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India's tax strategy: Attracting capital and tech, building resilience

Budget 2026-27 sharpens India's tax strategy to boost manufacturing, services, GCCs and digital infrastructure, while improving certainty and long-term investor confidence

Income Tax dept aims to dispose of over 200,000 CIT(A) appeals in FY26

Building on last year's clearance of 172K cases, I-T department is pushing for faster appeal disposals, penalty reforms and system-driven processes to curb litigation and boost tax certainty

Trump plans $12 billion rare-earths stockpile to cut China reliance

US aims to shield manufacturers from supply shocks

Union Budget 2026-27: Centre tops up RDI fund with ₹20,000 crore

The Centre has doubled down on its research and innovation push, adding Rs 20,000 crore to the RDI fund as officials aim to appoint more fund managers and speed up investments

Why revised estimates for FY26 showed an increased food subsidy

Higher food subsidy in FY26 RE reflects Budget support for OMSS rice sales and ethanol blending, easing FCI's borrowing burden beyond PMGKAY costs

Warsh's return revives tensions over US Fed's $6.6 trn QE hangover

At the same time, Warsh could argue that by tightening financial conditions, a smaller balance sheet would grant his Fed room to cut its benchmark rate deeper

Slow UPI growth: Industry frets as monetisation remains elusive

A moderation in UPI growth is worrying industry players, who warn that low incentives and lack of monetisation could slow expansion of India's digital payments ecosystem

16th FC charts Union's fiscal path: Falling deficit, rising capex

The Sixteenth Finance Commission has proposed a consolidation roadmap that balances development needs with fiscal prudence

Pledge to invest $100 bn in OpenAI was 'never a commitment': Nvidia

As part of a letter of intent signed in September, Nvidia said it planned to invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI to support new data centers and other artificial intelligence infrastructure

Budget 2026: Customs duty relief to make cancer, rare disease drugs cheaper

A customs duty exemption on select high-cost cancer and rare disease therapies is expected to lower treatment costs for patients while supporting demand for multinational and domestic pharma companies

Budget 2026-27: A blueprint for institutional maturity in India's growth

For the private sector, the real story lies in the de-risking of the Indian investment landscape

Budget 2026: Pharma dept prescribes PLI boost for bulk drug output

FY27 PLI scheme allocation rises 2.24%, aiming to add 500 MT to domestic API production

Budget 2026: Govt targets 30 mn hospital admissions under PMJAY in FY27

The health ministry is targeting a sharp rise in hospital admissions and claims disbursal under PMJAY in FY27, even as the Budget provides only a marginal increase in the scheme's overall allocation

Expiry of nuclear treaty should alarm the world, says Dmitry Medvedev

The US has suggested that China, the world's third largest nuclear power by number of warheads, should join arms control talks. Beijing has indicated no willingness to join

Ather Energy Q3 results: Net loss narrows to ₹85 crore, revenue rises

The company reported a net loss of ₹198 crore in the October-December quarter of the previous fiscal

Iran protests European Union's terror tag for Revolutionary Guard

The move comes as Iran faces the threat of US military action in response to the killing of peaceful demonstrators and over possible mass executions

Datanomics: Census exercise gets financial backup in Union Budget 2026

Budget 2026-27 raises census allocation to a record ₹6,000 crore, but its share of total expenditure remains lower than in previous census years

Budget's manufacturing focus to support exports amid global headwinds

Sanjay Budhia, Chairman of CII's National Committee on Exports and Managing Director of Patton International Ltd, said the Union Budget 2026-2027 is a positive pointer unveiling the growth agenda

Budget 2026-27: 61% of labour ministry's record FY26 outlay unspent

Even as the labour ministry received its highest-ever allocation in Budget 2026-27, revised estimates show a majority of funds remained unutilised, largely due to low spending on central schemes

Oracle plans to raise up to $50 billion in 2026 for cloud buildup

Oracle is raising money to build additional capacity to meet the contracted demand from the company's largest cloud customers, including Advanced Micro Devices