New Delhi: Union government Saturday unveiled several big-ticket plans for poll-bound Bihar in the FY26 Budget, which include setting up of a makahana board, a greenfield airport as well as financial support for Western Koshi Canal Project in the Mithilanchal region of the state. In...
Mumbai: Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended flat in a special trading session Saturday as investors saw little coming in from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for retail investors and the overall markets in the Union Budget. But, buying in consumption-related sectors after Sitharaman exempted annual...
New Delhi: Individuals having an annual income of Rs 24 lakh or more can hope to save of Rs 1.10 lakh in income tax, while those earning Rs 12 lakh will have to pay no tax, benefiting to the tune of Rs 80,000 from next...
New Delhi: If budgetary proposals are anything to go by, the decadal census is unlikely to be carried out in 2025 as well with a meagre Rs 574.80 crore allocated for the exercise in the Budget presented Saturday. A meeting of the Union Cabinet December...
New Delhi: For every rupee in the government coffer, the biggest pie of 66 paise will come from direct and indirect taxes, according to the Union Budget 2025-26 documents. Around 24 paise will come from borrowings and other liabilities, 9 paise from non-tax revenue like...
New Delhi: In a historic move, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her 8th consecutive Union Budget Saturday, with a focus on driving growth through four key sectors: Agriculture, MSMEs, Investment, and Exports. In a major relief for taxpayers, Sitharaman announced that individuals earning up to...
New Delhi: Union Health Ministry has been allocated Rs 99,858.56 crore in the Budget 2025-2026, an around 11 per cent hike over the Rs 89,974.12 crore in the budget (revised estimates) of 2024-2025 with the government announcing setting up daycare cancer centres at all district...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday presented Union Budget 2025-26, envisaging an expenditure of Rs 50,65,345 crore, an increase of 7.4 per cent over the current fiscal. The 2024-25 expenditure (Revised Estimates) is Rs 47.16 lakh crore. According to Budget documents, Rs 5,41,850.21 crore...
New Delhi: The Union Budget 2025-26 has allocated more than Rs 1,400 crore to the law ministry to meet carry forward expenditure for holding the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and purchase of new electronic voting machines for the Election Commission. The legislative department in the...
New Delhi: The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has received Rs 13,611 crore in the Union Budget announced Saturday, while the allocation for disability welfare now stands at Rs 1,275 crore. This is a 35.75 per cent rise in allocation over the revised estimate...
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