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Ranjit K. Jain | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Name: Ranjit K. Jain Profession: Distributors and channel partners Number of family members: 4 Annual Income: ₹30 lakh For a family in the ₹30-lakh income bracket, the Union Budget is a study in contrasts. While it delivers a major victory for our global aspirations, it remains stubbornly…
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File photo of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday (February 2, 2026) said the Union Budget for FY27 has focussed on investment as a priority tool for boosting consumption, and the trajectory of fiscal deficit shows that the government’s priority is growth. Interacting with the…
Representational image of a stock trader looking at a share price on a screen at a brokerage house | Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre Leading stock bourses NSE and BSE on Friday (January 16, 2026) said they will conduct live trading on Sunday, February 1, when Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget….
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Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav, party MPs Dharmendra Yadav, Dimple Yadav and Anand Bhadauriya in the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session, in New Delhi on February 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI/Sansad TV Terming the Union Budget “pro-rich”, Opposition members in the Lok Sabha on Friday (February 7, 2025)…
Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu asserted that the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 was aimed at increasing the growth rate, for which various policy interventions were laid down. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, India was poised to emerge…
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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: PTI The government has only committed to “half-hearted” steps of registering gig workers on e-SHRAM and including them under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, the Congress said on Sunday (February 2, 2025) and asserted that India needs a national legal and social security architecture…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who presented the Union Budget yesterday, clarified that the asset monetisation plan is not a substitute to disinvestment. Speaking to NDTV Editor-in-Chief Sanjay Pugalia on Sunday, Ms Sitharaman said, “Asset monetisation is not a substitute for disinvestment. Asset monetisation has been going on and will continue. In the 2nd…
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Anti-Tobacco activists in Mysuru have expressed their disappointment over the failure of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget to either increase sin tax or a percentage increase in cess under National Calamity Contingent Duty (NCCD). In a statement in Mysuru, Convenor of Anti-Tobacco Forum, Mysuru, Vasanthkumar Mysoremath regretted that the “tobacco industry was smiling while every…
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The Union Budget for 2025-26, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, is a mixed bag for Tamil Nadu. The DMK government’s slew of requests, including allocation of funds for the Chennai Metro Rail Project and disaster relief, did not find a mention in the Budget speech, while broader measures, including income tax benefits…
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The Union Budget for 2025-26, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, is a mixed bag for Tamil Nadu. The DMK governmentâs slew of requests, including allocation of funds for the Chennai Metro Rail Project and disaster relief, did not find a mention in the Budget speech, while broader measures, including income tax benefits…
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