Page 12 - Latest Updates on Budget 2025-26

Budget 2025: Investment, turnover limits for MSMEs hiked up to 2.5 times

Currently, over 1 crore registered MSMEs, employing 7.5 crore people and generating 36 per cent of our manufacturing, have come together to position India as a global manufacturing hub

Sector Watch: From tech to auto, how the Budget affects key sectors

Broadband connectivity to all government secondary schools and primary health centres

Charting a new growth path: Engine of growth yet to ensure full safety

Derailments are the top cause for accidents, with collisions and fire being distant second and third. In 2022-23, there was a spurt in the first two accident types

Budget 2025: PPP, asset monetisation open door for private sector

FM proposes Rs 1.5 trn outlay for 50-yr interest-free loans to states for capex

A pro-growth Union Budget 2025-26 marked by coherence and consistency

The Budget represents a continuation and an acceleration of the government's multi-pronged economic development strategy

Union Budget 2025-26: Laying the foundation for improved railways

The Indian Railways needs a well-thought-out business model and a master plan for successfully implementing the light and express cargo transportation...this job must be entrusted to consultants

Union Budget 2025-26: Charting a new growth path amid capex decline

The private sector has pulled back spending on new factories and other long-term assets, while government infrastructure projects, such as new roads, have also slowed

Indices indecisive on Budget moves: EY India analyses top stock reactions

Benchmark indices ended flat in a special trading session on Saturday

Budget: Railway capex stays flat; revenue receipts set to cross Rs 3 trn

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has kept the outlay provided for capital expenditure (capex) in the Railways at Rs 2.65 trillion, almost the same as the 2024-25 budget estimate

Budget 2025: Charting a new growth path with a boost to the tax net

Higher collections have also resulted in calls to use the opportunity to simplify the goods and services tax structure

Budget sets a comprehensive blueprint for India's economic growth

The FM announced income tax relief for middle-class households to the tune of $12 billion (0.3 per cent of GDP), which is expected to give a significant boost to urban consumption and savings

Budget 2025: Govt plans to reduce debt-to-GDP ratio to 47.5-52% by FY31

The six-year roadmap until FY31 aims to bring down the debt-to-GDP ratio to a range of 47.5-52 per cent from 57.1 per cent in FY25

Budget 2025-26: Balancing prudence with growth for a resilient economy

The budget underscores the government's belief that infrastructure is the bedrock of sustained growth

Will work out measures to help industry address non-tariff barriers: Goyal

The commerce and finance ministries are working as a team to see which are the sectors that require maximum support in terms of availability of capital, technology upgradation, marketing

A blueprint for Viksit Bharat: Budget 2025 focuses on growth, reforms

The Finance Minister has also been cognizant of the need to undertake regulatory reforms that are needed to ensure that the economy does not get bogged down and steams ahead

Budget 2025: Govt allows 100% FDI in insurance, easing foreign entry

The jury is divided on whether this move has led to the expected inflow of investments

Budget 2025: We've responded to the voice of the people, says FM Sitharaman

We continue to place emphasis on the multiplier effect that capital expenditure done by the government has shown, said FM Sitharaman

Govt introduces new compliance requirements for crypto-asset transactions

Under the proposed framework, any prescribed reporting entity dealing in crypto-assets will be required to furnish transaction details within a specified period

Budget 2025-26: Operationalising the trade route to economic growth

It would have been better had the government gone in for across-the-board Customs duty rationalisation instead of picking and choosing sectors across the board

Union Budget 2025-26: A blueprint for sustainability and certainty

Anticipating US action on tariffs, India seems to have made the first move by revamping its tariff structure by reducing the slabs to eight rates