New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has given a saving of Rs 2,060 per annum to male income tax payers by raising the exemption limit from Rs 1.60 lakh to Rs 1.80 lakh.

For women, Mukherjee

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday proposed to enhance the income tax exemption limit to Rs 1.8 lakh for the next financial year, from Rs 1.6 lakh now.

New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today kept the income tax exemption limit unchanged for women at Rs 1.90 lakh while increasing it for men and senior citizens.

Mukherjee, in his 2011-12

New Delhi: Here's a look at where Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee expects the money to come from to fund his Rs.12.58 lakh crore (Rs.12.58 trillion or $280 billion) federal budget:

Rupee Comes From

In a boost to the housing sector, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said low-cost housing loans of Rs.15 lakh would be eligible to get an interest subsidy of one per cent.

Various steps have been taken in this year’s union budget to give a boost to housing sector finance.

New Delhi: Salary earners having an income of less than Rs 5 lakhs will not have to file tax returns from this year, a finance ministry official said.

"Salaried people, may be up to Rs 5 lakh...they

New Delhi: Promising more money in the hands of households by hiking the income tax exemption limit and lowering tax surcharge for corporates, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday presented the ge

Government today raised the Defence Budget by 11.6 per cent to Rs 164,415 crore for 2011-12 from Rs 1,47,344 crore last year to modernise the Armed forces.

Critical institutional reforms set pace for double-digit growth

Scaled up flow of resources infuses dynamism in rural economy

GDP estimated to have grown at 8.6% in 2010-11

Exports grown by 9.6%, i