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New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to maintain key policy rates at the present levels, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Friday. Saying that the “need of the hour is to back growth”, Das informed that the repo rate…

New Delhi: Health emerged as the topmost priority for the Narendra Modi government as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed more than doubling of healthcare spending in the Union Budget she presented on Monday. At the same time, the…

New Delhi: Lauding the “sabka” Budget presented in Parliament on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has farmers and villages at its heart. The PM also said this year’s Budget focuses on the ease of living and doing business as well as…

New Delhi: With Bengal going to polls in just over two months from now, the state featured prominently in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday. Sitharaman read out her Budget speech wearing a ‘laal…

New Delhi: For those above75 years of age with pension as their only source of income, the government has granted exemption from filing income tax returns. “We shall reduce the compliance burden on our senior citizens who are 75 years of…

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced Rs 1.1 lakh crore to Indian Railways. “The Budget will provide Rs 1.1 lakh crore to Indian Railways in FY-22 of which Rs 1.07 lakh crore is for capital expenditure,” the minister…

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has started reading out her Union Budget 2021 speech in Parliament on Monday. The finance minister started the Budget presentation amid sloganeering from the Opposition benches. Sitharaman…

New Delhi: In a first, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will read out her speech from a tablet as she will table a paperless Union Budget in Parliament. On Monday morning, the minister was seen carrying a tablet in a red sleeve,…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the upcoming Union Budget was the next in a series of mini-budgets presented by Finance Minister Nimala Sitharaman in 2020. “This is the Budget Session. For the first time in India’s…

New Delhi: The Union budget will be presented in Parliament on February 1, NDTV reported sources as saying. President Ram Nath Kovind will address both the Houses, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on January 29. The budget session of Parliament…