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Guest column: Focus on growth in all facets
The FM has incentivised the people buying affordable houses by increasing fiscal incentives on a home loan.
06 Jul 2019 7:54 AM
The budget and the city
We asked Delhi-hites what they thought of the Union Budget unveiled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam yesterday. Here’s what they had to say.
06 Jul 2019 7:42 AM
Budget 2019: 2 per cent TDS on cash payments above Rs 1 cr
The move to use Aadhaar number for filing returns is expected to ease the tax-filing process.
06 Jul 2019 7:09 AM
Budget 2019: Less funds for 2 departments of Jal Shakti ministry
The allocation for department of water resources and Ganga rejuvenation for 2019-20 is Rs 8,245 crore, which was Rs 8,860 crore in 2018-19.
06 Jul 2019 6:42 AM
Union Budget 2019: Big incentives for rural business and women start-ups
WCD minister Smriti Irani took to Twitter to praise the Budget, saying it will give further impetus to the mission of women-led development.
06 Jul 2019 6:38 AM
Nirmala’s maiden Budget is reform oriented, and in the right direction
The Budget has devised just the right strategies to take India on the path of inclusive growth.
06 Jul 2019 6:35 AM
Budget 2019: Aadhaar, PAN interchangeable for IT returns
The move is aimed at improving tax compliance and ease the process of tax payment for tax payers.
06 Jul 2019 6:27 AM
Budget 2019: Common man hit hard as many items of daily use to get costlier
Sitharaman said exemptions from customs duty on certain electronic items that are now being made in India are being withdrawn.
06 Jul 2019 6:21 AM
Budget 2019: Affordable housing gets shot in the arm, with major tax breaks
The minister also proposed providing capital gains exemption from profits earned by selling residential houses by investing in start-ups.
06 Jul 2019 6:17 AM
Union Budget 2019: Fresh thrust on ‘gaon, garib, kisan’
Both the “ease of doing business” and the “ease of living” should apply to farmers too.
06 Jul 2019 6:13 AM
Budget 2019: Milind Deora opposes model tenancy law
Activists back new law, say young generation prefers rental housing.
06 Jul 2019 2:57 AM
Low on populism, Budget 2019 aims to spur growth with rural focus
Petrol, diesel costlier by Rs 2/litre; sops for startups; incentives for e-vehicles.
06 Jul 2019 2:40 AM
Union Budget 2019: Marginal hike in CBI Budget, gets Rs 781 crore
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Friday presented Union Budget for 2019-20 in Parliament.
06 Jul 2019 2:38 AM
Railways infrastructure needs Rs 50 lakh crore till 2030: Nirmala Sitharaman
Sitharaman proposed to enhance the metro railway initiatives by encouraging more PPP initiatives and ensuring completion of sanctioned works.
06 Jul 2019 2:19 AM
Budget may trigger ‘virtuous economic cycle’
Budget has proposed reforms, which are in line with its plan to kick-start domestic and foreign investments boost the economy and create more jobs.
06 Jul 2019 2:16 AM
Budget 2019: Massive Rs 2 lakh cr push to infrastructure, connectivity
Budget finds that the country needs to develop waterways to shift a significant portion of inland cargo movement from road and rail.
06 Jul 2019 2:16 AM
Union Budget 2019: Big tax sops for Gift City to put bourse on growth path
The setting up of Unified regulator will further put GIFT IFSC in a fast track mode.
06 Jul 2019 2:10 AM
Public holding base hike fuels panic selling
Shares of companies where promoters’ shareholding is more than 65 per cent fell sharply.
06 Jul 2019 2:06 AM
Sitharaman hits all the buttons, sticks to basics
Despite a long speech there were no magic bullets presented to kickstart a virtuous cycle of investment, growth and jobs.
06 Jul 2019 1:07 AM
Nirmala’s Budget fullof political flourishes
The Budget speech was a political declamation, but there were strong signs of the government’s desperate bid to “kickstart” the economy.
06 Jul 2019 12:00 AM
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