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Customs duty on footwear, furniture increased
Updated : 6 years, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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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Data Centre Parks policy soon for private firms to leverage power of data
Updated : 6 years, 4 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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Long talk, without any plan of action, says Digambar Kamat on Budget 2020-
Updated : 6 years, 4 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 2020-21 aims at energising Indian economy
Updated : 6 years, 4 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, 4 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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Gradually all exemptions should go, income tax rate should be low: Sithara
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that government has come up with a new scheme of personal income tax while retaining the old structure as its intention is to reduce the rates and simplify the structure.
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Budget 2020 pegs total expenditure at Rs 30.42 lakh crore
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The total expenditure has been pegged at Rs 30.42 lakh crore in the Union Budget for 2020-21, keeping in mind the government's commitment towards various schemes and the need for improvement in the quality of life.
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Sitharaman proposes measures to improve Railways infrastructure
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Enlisting the achievements of Railways within 100 days of assumption of the current government, Finance Minister Sitharaman has proposed five measures for optimisation of costs including setting up a large solar power capacity alongside the rail tracks, on the
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Union Budget has futuristic vision, Centre took steps against tax terroris
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said that the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today has a futuristic vision and the government has taken a strong step against the tax terrorism.
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PM congratulates Sitharaman, her team for presenting budget having 'vision
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her team for presenting the 'first Budget of the decade that has vision as well as action'.
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