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In this image provided by PMO, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during a post-budget webinar on agriculture and rural prosperity, in Delhi, on March 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: PMO via PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (March 1, 2025) called for expeditious implementation of the budgetary proposals for agriculture and rural development, urging…
Of every ₹100 that the Union government collects as tax, ₹10-11 is collected as cesses and surcharges, a trend unchanged since the pandemic year 2020-21. Also, the government spends ₹1-2 in collecting every ₹100 of tax; this is called the cost of collection. The amount collected as cesses and surcharges, along with the cost of…
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra and Directors during the 613th Meeting of Central Board of Directors (CBD) of the RBI in New Delhi on February 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday (February 8, 2025) said she is likely to introduce the new…
In the latest budget speech, the Indian Finance Minister reiterated an earlier-articulated goal for Nuclear Energy capacity—to reach 100 GW by 2047. Where are we now? At 8 GW. Does the goal sound more than just a bit ambitious? In this episode, we will learn a tiny bit of nuclear science as well as about…
A worker cleans the floor of a showroom during a presentation of the Union Budget 2025-26, in Mumbai, on February 1. | Photo Credit: PTI It would not be an exaggeration to say that this is the biggest tax cut that the middle class has ever got in any Union Budget. To be sure, the…
File picture of Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday (February 3, 2025) said funds to railway projects in West Bengal have been increased three times since Mamata Banerjee was in charge of the Ministry of Railways. “The allocation which was in Mamata Didi’s (Banerjee) time…
Budget Session Day 3 Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reply to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address. He will address the Lok Sabha a day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi raised the India-China border row, a US invite to the PM, Make In India and claims of voters being added to…
Budget Session Day 3 Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reply to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address. He will address the Lok Sabha a day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi raised the India-China border row, a US invite to the PM, Make In India and claims of voters being added to…
Union Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Centre’s decision to significantly slash the income tax payer’s burden was aimed at addressing some “angst” that the government had noticed in recent months as well as to give a fillip to the economy’s weakening growth impulses with a broad-based boost to demand,…
Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Labour Ministry got its highest ever allocation in this year’s Union Budget and the increase in funding will help focus on the new employment generation scheme, Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Sunday (February 2, 2025). The “record ₹32,646 crore” allocation is almost 80% higher…
