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Budget 2024 wishlist: Simplify capital gains tax system, tax breathers to middle class, India Inc. tells Revenue Secretary

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Budget 2024 wishlist: Simplify capital gains tax system, tax breathers to middle class, India Inc. tells Revenue Secretary

Full Budget 2024: The full Budget 2024 will be tabled next month. On Wednesday, Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the first Pre-Budget consultation meeting with leading economists. The meeting was attended by MoS for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, the Finance Secretary, and the Secretaries of the Departments of Economic Affairs, Revenue, … Read more

Mamata Banerjee sits overnight in ‘dharna’ against Centre, raises political temperature

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Mamata Banerjee sits overnight in ‘dharna’ against Centre, raises political temperature

West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee with his nephew and TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee during a sit-in demonstration against Union government’s alleged discriminatory attitude against the state, in Kolkata | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s statue on Red Road in the heart … Read more

Farm sentiments remain positive led by good monsoon: Report

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Farm sentiments remain positive led by good monsoon: Report

Mumbai: Farm sentiments have remained buoyant mainly driven by healthy monsoon and further optimism of a good kharif crop, according to a report. Agriculture income is likely to benefit over the medium term aided by increased government focus on rural income coupled with the recently introduced farm reforms, Icra Ratings said in the report. Moreover, … Read more

Stringent lockdown, conservative fiscal policy were mistakes, it is time to reverse both: Swaminathan Aiyar

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Stringent lockdown, conservative fiscal policy were mistakes, it is time to reverse both: Swaminathan Aiyar

By Tamanna Inamdar Nirmala Sitharaman said there are plenty of months left in the year. We can still get the fiscal push please. Go ahead and give that fiscal push and push the money out to people through the various routes, says the Consulting Editor, ET Now. In the last six months all the policy … Read more

Bulk of additional budget spending will go towards people-centric schemes: FM

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Bulk of additional budget spending will go towards people-centric schemes: FM

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said that bulk of the additional spending sought in the first batch of the supplementary demands for grants would be spend on people-centric schemes to help them amid the coronavirus pandemic. The minister also said that probably for the first time the government has sought such a … Read more

Only 5,000 out of 24 lakh registered skilled migrants got jobs in 116 districts

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Only 5,000 out of 24 lakh registered skilled migrants got jobs in 116 districts

New Delhi: Government is said to have informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour that though more than 24 Lakh migrant skilled labourers had registered for jobs in the wake of the COVID pandemic, only 5000 could be given employment in their home state. The union ministry of Skill Development officials shared the figures with … Read more