cent earned salaries from the government while those employed in the private sector constituted 3.57 per cent of the total households.
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The census survey, which was carried out in all the 640 districts of the country, pegged rural households at 17.91 crore. The total households in the country — rural plus urban — stand at 24.39 crore.
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