RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 5.15%
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday kept the benchmark rate of interest unchanged at 5.15 per cent in...
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Budgetary blues haunt education sector
New Delhi: The education sector doesn't have much to talk about, so far as allocations in the latest Budget document...
Meagre rise in defence allocation to hit critical purchases
New Delhi: The Defence Ministry coffer gets a 5.83 per cent more money in Union Budget 2020-2021 compared with the...
Railways gets Rs 70,000 cr in budget, salary remains headache
New Delhi: Railways has got a budgetary allocation of Rs 70,000 crore and the highest-ever outlay for capital expenditure amounting...
FM quotes Tamil poetess in Budget speech
Chennai: After Thiruvalluvar and Pisirandaiyar it was the turn of Tamil saint-poetess Avvaiyar to be quoted by Union Finance Minister...
High flowing couplets in Nirmala’s budget do little to ease economic woes
New Delhi: It was an unusually long 2 hours, 41 minutes Budget speech by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, where she...
AIIEA to protest against LIC disinvestment
Chennai: Opposing the government's decision to list Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) through an initial public offering (IPO), the...
Govt sets Rs 2.1 lakh cr disinvestment target for FY21
New Delhi: The government has set a divestment target of Rs 2.1 lakh crore for FY21 on the back of...
Budget 2020: IDBI Bank to be privatized post Govt exit
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday the government would sell its entire stake in IDBI Bank to...
Income tax rates, slabs changed; those earning up to Rs 15 lakh benefit
New Delhi: In a major relief to middle class, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has proposed to cut income tax rates...