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New Delhi: The Union Budget for 2019-20 has proposed an increase in the import duty on gold and a hike in the excise duty on petrol and diesel. Here's a list of all those items which are set to become expensive and a few which will become…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is “one of hope” and “it is a budget that will boost India’s development in the 21st Century”. The Budget, the PM said, will…

Presenting her maiden Union Budget on Friday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government will introduce ‘Har Ghar Jal’ to provide potable water to all rural houses by 2024. Sitharaman told Parliament that the newly-constituted…

New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices are set to increase as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday announced to levy a special additional excise duty as well as a road infrastructure cess of Rs 1 each per litre on petrol and diesel to…

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday proposed making PAN and Aadhaar cards interchangeable for ease of filing income tax returns. Reading out her maiden Budget speech in Parliament, the Finance Minister said, “More than 120 crore…

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s parents are in Parliament to watch her first Budget speech on Friday, NDTV reported. Savitri and Narayanan Sitharaman arrived in a separate car in Parliament. The Finance Minister is expected to…

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday unveiled a Union Budget aimed at boosting infrastructure in several sectors, the first since the Narendra Modi government returned for a second term in power, Reuters reported. Here are the…

The key highlights of the Interim Budget 2019-20 presented by the Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, Railways & Coal, Piyush Goyal in Parliament are as follows: Farmers 12 crore small and marginal farmers to be provided…

New Delhi: Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that salaried employers with up to 5 lakh will be exempted from paying any tax. He made the populous announcement while presenting the Interim Budget in Parliament. This was…

New Delhi: Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the Narendra Modi Government on Friday made a big ticket budget announcement to woo the farming class with a direct benefit transfer scheme for them and address the agrarian crisis. To provide…