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"No new custom duties to help imports...India trying to integrate in globa
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
India is trying to integrate itself into global supply chains and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman not announcing change in customs duties "is very warmly welcomed", said an expert who has been working on US-India relations for over 25 years
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"Judicious and visionary..." Former CEA KV Subramaniam on interim budget
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
"...Overall, that is how I would assess it - judicious on the fiscal front, non-populace because it is more of the same and visionary because many other steps on innovation and CapEx etc." said KV Subramanian - Executive Director of the IMF and former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government
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"One of the shortest speeches...not much came out of it": Shashi Tharoor o
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
After the announcement of the Interim Budget 2024-25 on Thursday, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor slammed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and said that not "very much came out of it" and that she used "rhetorical language."
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Budget 2024: Government to lay white paper on economy - then and now
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The government will lay a 'White Paper' on the table of the Parliament to look at where the country was till 2014 and where it is now, to draw lessons from the "mismanagement of those years".
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The interim budget's emphasis on innovation and growth is promising: Geeta
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 1: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Interim Budget 2024-25 at the Parliament today, a day after the commencement of the Budget Session. The interim budget provided estimates of the government's expenditure, revenue, fiscal deficit, fin
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Interim budget addresses aspirations of youth, women: Union Minister Meena
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Union Minister Meenakashi Lekhi said that the 2024 interim budget has addressed the aspirations of youth and women and given importance to science, innovation, and technology.
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"Interim budget focused on poor, women, youth and farmers," says MP CM Moh
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
"Under the leadership of PM Modi, all departments are making efforts to take the country forward. The interim budget was presented today and it is focused on the poor, women, youth and farmers. This budget has highlighted PM Modi's pledge for the welfare of these categories," CM Yadav sai
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"Sounded like election speech": Sachin Pilot on Finance Minister's Budget
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Terming Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Interim budget speech on Thursday an "election speech", Congress leader Sachin Pilot said that there was nothing new in the Budget speech and no measures were announced to provide relief to the common masses "who are facing the brunt of rising
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Rising population growth and demographic changes pose challenges to goal o
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
With a focus on 'Viksit Bharat' and 'Amrit Kaal' by 2047, Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday expressed that rising population growth and demographic changes pose challenges to the goals of 'Viksit Bharat'.
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Budget 2024: Five integrated aquaparks to be setup
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
In a bid to boost the fisheries sector, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech on Thursday announced setting up five integrated aquaparks.
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FICCI, Corporates hail interim Budget, say its a clear continuum towards V
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The Interim Budget recognizes innovation as a key driver for growth through the introduction of a significant corpus of Rs 1 lakh crore for offering a fifty-year interest-free loan to scale up R&D in sunrise domains, said FICCI President Anish Shah.
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Skill India Mission has trained 1.4 crore youth: FM Nirmala Sitharaman
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
"The government of India established 3000 new ITIs. A large number of new institutions of higher learning, namely 7 IITs, 16 IIITs, 7 IIMs, 15 AIIMS and 390 universities, have been set up." added the Finance Minister.
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