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Leaders call budget, 'second surgical strike', path to 'New India'
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Allies of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance were unanimous in hailing the interim budget as one which paved a path to a "New India" and with some leaders like Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan even equating it to a "second surgical strike" by the governme
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NE region budget allocation hiked by 21%
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi, February 1 (ANI): The Centre has proposed Rs 58,166 crore budget allocations to the North Eastern region, with an increase of 21 per cent.
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Interim Budget: PM-KISAN draws mixed response from farmers
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Farmers and their concerned organizations across India seem to be divided on the central government’s latest announcement to introduce a new scheme in the agriculture sector which will entail payment of Rs 6,000 annually to each of the 12 crore margin
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Budget 2019: Rs 7,23,000 crore disbursed under Mudra Yojana, says Finance
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The Centre has disbursed Rs 7,23,000 crore against 15.56 crore loans so far, said Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday while presenting the interim Budget for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha.
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Modi govt can only copy paste, has no original ideas: Owaisi
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Launching a scathing attack on the BJP-led central government over the Interim Budget 2019-2020, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday asserted that the Centre does not have any original ideas or a vision and can only
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FICCI terms Interim Budget as ‘Progressive’
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): FICCI on Friday hailed the Interim Budget as ‘Progressive’, saying it addresses the current challenges faced by the economy and outlines the vision for the future.
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Budget 2019: Our government broke the back of back-breaking inflation, say
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that his government has been able to “break the back of back-breaking inflation” in the past around five years, which has now come down to average at 4.6 per cent.
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Union Budget 2019: Indian film industry welcomes Budget
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The Indian film industry has welcomed the central government's announcement of single-window clearance for Indian filmmakers to shoot their films – a provision that was earlier available only to international filmmakers and has hailed the m
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Interim Budget injected lot of 'josh' without losing 'hosh': SpiceJet Chai
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Chairman and Managing Director, SpiceJet, Ajay Singh, on Friday heaped praises on the interim Budget 2019-2020 presented by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal in the Parliament earlier today, saying it is a people's budget that will benefit India's economy and coul
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Financial support to farmers is not “dole” but mark of respect for ‘anna d
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The scheme to give financial support to marginal farmers is “not a dole” or “charity” but a mark of “respect” for the agriculturists who feed the nation, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday, hours after making th
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People's Budget, say CII, FICCI
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India), Feb 1 (ANI): Industry bodies on Friday welcomed the Union Interim Budget for 2019-20 and called it a people's budget which will help the economy to grow.
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Centre gave nothing to AP even in its last budget: Chandrababu Naidu
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Friday accused the BJP-led central government of "betraying" his state by failing to fulfil the assurances made during its bifurcation and said the Interim Budget had nothing on offer for t
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