PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar used his party’s state executive committee meeting Saturday to further consolidate his ties with ally BJP.Addressing the meeting, Nitish, who is JDU national president, not only praised PM Narendra Modi, Union minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda for financial assistance Bihar got in Union Budget, but also said…
Representative Image After the sharp reduction in import duty announced in the Union Budget, the revenues of organised gold jewellery retailers will increase 22-25 per cent this fiscal (year-on-year) – a solid 500-600 basis points (bps) more than the 17-19 per cent expected earlier, a report showed on Monday. The incremental growth will be driven…
Representative Image Domestic gold prices have risen by 10 per cent on a year-to-date basis on the back of the strength in global gold prices, which have surged by 18 per cent year-to-date, driven by robust central bank purchases, heightened geopolitical risks, and growing expectations of a monetary policy pivot from the US Federal Reserve,…
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the government is planning an Enforcement Directorate raid on him following his recent ‘Chakravyuh speech’ in the Parliament during the discussion on the Union Budget. The Congress MP said he will wait for the central probing agency with open arms after ED ‘insiders’ informed…
MUMBAI: In a win for the scientific community, the finance ministry has rolled back a customs duty hike levied on lab chemicals. In the recent Union budget, government had hiked customs duty on laboratory chemicals from 10 per cent to 150 per cent , throwing research budgets astray.TOI, on July 31, had reported that customs…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi was misleading the country on the sensitive issue of national security and the govt’s Agnipath initiative, and offered to make a statement in Parliament to clarify the issues.Singh was speaking after Rahul’s speech in Lok Sabha on the Union Budget, as…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday countered the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi‘s charge over “no SC, ST, and OBC” in ‘halwa ceremony‘ of this year with “Gandhi legacy“.Minutes after Rahul Gandhi’s fierce attack on the Modi government 3.0 over the Union budget, BJP IT head cell head…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Wednesday slammed Congress and other opposition parties for criticising the Union budget, saying that it revealed their political frustration and negative attitude towards “some backward states” that need special focus and assistance for development.BJP spokesperson and former Rajya Sabha MP G V L Narasimha Rao said Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led govt’s…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Wednesday upped his ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accused him of saving the government rather than the nation through the Union Budget.Taking to X, Stalin said, “In protest of the exclusion of several states, except for a few, in the Union Budget report, MPs…
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday criticised the BJP government, labeling the Union Budget as a ‘Kursi Bachao’ Budget.Rahul Gandhi said that the Budget undermines the federal structure of India. “This budget is an attack on the dignity of the federal structure of India. In the greed to save…
