Page 14 - Latest Updates on Budget 2025-26

Budget: Execution at grassroots key to unlocking India's growth, future

The focus on promoting medical tourism under the "Heal in India" initiative is a noteworthy development to position the country as a global destination for medical care

Union Budget 2025-26: Igniting growth engines for 'Viksit Bharat'

For India to grow rapidly it needs to create more jobs and opportunities for the youth

Charting a new growth path: Budget pushes gender budgeting to 8.9% in FY26

A new scheme will support 500,000 women, SC, and ST first-time entrepreneurs with term loans of up to Rs 2 crore during the next five years

Budget 2025: Projects worth Rs 4.6 trn added to pipeline, says Vaishnaw

Work on 100 Amrit Bharat, 17500 general coaches, 200 Vande Bharat trains to start

Budget disappointing as no provision of MSP guarantee, say farmer leaders

Punjab farmer leaders on Saturday said the Union Budget was "disappointing" for the farming community as it did not give a legal guarantee on minimum support price for crops. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday presented her eighth budget in Parliament in Delhi. Sitharaman announced six new agricultural schemes while increasing the subsidised Kisan Credit Card loan limit to Rs 5 lakh from the existing Rs 3 lakh, which will impact 7.7 crore farmers, fishermen and dairy farmers. Farmer leader Abhimanyu Kohar said raising the credit card loan limit will increase the debt burden further on farmers. The agrarian crisis will not be resolved by making farmers more indebted but by making farmers self-reliant by legally guaranteeing MSP on crops by passing a law. Protesting farmers have been demanding a law that legally assures the sale of farm produce at least at the MSP. Kohar said the Budget failed to live up to the expectations of the farming community. He said the ...

Union Budget 2025-26: Accelerating AI-driven digital transformation

AI is no longer a futuristic concept - it is an economic multiplier

Budget 2025: FM promises intervention in 100 districts to boost crop yields

Credit limit on KCC raised to Rs 5 lakh; farm Budget at Rs 1.71 trn, 22% more than FY25RE

Jobs & security: Gig workers to skilling, Union Budget's broad strokes

Health coverage for 10 million gig workers, new centres of excellence, more seats at IITs, medical colleges among key measures

Budget 2025: Ulip tax confusion sends insurance stocks into tailspin

Changes positive for industry, clarify experts; growing appeal of new tax regime may act as headwind for sector

Budget 2025: FM takes 'transformative reforms' route to boost growth

The domains include regulatory reforms, the power sector, urban development, mining, the financial sector, and taxation

Budget 2025-26: Is the new Income-Tax Bill a step towards 'Nyaya'?

The reduction in TDS rates and rationalisation of TCS provisions are welcome steps

More disposable income in hands: TDS threshold for senior citizens doubled

Taxpayers can now file updated returns for four years instead of the previous two

Budget 2025: Tax-free income limit under new regime rises to Rs 12 lakh

Old tax system remains unchanged

Budget 2025: FM Sitharaman doles out gifts to boost activity at IFSC

Tax concessions extended till 2030; sops for relocation of MFs, ETFs, boost ODI issuance

Budget 2025: Markets flat after swing, tax relief lifts consumption stocks

Capex worries weigh on infra firms

Budget 2025: Sops could reverse underperformance in consumer stocks

The real estate indices were up 3-4% as gains on personal taxation front coupled with measures related to affordable housing, stuck projects and relaxations in TDS limits found favour with investors

Charting a new growth path: Budget projects non-tax streams poised to rise

Except in FY18 and FY19, receipts from disinvestment have remained well below the Budget targets

Non-tax revenue from telecom pegged 33% lower at Rs 82,443 cr for FY26

The non-tax revenue collection from the telecom sector has been pegged 33 per cent lower at Rs 82,443 crore for the coming fiscal, according to the Budget documents, which also placed the revised FY25 realisations a tad higher than originally expected at the beginning of the fiscal. The revised estimates for FY25 place revenue from telecom (under the head 'other communications services') marginally higher at Rs 1.23 lakh crore against the originally-expected 1.20 lakh crore. The estimates for FY26, however, have been set at Rs 82,442.84 crore, which is 33 per cent lower than FY25. Asked about the reason for estimates being pegged lower for FY26, Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said the revenue from telecom that goes straight to the consolidated fund of India is mainly from two heads, the AGR dues and spectrum auctions. "In the last two years, we have auctioned a huge amount of spectrum, with 5G coming into play. And it's only when that spectrum gets saturated that you will se

Union Budget 2025: Tax breaks for SWFs in infra extended by 5 years

Investments in unlisted debentures to be treated as long-term capital gains

Budget 2025: Relief on 2 self-occupied properties, without riders

Annual limit of Rs 2.4 lakh for TDS on rent increased to Rs 6 lakh