NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced the Union Budget 2024. Taking a bottoms-up approach, the Budget focused on assuring affordable medicines especially for cancer patients along with reducing custom duty on precious metals like gold, silver to 6% and platinum to 6.5%.Meanwhile, telecom equipments and plastic goods are set to become expensive.Here’s…
Representative image Budget 2024 proposes to cut the customs duty to 6% on Gold and Silver. Moreover, the finance minister has also proposed to reduce customs duty on platinum to 6.4%. Mahendra Luniya, chairman & founder of Vignaharta Gold said that in FY23, India’s gold imports totaled an estimated Rs 2.8 lakh crore and at…
BHUBANESWAR: Government officials and servitors, who opened Ratna Bhandar of Jagannath Temple on Sunday after 46 years, discovered several antique idols crafted from precious metals in the treasury’s inner chamber. These idols were not listed in any previous inventories.“The ancient small idols — perhaps 5 to 7 in number — have turned almost black over…
