Bengaluru: With major plans for women, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday has wooed the fair sex.
High among the plans is the allocation of Rs 1000 crore for safety and empowerment of women

After announcing a slew of reform measures to revive growth, India's finance minister P. Chidambaram has indicated that the Budget for 2013-14 would focus on cutting wasteful expenses and promoting investments.

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Faced with criticism that his Budget was a lost opportunity, a candid Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said he was 'extra-careful' because of political compulsions in Parliament, even as he

Pranab Mukherjee is right. As he himself admits in the last sentence of his speech, the budget does not lend itself easily to headlines.

Yet, contrary to street view, the finance minister has probab

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It’s a mixed bag of goodies for major corporate houses. While the taxation departments and finance chiefs at big business houses were assessing the impact on their groups finances, one thing became c

The Centre has proposed several measures like including income-tax ret-urn assessment of up to 16 years with regard to assets held abroad and tax deduction at source (TDS) on transfer of immovable pro

Calling the Indian budget 'measured but without game-changing reforms,' a US-India trade group has expressed the hope that the government would deliver on foreign investor friendly key reforms during

India's businesses, already facing high interest rates and a global economic slowdown, worry that the finance ministry will ask them to shoulder a bigger tax burden in the budget set for release on Fr