Five-fold strategy to deal with black money menace: FM
New Delhi: Expressing "serious concern" over the generation and circulation of black money, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the government has adopted a five-fold strategy to deal with
Pencils, soups, jewellery take a hit!
New Delhi: Stationery items widely used by school children, text books, branded ready-made garments and jewellery, treatment in private hospitals, air travel and lawyer fees will become costlier foll
Budget 2011: Highlights
Highlights of Budget for 2011-12:
* Service tax widened to cover hotel accommodation above Rs 1,000 per day, A/C restaurants serving liquor, some category of hospitals, diagnostic tests
Petrol, diesel prices may rise
New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices look set to be hiked after Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ignored calls for its reduction in customs and excise duty to contain the impact of spurt in global cr
Prices: Pranab spares smokers, school children take a hit
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who quit smoking pipe several years ago, has spared the tobacco industry - a prime source of raising revenue for the exchequer - by not raising excise dut
Budget promises reforms, growth-focus, inflation-check
New Delhi: With a fair dose of reforms in the form of direct kerosene and fertiliser subsidies to users, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday presented the federal budget for 2011-12, promisin
Budget has taken care of common man: Sibal
Welcoming the increased allocation for education as well as telecom sectors in the Budget, Union minister Kapil Sibal on Monday said the interest of the common man has been taken care of.
Petrol, diesel prices may rise after FM fails to reduce duty
New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices look set to be hiked after Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ignored calls for its reduction in customs and excise duty to contain the impact of spurt in global cru
Farm loans at 4 per cent; credit target raised to Rs 4,75,000 cr
In a bonanza to the farming community, the government today announced loans at interest rate of four per cent - three per cent less than market rate - for farmers who pay their dues in time and raised the credit target for farm sector by Rs 1 lakh crore.
Highlights: Simpler I-T return forms, new coins
New Delhi: In the Union Budget 2011-12, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today announced higher tax exemption limit of Rs 1.8 lakh for individuals and further benefits to senior citizens, addition