Mumbai, Sep 18 (PTI) Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty ended mixed on Friday as a drop in crude oil prices was overshadowed by weakness in IT stocks and Tata Group counters. Giving up intraday gains during the Closing Auction Session (CAS),
NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government resisted the temptation of spending trillions of rupees on schemes for the poor in its last budget before elections and instead stuck to the path of fiscal consolidation to attract investors.
NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Government will spend 4.55 trillion rupees ($54.84 billion) on subsidies for food, fertilisers and rural employment schemes in the fiscal year starting April 1, down 7% from the current financial year, an official budget document showed
New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said there are no changes in tax rates for direct and indirect taxes, including import duties. She also said the number of tax filers has swollen 2.4 times and the direct
NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman promised economic reforms to drive growth in a speech on the government’s budget on Thursday, the last before a national election due by May. India’s economy, the fastest growing among major nations,