New Delhi: Within a week of the Union Budget being passed in Parliament, Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is on a two-day visit to Delhi to push for early implementation of the promises made to his state in the Budget. Naidu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah and finance minister … Read more
Parliamentary approval for the Budget 2024-25 was completed on Thursday with the Rajya Sabha returning the relevant legislations to the Lok Sabha after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s spirited reply to the debate emphasising Budget was aimed at promoting investments and creating jobs. The Rajya Sabha returned the Appropriation Bill and the Finance Bill to the … Read more
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Finance Bill 2024 after the central government relaxed the freshly-introduced new capital gains tax on real estate, allowing taxpayers an option to switch to a new lower tax rate or stay with the old regime that had higher rate with indexation benefit. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in … Read more
Lok Sabha member Mahua Moitra on Tuesday hit out at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, saying she has made a mockery of the people of India in the budget by doing absolutely nothing and whatever little changes are there are regressive and ill thought of. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Moitra criticised the budget for failing … Read more
New Delhi: Listening to the industry’s demand, the government on Tuesday moved an amendment to the Finance Bill 2024, to allow taxpayers select either a 12.5 per cent long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax rate without indexation or a 20 per cent rate with indexation for property acquired before July 23 this year. Finance Minister Nirmala … Read more
New Delhi: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose slammed the TMC government on Sunday, saying that there are a lot of loopholes in the financial management of West Bengal and accused of diverting funds. Speaking to ANI, “It is the Governor’s duty to oversee that the functioning of the government is within the constitution of … Read more
New Delhi: Indian startups successfully raised $1.03 billion in July as the government abolished angel tax in the Union Budget 2024-25 which was levied on foreign investors, according to a report on Saturday. As per the report by Entrackr, in July, Indian startups raised a total funding of $1.03 billion under 126 deals. Out of … Read more
During the discussion on the functioning of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in the Rajya Sabha on August 1, 2024, BJP’s Ratanjeet Pratap Narayan Singh took a dig at Jairam Ramesh over agriculture spending ‘Ye tora aur tori me farq nahi jaantey…’. Watch! Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is … Read more
Of the 20 senior bureaucrats who designed and drafted the budget, there is not even one OBC, or a tribal or a Dalit or minority community officer, Rahul Gandhi, the leader of Opposition in Parliament said on Monday while delivering his speech on Budget 2024. Gandhi’s persistent focus on the underrepresentation of OBC, Dalit and … Read more
Speaking in Lok Sabha, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi took a jibe at the Union budget presented by the BJP-led NDA government at the Center, stating ‘Desh ka halwa bik raha hai’. Rahul was referring to the customary halwa ceremony conducted before the Union budget is presented. “We expected that it would help farmers, labourers … Read more
