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The defence budget has been hiked by 6 per cent from Rs 3.18 lakh crore to Rs 3.37 lakh crore in the Union Budget 2020 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday. ...
The BJP terms the Union Budget "pro-farmer" in which fertiliser subsidy has gone down quite a bit. Against last year's Rs 79,998 crore, this year's estimated fertilizer subsidy is Rs 71,309 cr. ...
After slashing income tax rates for individuals on condition that they give up exemptions and deductions, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the government intends to remove all IT exemptions in the long run. ...
With Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announcing a new scheme to encourage manufacturing of mobile phones, semiconductor packaging and electronic equipment, mobile industry bodies and vendors on Saturday welcomed the move, saying the measures will ...
Trashing the Union Budget as high on pomposity and low on tangible, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said here on Saturday the economy was not a priority for the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government and it was too busy pursuing its nega ...
Accusing the government of being in a denial mode amid the economy facing grave challenges, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram here on Saturday said the people didn't deserve such a budget for voting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power. ...
The Union Budget 2020-21 has proposed a new scheme called 'Vivad Se Vishwas' (no dispute but trust) which aims at reducing litigations in the direct taxes payments. ...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday proposed to soon bring out a policy to enable private sector in building Data Centre Parks throughout the country, thus enabling firms to incorporate data in every step of their value chains. ...