The Lok Sabha today passed the Finance Bill, 2025, incorporating 35 government amendments. Notably, one amendment scraps the 6% 'Google tax' on foreign tech firms' online ads starting April 1, 2025.

In a major policy shift, the Indian government has decided to scrap the 6% equalisation levy, popularly known as the Google Tax. What does this mean? Watch the video to find out.

Members of Parliament are getting a hefty salary hike, and this hike is applicable to not just MPs', but former MPs too, effective April 1, 2023. Watch the video to know the full details.

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Civic authorities on Monday conducted a demolition drive at the house of Fahim Khan, key accused in Nagpur violence case who is currently in custody.

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The amendments include one that abolishes a 6 per cent digital tax, popularly known as the 'Google Tax,' on online advertisements

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The combined market valuation of nine of the top-10 most-valued firms surged Rs 3,06,243.74 crore last week, with ICICI Bank and Bharti Airtel emerging as the biggest gainers, in tandem with a bullish trend in equities.
Last week, the BSE benchmark gauge surged 3,076.6 points, or 4.16 per cent, and the NSE Nifty jumped 953.2 points, or 4.25 per cent.
The market capitalisation (mcap) of ICICI Bank jumped Rs 64,426.27 crore to Rs 9,47,628.46 crore, the most among the top-10 firms.
Bharti Airtel's valuation zoomed Rs 53,286.17 crore to Rs 9,84,354.44 crore.
HDFC Bank added Rs 49,105.12 crore, taking its market valuation to Rs 13,54,275.11 crore.
The mcap of Reliance Industries Ltd surged Rs 39,311.54 crore to Rs 17,27,339.74 crore and that of Bajaj Finance rallied Rs 30,953.71 crore to Rs 5,52,846.18 crore.
The valuation of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) soared Rs 24,259.28 crore to Rs 12,95,058.25 crore.
The mcap of State Bank of India climbed Rs 22,534.67 crore to Rs 6,72,023.89

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Air India has sought incentives for increasing the international to international traffic at the Delhi airport as well as lower landing charges for long-haul and ultra long-haul flights.
The suggestions have been made by the Tata Group-owned airline to the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) on the tariff proposal for the Delhi airport for the 2024-29 control period.
The airline is slowly expanding its wide-body operations as well as network to cater to rising air traffic demand.
When asked about the airline's suggestions, Air India CEO and MD Campbell Wilson told PTI that economic structure of the market should be supportive of the efforts to make India an aviation hub.
DIAL, the operator of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in the national capital, has proposed different user fees for economy and business class passengers as well as for peak and off-peak hours.
According to Air India, the variable tariff proposal needs to include incentive for increasing I

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India VIX, the measure of market volatility in the domestic market, jumped as much as 10.95 per cent to 13.9, the biggest intraday jump since January 6 this year

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India's highest-ever demand for back taxes related to import duties came after scrutiny of 12 years of Volkswagen shipments and has rekindled foreign investors' fears

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KTR also slammed the government for "locking up" the statue of Dr BR Ambedkar, questioning why it has been excluded from the tourism circuit

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