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Moody's thumbs-up to Budget fiscal plan

Currency market disagrees; rupee drops to low of 55.15 versus dollar but recovers on close

Industry seeks more sops to boost investment

Iconic Harley cuts prices, increases local assembly

Announcement on the heels of the government increasing customs duty on imported bikes

Budget focus on skill development a positive: Devina Mehra

The Chief Global Strategist, at First Global, says the FM managed to walk the tightrope

No rollback of duty hike on SUVs: P Chidambaram

Tax increase on SUVs is small, buyers get huge benefit in terms of subsidised diesel

Company officials face jail term for service tax defaults

Offences of availing and utilising credit of tax paid without actual receipt of taxable service made non-bailable under CrPC

TRC among 14 I-T retro amendments

Last year's Budget saw 34 such amendments

Budget 'realistic', positive for ratings, says Moody's

Govt's fiscal consolidation plans could pave way for monetary easing, thus helping revive economic growth

Gold sale in Gulf to rise on limit revision for NRIs

Since India levies almost 7% duty on gold, NRIs who take gold ornaments with them can easily get this benefit when they sell it back home

Edu-training firms see increased opportunity in 'skilling' push by FM

The National Skill Development Corporation has been asked to set the curriculum and standards for training in different skills

Budgets, diesel to increase power prices

FinMin equalised duties on both steam coal and bituminous kinds of coal to levy 2% customs duty and 2% countervailing duty

Optimistic Budget jars with revenue reality

India's sputtering economy must accelerate to roughly 6.5 to 7% growth from the current fiscal's expected 5%

1% TDS could push realty prices up, delay transactions

After Budget, CEOs clamour for interest rate cut

Budget aims at plugging tax leakages in property deals

Buyer to pay tax on gains made on undervalued property purchase

Budget comments

FM to 'hangout' with netizens on budget tomorrow

This is first time the FM will use Google Hangout to answer netizens' queries on the Budget

Added focus on agri-loans may spike NPAs further: India Ratings

NPAs from farm front have been amongst the highest this fiscal for the public sector banks

New Defence Budget leaves ex-Army generals, experts unhappy

They say the allocation is not sufficient keeping the current security environment in mind

6.5% growth in FY14 is reasonable: Montek

He said it would be achievable in the backdrop that India's last decade long term average GDP growth is 7.3 or 7.4%