The best clue to the politics of this Budget? The acronym emblazoned on the backdrop of Nirmala Sitharaman‘s post-Budget presser. First letters of ten different ‘priorities’ made up that acronym – EMPLOYMENT.Fresh from an where BJP lost its single party majority in part because many voters were unhappy with the lack of decent paying jobs,…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister announced on Tuesday that his party would boycott the NITI Aayog meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The chief minister said that this move is aimed at condemning the Union Budget, which he claimed “ignored” the southern state. and as a response, he said that DMK MPs will…
NEW DELHI: After Finance Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Modi 3.0 budget on Tuesday, co founder of BharatPe Ashneer Grover weighed in on the Union Budget and labelled it as “boring, lifeless and meaningless”. The former panelist of Shark Tank India claiming that “another Ambani wedding function would be of more value,” insinuated that the Budget…
Latest income tax slabs FY 2024-25: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has changed the income tax slabs effective FY 2024-25 under the new income tax regime as announced in Budget 2024. The standard deduction under the new income tax regime has also been hiked from the present Rs 50,000 to Rs 75,000. According to FM Nirmala…
NEW DELHI: The Union Budget for 2024-25 allocates Rs 1.48 lakh crore for education, employment, and skilling across the country. Presenting the Budget in the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman emphasized its focus on employment, skilling, MSMEs, and the middle class.Sitharaman announced that the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana has been extended for five…
As the nation eagerly awaits the presentation of the Union Budget by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, her choice of saree has also become a topic of interest. Each year, Sitharaman’s saree selection for the budget presentation garners attention and admiration from the public.For her record-breaking seventh Union Budget presentation, the finance minister opted for a…
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is all set to present the first budget of Modi 3.0 in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Union budget 2024-25 will be her seventh presentation of the budget as finance minister. With this, she will also break the record of Morarji Desai’s six budget presentations.Desai, who was the country’s Finance…
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman‘s seventh Budget will do a tight rope walk as she looks to strike a balance between the need to spend more on social sector schemes amid calls from allies for additional assistance to states, while seeking to address demands for a reduction in personal income tax and yet ensuring…
NASHIK/KALYAN: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday claimed Congress had drawn up a plan to spend 15% of the Union Budget exclusively on Muslims when it was in office and said it now plans to carry forward the same “agenda” to “appease its votebank” and divide it into a “Muslim budget” and a “Hindu budget”.“Congress us…
NEW DELHI: The Council for Leather Exports (CLE) has asked the government to provide fiscal incentives in the Budget such as the PLI scheme and reinstatement of import duty exemption on certain goods to boost manufacturing and exports. The council has also suggested the government to consider permitting the export of all value-added leathers, including…
