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Pakistan's cotton sector under pressure as taxes and policy failures push
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
Farmers in South Punjab and Sindh face rising taxes, high input costs, and market uncertainty ahead of the cotton sowing season. Agricultural groups are urging the government to remove GST on cottonseed products, warning that continued financial pressure could further reduce cotton cultivati
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Disappointing: BJP MP Basavraj Bommai criticises Karnataka state budget
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
Speaking to ANI, Bommai said that even after taking loans worth Rs 1.32 lakh crore and imposing an additional tax burden of Rs 25,000 crore, the budget still reflects a deficit of around Rs 32,000 crore.
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Gujarat Budget pegged at Rs 4.08 lakh crore; Focus on social security, inf
Updated : 3 weeks, 3 days ago IST
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Wednesday said the Gujarat Budget for 2026-27, with an outlay of Rs 4.08 lakh crore reflecting a 10.2 per cent increase over the previous year, is based on five pillars, social security, human resource development, infrastructure facilities, econo
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Budget 2025-26 Signals Strong Push for Manufacturing, MSMEs and Inclusive
Updated : 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 12: The Union Budget 2025-26 presents a broad-based growth roadmap aimed at strengthening India's manufacturing ecosystem, empowering MSMEs, accelerating rural development, and easing the tax burden on citizens. With a clear focus on productivity, innovation, and
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"High GST rates have reduced consumers' ability to spend": Retailer
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
Chaitanya explained, "High GST rates have reduced consumers' ability to spend, leading to a noticeable decline in demand. This fall in consumption has directly impacted retail businesses, particularly small traders who depend on steady daily sales." He noted that while the Central Governm
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Delhi: Commissioner Ashwani Kumar unveils MCD budget; major Ease-of-Doing-
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
"This budget reflects MCD's unwavering commitment to better service delivery, environmental sustainability, and citizen convenience, through MCD's initiative aimed at providing ease of doing business and ease of living--without increasing the tax burden. We are working consistently to ens
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"Trying to fill its coffers instead of bringing relief to people": JP Nadd
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
BJP National President and Union Minister JP Nadda on Wednesday said that while the GST Bachat Utsav brought relief, the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh is increasing cement prices instead of lowering them, thereby burdening people and trying to fill its coffers amid natural disas
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Congress ran govt only from Delhi, ignored Northeast: PM Modi
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
"Generally, the first rays of the sun fall on Arunachal Pradesh, but years have gone in trying to getting the rays of development here. I have come here before 2014 too, stayed along with you. Nature has given Arunachal so much, the land, the people, capability, there is so much. But the peo
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Lower GST rates will ease tax burdens and empower MSMEs: FICCI CASCADE
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
GST 2.0 is set to almost triple the share of items taxed at 5 per cent, rising from 54 consumption categories under GST 1.0 to 149 categories under GST 2.0, as per a recent study by FICCI CASCADE. For rural households, the share of exempt and merit goods in their consumption basket will rise
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"Huge boost to country's economy," Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis lauds
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday welcomed the GST reforms, calling them second-generation changes that will ease the tax burden on people and give a major boost to the country's economy.
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AIDCF Calls for GST Relief to Safeguard Cable TV Industry
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 27: The All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF), the apex body representing India's Digital Multi-System Operators (MSOs), has appealed to the Government of India for a reduction in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate on Cable TV services from the existing 18%
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Maharashtra CM Fadnavis hoists tricolour flag, attends hoisting ceremony o
Updated : 7 months ago IST
The Maharashtra Chief Minister extended heartfelt gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "constantly working to relieve the tax burden of the common man."
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