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Budget 2018: Banking sector hopeful of positive reforms
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday increased the disinvestment target to Rs. 80,000 crore for the financial year 2018-19, after which many banking institutions roped in their comments.
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Budget '18: Customs Duty increased on mobile phones
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): In their first Union Budget, after the roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, made a calibrated departure from the underlying policy in the last two decades, wherein the trend largely was to reduce customs duty.
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Budget will benefit Indian Aviation sector: Spicejet
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Budget speech highlighted that India's airport capacity will increase by over five times.
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Healthcare startups hail decisions made in Budget 2018-19
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): With agriculture being a key focus in this year's Union Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday announced a number of schemes and measures that are expected to benefit the agriculture sector.
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Budget '18: 372 specific business reforms being implemented through states
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley while presenting the Union Budget 2018-19 in Parliament on Thursday stated that to carry business reforms for 'Ease of Doing Business' deeper and in every state of the country, the government has identified 372 specific business r
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Budget '18: Govt aims to double farmers' income
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday, while announcing Union Budget 2018-19 in Parliament, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a clarion call to double farmers' income by 2022 when India celebrates its 75th year of Independence.
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API applauds Govt.'s Budget focus on education, digitalization
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the most awaited budget which started off with a positive note on how the Indian economy has reversed course with GDP at 6.3 percent signalling a turnaround of the economy.
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Defence Budget hiked by 7.81 %
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget for the financial year 2018-19 in the Parliament today. Out of the total Rs 24,42,213 crore outlay, Rs 2,95,511.41 crore has been embarked for the Defence sector.
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MoS Gohain assures fast development of Railways
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Minister of State (MoS) Railways Rajen Gohain on Thursday said that the Railways Budget introduced as part of the Budget proposals for 2018-19 by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley includes everything and assured fast development of the sector.
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Budget 2018: Key takeaways for women
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday announced a number of schemes and measures that are expected to benefit women in the country.
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Digital India programme receives double allocation in Budget
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Giving a major fillip to the Digital India Movement, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday announced double allocation for Digital India programme to Rs. 3073 crore in 2018-19.
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Taxpayer base expanding but turnover not encouraging: Jaitley
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday claimed that although there has been an increase in the taxpayer base, the turnover is 'not encouraging'.
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