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Union Budget 2025 Expectations highlights: Automotive sector calls for tax rebates, AI push
Union Budget 2025 Latest Updates: Catch all the latest developments related to Union Budget 2025 here
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Union Budget 2025 expectations highlights: Finance sector calls for reduction in loan limits
Union Budget 2025 Latest Updates: Catch all the latest developments related to Union Budget 2025 here
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India's budget likely to raise major subsidies by 8% to $47 bn in FY27
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the national budget on Feb 1, amid slowing growth in Asia's third-largest economy and rising global uncertainties
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Union Budget 2025-26: 25% income tax slab, higher rebate on the cards
The upcoming Budget may raise the rebate further, potentially making income up to Rs 10 lakh tax-free
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Budget 2025: How does the new income tax slab differ from the old regime?
In Budget 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to retain the dual tax system, offering taxpayers the choice between the simplified new regime with lower rates & older one with deducti
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Union Budget 2025 expectations highlights: Finance sector calls for investments on infra for growth
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Budget 2025: Food, fertiliser, direct, indirect, interest subsidies decoded
All you need to know about government subsidies and what to expect in the upcoming Union Budget 2025, scheduled to be tabled on February 1 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
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Will Budget 2025 kickstart Indian manufacturing, drive GDP growth?
Focus on the manufacturing sector was among the primary suggestions made to the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during the pre-Budget consultations by a group of economists
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Agri research needs big boost, has to be more focused, say experts
Studies show that agri research has the highest RoI among farm-linked activities. Will ICAR get more funds in the Budget?
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Budget session 2025 to be held from Jan 31 to Apr 4: Check key dates here
President Droupadi Murmu will address a joint sitting of the Upper and Lower Houses on January 31, after which the Economic Survey will be tabled
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FM Sitharaman meets Singapore president to discuss strategic partnership
India-Singapore relations were elevated to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Singapore in September 2024
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Union Budget 2025 expectations updates: Govt should target Rs 11 trillion capital spend, says ICRA
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Steel ministry seeks $1.7 bn from budget to help mills cut emissions
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the federal budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year on February 1
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Union Budget 2025 updates: Medtech industry calls for standard GST rate
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Everything Rahul Gandhi says is in direction of breaking country: Nadda
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asked what for the Congress and Gandhi carry a copy of the Constitution when the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha is using such a language
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FM Sitharaman criticises Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on RSS, BJP
Gandhi said it is the Election Commission's duty to provide a voters' list with names and addresses of those who voted in the Vidhan Sabha election
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GST Tribunals may be delayed by 6 months as states yet to appoint officials
In May 2023, the Centre appointed Sanjaya Kumar Mishra, former Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court, as the GSTAT president for a four-year term
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FinMin meet: MFI representatives seek lowering of asset qualification norms
In 2022, the RBI updated regulations for MFIs, which now apply to all entities in the sector, including banks, small finance banks, and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs)
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Need tech-savvy forces to protect digital world: FM Nirmala Sitharaman
Sitharaman said that India was growing in the eyes of all its competitors, many of whom find such growth astonishing
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Budget FY26: Goldman Sachs highlights focus on fiscal deficit, growth
India's elevated public debt-to-GDP ratio remains a concern. A reduction in the general fiscal deficit from 8 per cent in FY25 to 7 per cent by FY30 is critical to keeping public debt sustainable
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