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Kerala Budget: Support price of rubber hiked, agri sector gets Rs 1,698 cr

Kerala FM Balagopal said Rs 1,698 crore would be set aside for the traditional agricultural sector and investments worth Rs 5,000 crore would be attracted to the tourism sector

Tewari gives adjournment notice in LS to discuss Indo-China border issue

Earlier last week, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi gave an adjournment motion notice in the Lok Sabha and sought a discussion on the border situation with China

Unusual election year Budget signals PM Modi's sky-high confidence

India's economy is now the fifth-largest in the world, from the tenth-largest when Modi first took office a decade ago, and the fastest expanding among major nations

Central govt workforce likely to decline by nearly 50,000 in 2025

The Interim Budget documents for FY25 show central government employee strength is estimated to peak in 2024 at 3.51 million, growing 12 per cent over the preceding year

Interim Budget indicates the way forward

On the external sector, the Finance Minister said that geopolitically, global affairs are becoming more complex and challenging with wars and conflicts

FPIs investment in debt market over 6-year high at Rs 19,800 cr in January

This was the highest inflow since June 2017, when they infused Rs 25,685 crore

Kerala Budget aims to increase revenue amid Centre's curbs: State FM

On Friday, the Kerala Assembly passed a unanimous resolution which accused the union government of destroying the federal structure of the country by financially strangulating the state

Our Budget announcements guarantee empowerment of poor, says PM Modi

Earlier today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Sambalpur

Interim Budget 2024: FMCG companies poised for rural demand revival

Budget schemes to revive demand over a period of time

Highway construction likely to reach 13K km in FY24: Highways secretary

Jain said the Ministry of Road and Highways (MoRTH) seeks to award 10,000 km of projects to maintain the pace of infrastructure development

At Rs 200K, Centre to provide 67% more to build rural homes in plains

Budget documents also showed that for houses that will be being built in hilly and north-eastern states, the per unit allocation has now been enhanced to Rs 220,000 as against the earlier Rs 130,000

Quantifying capex is reassuring but expect it to change in July: L&T CFO

I was just expecting her to say we will continue to keep focus on infra, he says

In the Lok Sabha poll year, oil companies get marketing Budget boost

Overall capex in the oil sector up by 18.6 per cent to Rs 1.33 trillion

Average monthly GST collection may touch Rs 1.7 trn in FY25: CBIC chairman

Customs duty collection may go up if global activities improve but targets can be pegged on the basis of trends only, he says

60% may shift to new tax regime in FY24: CBDT chairman Nitin Gupta

'No extension of concessional corporation tax rate for new manufacturing units'

We're on course to reaching inflation target of 4% in FY25: CEA Nageswaran

Our potential growth rate is somewhere between 6.5 and 6.8 per cent and it is not 6 per cent as the international agencies used to estimate, he says

Moving away from a disinvestment target: Dipam secy Tuhin Kanta Pandey

He said that of the Rs 30,000 crore miscellaneous receipt for FY24, the Centre expects to get about Rs 12,000 crore from asset monetisation and Rs 18,000 crore from disinvestment

Tax buoyancy cannot continue year after year, says DEA secy Ajay Seth

Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth spoke on the government's thinking behind the major budget projections and the fiscal math

It's not priority of govt to monitor consumption: Finance secretary

He says why the Budget numbers are realistic and speaks of the evolving approach of the government towards disinvestment, welfare schemes, and capital expenditure

Economic reforms implemented 'despite the odds', says FM Sitharaman

Rating agencies must take note of the country's transparent fiscal consolidation path, FM says