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India Inc to boost capex as Budget drives infra, manufacturing, mining

The Economic Survey released on Friday emphasised that the private sector must take the lead in driving economic growth

Budget 2025: Defence gets Rs 6.81 trn; aircraft, engines, ships in focus

The MoD has designated 2025 as the 'Year of Reforms', announcing in December that the Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 is 'expected to undergo a complete revamp' this year

Budget reforms to enhance competitiveness of critical minerals: Industry

Sitharaman also said that mining sector reforms, including those for minor minerals, will be encouraged through the sharing of best practices and the institution of a State Mining Index

Budget 2025: J&K gets Rs 41,000 crore, separate Rs 9,325 cr for police

In the budget presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha on Saturday, Rs 40,619.30 crore has been allocated as central assistance to meet the resource gap in J&K

Budget 2025: Rs 20,000 cr allocated to DPT for starting Rs 1 trn R-D fund

Presenting the Union Budget for the 2025-26 fiscal, the finance minister also said a Deep Tech Fund of Funds would be explored to catalyse the next generation start-ups as part of this initiative

Budget proposes focused scheme for footwear industry, to create 2.2 mn jobs

Scheme to support design capacity, component manufacturing, and machinery for producing non-leather 'quality footwear'

Union Budget 2025-26: Accelerating India's march towards Viksit Bharat

The enhancement of the credit guarantee cover for MSMEs from Rs 5 crore to Rs 10 crore should make more credit available to these units, which are significant employment generators

Increased spending on housing projects will drive demand: Cement makers

The Budget presents a vision for India's economic growth emphasising rural and urban development, increased infrastructure investment, employment-led growth and strategic investments

Budget neglects challenges facing Indian economy, say Left parties

The Left party pointed out that the budget papers reveal that in the last one year, the government actually spent approximately Rs 1 trillion less than what the budget had promised

MEA gets Rs 20,516 cr in Budget 2025, aid to Bhutan highest at Rs 2,150 cr

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) was allocated a total of Rs 20,516 crore as against the current fiscal's budget estimate of Rs 22,154 crore and revised estimate of Rs 25,277 crore

Govt proposes new tariff lines for rice, makhana products in Union Budget

The government has proposed creating new tariff items and supplementary notes for identification of certain technical-grade pesticides and certain goods covered by international conventions

Budget 2025: 'Made in India' energy transition gets boost with duty cuts

Customs duties on input goods for electric vehicles, solar panels slashed

Budget 2025: IB gets Rs 3,893.35 cr, allocation for NATGRID slashed by 36%

The IB, responsible for intelligence gathering, counter intelligence and counter espionage operations in the country, was allocated Rs 3,823.83 crore in 2024-25 and it was revised to Rs 3,966.21 crore

Budget 2025 will help make India a top global tourism destination: Industry

Further, the introduction of visa fee waivers and e-visa options for certain tourist groups will make India an even more attractive destination

FM Sitharaman announces National Geospatial Mission, allocates Rs 100 cr

The announcement of the mission was welcomed by the geospatial industry that said it would be crucial for building smarter cities, with data-driven insights

Govt to form panel for regulatory reforms: FM in Union Budget speech

The objective is to strengthen trust-based economic governance and take transformational measures to enhance ease of doing business, especially in matters of inspections and compliances

Govt to share selected data, maps from PM Gati Shakti with pvt sector: FM

By the use of this platform, the DPRs are getting ready in 2-3 months (including ground truthing). Earlier it used to take 6-8 months through simultaneous visualisation of all relevant details

Budget strengthens India's position as innovation powerhouse, say startups

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a new Fund of Funds Scheme (FFS) with a corpus of Rs 10,000 crore to promote the growth of budding entrepreneurs in the country

Budget 2025: Govt to rationalise procedures for speedy company mergers

Among other steps, the minister said the government will now bring up the Jan Vishwas Bill 2.0 to decriminalise more than 100 provisions in various laws

Sensex gave positive returns in 7 of 14 Budget presentation days since 2014

On July 23, last year, the BSE benchmark ended lower by 73.04 points or 0.09 per cent at 80,429.04. On the interim Budget presentation on February 1, last year, the BSE Sensex ended lower by 0.14