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Customs duty on footwear, furniture increased
Updated : 6 years, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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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Budget seeks to strengthen grassroots of economy: Walmart India
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): President and CEO at Walmart India Krish Iyer said on Saturday the Union Budget 2020-21 seeks to strengthen grassroots of the economy with its positive push towards the creation of strong agriculture infrastructure.
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Data Centre Parks policy soon for private firms to leverage power of data
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget 2020-21 on Saturday, made proposals for leveraging data including a policy to enable private sector in building the Data Centre Parks throughout the countries, thus enabling firms to incorp
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Startup giants, tourism industry majors hail Union Budget
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Start-up giants and tourism industry major have hailed the Union Budget 2020-21 terming it a boost to tourism, industry, connectivity, job creation, start-ups, etc.
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Long talk, without any plan of action, says Digambar Kamat on Budget 2020-
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Margao (Goa) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Digambar Kamat, leader of opposition in the Goa assembly, hit out at the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday while claiming that the Minister gave a long talk but no plan of action to back her speech.
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Budget will boost incomes as well as demand and investment, says PM Modi
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the Union Budget 2020-21 presented by his government has been designed to boost income and investment on one hand and demand and consumption on the other.
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Budget 2020-21 aims at energising Indian economy
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The Union Budget 2020-21, which Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented in the Lok Sabha on Saturday, aims at energising the economy of India through a combination of short-term, medium-term, and long term measures.
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Money no substitute for freedom: Chidambaram on funds given to J-K, Ladakh
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): With centre loosening its purse strings for the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, former finance minister, and Congress leader P Chidambaram said that "money is no substitute for freedom".
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Union budget aims to strengthen health sector, infrastructure, medical edu
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has termed the Union budget a pragmatic, holistic and people's budget with special focus on health, medical infrastructure, and medical education.
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CDRI will enhance Climate change adaptation with focus on Disaster Resilie
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday unveiled various proposals in Union Budget 2020-21 related to the Environmental sector, emphasising on the government's aim to enhance climate change adaptation with a focus on Di
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