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The finance minister is likely to lay out the government’s economic agenda in the budget. New Delhi: More tax benefits for health insurance under the new tax regime, relaxation in payment norms for MSMEs and incentives for the agri-tech sector are among the stakeholders’ expectations from the first budget of the Modi 3.0 government. Finance…
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PM Modi met economists as the Modi 3.0 government will present its 1st full budget on July 23. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a meeting with senior NITI Aayog officials and leading economists as part of the wider consultations in the run-up to the Union Budget 2024-25. The Modi 3.0 government will…
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Budget 2024: Until 1999, the Budget was presented at 5 pm. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the full Union Budget for 2024 on July 23. The highly anticipated budget is the BJP-led NDA government’s first after its re-election for a third term. The budget is expected to outline the government’s vision for the country’s…
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2024 on July 23.(File) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table the Union Budget on July 23. With that, she will become the first Finance Minister to deliver seven straight budgets, surpassing Morarji Desai. She presented the interim budget on February 1, 2024. Why India has two…
Farmers expect this government to take a radical break from all its earlier Budgets. File | Photo Credit: MUSTAFAH KK The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance faced huge setbacks in the Lok Sabha elections in the agrarian belts of the country. The BJP lost in at least 38 seats in five States where the farmers’…
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Farmers expect this government to take a radical break from all its earlier Budgets. File | Photo Credit: K.K. Mustafah The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance faced huge setbacks in the Lok Sabha elections in the agrarian belts of the country. The BJP lost in at least 38 seats in five States where the farmers’…
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Budget 2024: Ms Sitharaman had presented an interim Budget in February. (File) The full Budget for the year 2024-25 will be presented on July 23, with the Parliament session beginning a day earlier, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju announced on Saturday. The Parliamentary Affairs minister said the Budget session will begin on July 22 and is…
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Under the PM Awas Yojna (Rural) housing scheme, the government aims to facilitate construction of an additional 20 million houses over the next few years. File. | Photo Credit: Ranjeet Kumar India plans to increase state subsidies on rural housing in the upcoming Union Budget by as much as 50% from the previous year to…
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State Bank of India Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu State Bank of India Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara has pitched for tax relief on interest income, saying it would help banks to garner savings that could be used for funding long-term infra projects. Currently, banks are required to deduct tax when…
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CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury and CPI leader D. Raja. File photo | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR In a bid to reduce the fiscal deficit, the Union government has cut down on expenditure that has led to welfare schemes and capital expenditure being curtailed and this would negatively impact future growth and economic fundamentals,…
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