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Budget 2019: Direct tax collection shoots up to Rs 12 lakh crore from Rs 6
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Direct tax collections have moved up from Rs 6.38 lakh crore in 2013-14 to almost Rs 12 lakh crore while the tax base swelled from 3.79 crore to 6.85 crore, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday.
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FM announces higher allocation for MNREGA for rural job creation
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI) In a bid to woo farmers, poor and the marginalised, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday announced higher allocation of funds for their benefit.
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Defence budget pegged at Rs 3 lakh crore
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The defence Budget for the financial year 2019-20 was on Friday pegged at Rs 3 lakh crore, up by around RS 4,500 crore from the previous fiscal.
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Budget 2019: Rs 1 crore loan can be obtained under 59 minutes: Finance Min
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Rs 1 crore loan can be obtained under 59 minutes, said Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday while presenting the interim Budget for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha.
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Govt announces new scheme to give Rs 6000 annually to 12 cr marginal farme
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The government on Friday announced a new scheme in the agriculture sector which will entail payment of Rs 6,000 annually to each of the 12 crore marginal farmers in the country.
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Budget 2019: Fiscal deficit brought down to 3.4 pc, says Finance Minister
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, while presenting the interim Budget 2019 in the Lok Sabha on Friday, said that fiscal deficit has been brought down to 3.4 per cent in the revised estimates for 2018-19.
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Govt laid foundation for sustained growth, better quality of life in last
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The government has laid the foundation for sustained growth and better quality of life in the last five years in its endeavour to make ‘New India’ by 2022, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday as he presented interim Budget in the
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TDP protests against Centre over special status to Andhra
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 01 (ANI): Ahead of the presentation of the interim budget, the Telegu Desam Party (TDP) on Friday staged a protest against the BJP-led central government for not granting the special category status to the state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Let's have another round of demonetisation: Chidambaram
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Taking a swipe at the government, Congress leader and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday alleged the NDA government while "revising upwards" the GDP growth rates had inadvertently also upped the unemployment figures.
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Union Cabinet approves interim Budget 2019-20
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The Union Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the interim Budget 2019-20 on Friday.
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Congress' Manish Tewari claims Budget leak
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Minutes before the Interim Budget was to be tabled by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, Congress National spokesperson Manish Tewari on Friday alleged the Budget has been "leaked".
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Govt didn't perform in 5 years, what will they do now, questions Cong
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday alleged that the current central government has not done any good for the common man till date and nothing better is expected from the interim budget to be presented before the Parliament today.
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