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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Food prices are expected to be under control in the coming year, going by advance estimates of crop output, but the government will keep monitoring prices and act…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the new income tax bill – which she had mentioned in her Budget speech on February 1, and which is expected to reduce the jargon in the Income-Tax Act of 1961, making it easier to understand and implement – in Parliament on Thursday. However, as she rose to…
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Lok Sabha on February 11, 2025. Photo: Sansad TV via PTI India’s economy is in the midst of “a speedy rebound” after a brief moderation in the second quarter of this year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday, asserting that the Union Budget 2025-26 has sought to…
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New Delhi: A new Income Tax bill — promised by Union finance minister in her last year’s budget — will be tabled in parliament on Thursday, sources have told NDTV. The bill is meant to simplify the language of the tax laws and it would later be sent to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance. It…
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New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday lashed out at the ruling West Bengal dispensation saying Trinamool has become a by-word for exploitation and the party has institutionalised corruption. Stating that there is rampant corruption in MGNREGA and PM Awas Yojana in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state and its cadre has been thriving at the…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday dispelled concerns over a rise in Goods and Services Tax (GST), saying that there is not even one item on which the rate has been increased after the implementation of GST regime. Intervening during Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, Nirmala Sitharaman stated that GST rates have been…
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the Indian economy will continue to be the world’s fastest-growing economy backed by the increase in the government’s capital expenditure in the Budget for 2025-26 and rising consumption levels, especially in the rural areas. In her reply to the Union Budget debate in the Lok…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi, on February 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Government is using almost the entire borrowing in 2025-26 towards financing capital expenditure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday (February 11, 2025) She said the effective…
Image used for representation only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The story so far: With the government providing a tax stimulus through income tax breaks to boost consumer spending and the RBI cutting interest rates for the first time in nearly five years, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said she was quite optimistic of…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra and Directors at a meeting in New Delhi on February 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) following up the Union Budget’s demand stimulus for the slowing economy with a long-awaited interest rate cut, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on…
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