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...
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FM moots 16-point plan to revive agri, allied sectors
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday mooted a 16-point plan to revive the agriculture and allied sectors....
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...
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...
Budget proposes Rs 8,000 crore boost for quantum tech
New Delhi: Giving a huge boost to adoption of emerging technologies, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday proposed to provide...
Budget 2020 is woven around 3 prominent themes: FM
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated Rs 69000 crore apart from Rs 6400 crore for PM Jan Aushadhi...
Scheme to spur mobile phone, semiconductor manufacturing soon
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said a scheme on encourage manufacturing of mobile phones, semiconductor packaging and...
Govt committed to doubling farmers’ income by 2022: Sitharaman
New Delhi: Emphasising on doubling the farm income of farmers across the country by 2022, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman...
Loans given to Tom, Dick, Harry, Jija, Bhatija during UPA-II: FM
New Delhi: Commercial banks gave loans to every Tom, Dick, Harry, 'Jija' (brother-in-law) and 'Bhatija' (nephew) during the UPA-II regime, leaving...
‘Nirmala Sitharaman was my contemporary in JNU’: Abhijit Banerjee
New Delhi: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has said that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was his contemporary in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)...
