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Nothing tangible, only 'pompous announcements' in Union Budget, says Capt
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Slamming the Union Budget as high on 'pomposity' and low on tangibles, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday said the economy was clearly not a priority for the BJP-led Central Government, which was too busy pursuing its negative
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Budget gives new hope that India will face headwinds with confidence, says
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Terming the Union Budget 2020-21 as "ambitious", Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday said that the Budget gives a new hope that the country will face the headwinds with confidence and will march ahead.
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FM spoke of everything but the Budget: Sitaram Yechury
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Reacting to the Union Budget 2020-21, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury on Saturday said that the Union Finance Minister spoke of "everything but the Budget" in her two-and-a-half-hour long speech. He alleged the Minister failed to address the "real issues facing t
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'Hollow person like Rahul Gandhi will find everything hollow,' says Dharme
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday hit out at former Congress president for calling the budget 'hollow' and said that hollow person like Rahul Gandhi will find everything hollow.
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Goa Shiv Sena slams union budget over 'lack-of state-specific allocations'
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Shiv Sena Goa Vice President Rakhi Prabhudesai Naik on Saturday criticised the union budget over the allocations made for Goa while alleging that the Centre had "specifically left out the state".
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Mamata slams Centre for proposed divestment from LIC
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday slammed the central government for proposing to sell a part of its shares in LIC, saying that it is a plan to "ambush the heritage and legacy of the public institutions".
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Economic development for all entails giving more space to private sector f
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The economic development for all, which is one of the three prominent themes of the Union Budget, entails pervasive economic reforms and yielding more space to the private sector to ensure higher productivity and greater efficiency.
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Budget will prove as a milestone for new India: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Saturday said the budget 2020-21 presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will prove a milestone in the development of a new India.
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Budget to provide relief to poor, farmers: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said that the focus of the Modi government is to give poor people and farmers relief and thus the budget has allocated Rs 2,83,000 crore for agriculture.
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Customs duty on footwear, furniture increased
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): The Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday proposed to raise customs duty on items like footwear and furniture in her Budget speech.
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Policy for Data Centre Parks soon: Sitharaman
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday termed 'data as the new oil' while asserting that Analytics, Fintech and internet of things (IoT) are changing the way we deal with our lives.
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Public-private partnership encouraged in budget, says NITI Aayog CEO Amita
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog said that the Union Budget 2020-21 focuses on increasing the contribution of the private sector in the growth of the economy by giving importance to public-private partnership (PPP) Model.
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