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  Union Budget 2023: What are the Budget expectations of EV sector

  News | January 24, 2023 15:40 IST

  Union Budget 2023: What are the Budget expectations of EV sector? Know every detail here

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  Union Budget 2023: 10 things related to the budget you might be not knowing | Nirmala Sitharaman

  News | January 24, 2023 15:29 IST

  Union Budget पेश होने वाला है। सभी की निगाहें टिकी हैं कि इस बार बजट में क्या मिलने वाला है। लेकिन हम आपको देश के बजट की कुछ ऐसी बातें बताने जा रहे हैं जो निश्चित तौर पर आप नहीं जानते होंगे।

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  Union Budget 2023: What hope did women have with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman?

  News | January 24, 2023 14:42 IST

  Union Budget 2023: Women have a lot of expectations from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Inflation has hit the kitchen the most.

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  Union Budget 2023 | Know how the budget is prepared | Nirmala Sitharaman

  News | January 24, 2023 15:03 IST

  The budget is going to be presented soon. How the budget is prepared, this question will definitely be in your mind. Know here.

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  Centre releases Rs 95,082 cr to states as tax devolution for January

  Business | January 20, 2022 16:52 IST

  Poll bound states of Uttar Pradesh will receive Rs 17,056.66 crore, Uttarakhand Rs 1,063.02 crore, Punjab will receive Rs 1,718.16 crore and Goa is going to get Rs 367.02 crore along with all other states.  

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  Finance Minister Sitharaman to launch National Monetisation Pipeline on Monday

  India | August 22, 2021 17:09 IST

  The National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) comprises a four-year pipeline of the Central Government's brownfield infrastructure assets. Besides providing visibility to investors, NMP will also serve as a medium-term roadmap for the Asset Monetisation initiative of the government, said an official statement.  

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  Need complete trust between industry, govt to sustain growth amid Covid situation: Sitharaman

  India | April 20, 2021 14:49 IST

  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said there should be complete trust between the industry and the government to sustain growth amid the COVID-19 situation.  

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  FM Sitaraman informs of comparing 'COVID-19 Economic Package' with packages of other countries

  News | May 23, 2020 19:31 IST

  Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman on the announcement of 'Economic Package' for COVID-19 pandemic said that a comparison was made of all announcements made by different countries to see what their package consisted of.

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  7 compoundable offences dropped as govt moves to decriminalise Companies Act defaults

  Business | May 17, 2020 12:24 IST

  Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced that the government has taken steps to ensure easing of insolvency procedures. Moving further to Decriminalise Companies Act defaults, the government has dropped 7 compoundable offences altogether

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  Direct tax collection up 5 per cent till November: Sitharaman

  Business | December 03, 2019 7:19 IST

  Sitharaman clarified that the objective to reduce corporate tax is only to attract investment, stimulate growth and also to create job opportunities.

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  India still projected as fastest growing economy: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

  Business | November 18, 2019 16:48 IST

  In a written reply, Sitharaman said India's economic growth decelerated but its economy is still the fastest growing among G-20 nations and that the goal of $5 trillion economy will be achieved by 2025.

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  Corporate tax cut 'surgical strike' on negative sentiments in economy

  Business | September 20, 2019 16:51 IST

  The reactions came as the government on Friday slashed the income tax rate for companies by almost 10 percentage points to 25.17 per cent and offered a lower rate to 17.01 per cent for new manufacturing firms to boost economic growth rate from a six-year low by incentivising investments to help create jobs.

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  Rupee rallies 66 paise to 70.68 against USD on FM announcements

  Business | September 20, 2019 11:57 IST

  In a major relief to foreign portfolio investors, FM Nirmala Sitharaman said Super-rich tax will not apply on capital gains arising from sale of any security including derivatives in hands of FPIs.

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  Bank staff to protest outside Parliament against mergers

  India | September 11, 2019 23:06 IST

  All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) General Secretary C.H. Venkatachalam told IANS that the UFBU has decided to a national dharna before Parliament on Sep 20 at 10.30 a.m.

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  Finance Minister to list govt actions in 100 days amid low macro stats

  India | September 10, 2019 13:28 IST

  She will address media on "Furthering Development -- 100 days of bold initiatives, decisive actions of the government".

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  Indian Bank expects to complete merger with Allahabad Bank by March 31

  Business | September 03, 2019 15:31 IST

  Last week, the government announced consolidation of 10 public sector banks into four mega state-owned lenders, including merger of Allahabad Bank with Indian Bank.

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  GST refund: Tax body asks officers to speed up things

  Business | September 02, 2019 16:39 IST

  "We must endeavour to make this refund drive a grand success," CBIC Chairman Pranab K. Das wrote to tax officers across the country.

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  Congress asks government to issue white paper on economy

  India | August 27, 2019 17:04 IST

  Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, Congress leader Anand Sharma said: "India is in a deep financial crisis. The economy is in shambles. All indicators of development are low. And India's GDP is continuously falling."

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  Windfall from RBI to give government ammunition to fight slowdown, boost capex

  Business | August 27, 2019 16:34 IST

  This comes at a time when the economic growth rate has slumped to a five-year low after accelerating in the first few years of Modi 1.0 regime. Consumer spending has slowed, private investment hit a bump, the auto sector is facing the worst crisis in two decades leading to tens of thousands of job losses, real estate sector has seen piling of unsold inventories and fast-moving consumers goods (FMCG) companies have seen a decline in volume growth.

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  Budget 2019: Government to double down to create a new-age skill set

  Technology | July 05, 2019 13:27 IST

  Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitaraman in Budget 2019 said that there is a need to create skilled professionals in the New-Age technology that is fast changing the business landscape for both big and small enterprises.