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‘Seems to have missed the ball’: Tharoor’s cricketing analogy to slam Budget

New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday used a cricketing analogy to express his disappointment with the Union Budget, saying Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman “seems to have missed the ball”. In an interview with PTI at the news agency’s headquarters, Tharoor said Sitharaman’s Budget speech seemed to have “lots of subheadings but very few specifics”, and was “completely short” of an overall vision. As a Kerala MP, Tharoor said, he had nothing to be happy about in this Budget. Tharoor asserted that the biggest unanswered question remains jobs, noting that there was little in the

Bengal not mentioned in Budget, govt sees us as ‘Bangladeshis’: Abhishek Banerjee

New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday accused the Centre of branding people of West Bengal as “Bangladeshis” and lambasted the finance minister for not mentioning the state in her Budget speech. Asked about the Budget, Banerjee said it has no solutions for any community, and called it a “faceless, baseless and visionless Budget”. “The Budget speech was 85 minutes long — 5,100 seconds — Bengal was not even mentioned. Forget Bengal; farmer, youth… there was nothing concrete for anyone. “They talk about AI, Skill India, technological advancement; how would youth get employment,

India hands Apple a win by letting foreign firms fund equipment for manufacturers

NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (Reuters) – India’s government on Sunday handed a major win to Apple by allowing foreign companies to freely provide machines to their contract manufacturers set up in certain areas for five years, without fearing any tax risk. Smartphone manufacturing is a key plank of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s agenda, but Apple had been lobbying India’s government to modify its income tax laws to ensure the company is not taxed for ownership of high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its contract manufacturers. In India, unlike China, Apple was concerned that if it paid for machines for its

India budget ‘tactical’, not ‘breakthrough’, Moody’s Ratings says

MUMBAI, Feb 1 (Reuters) – India’s annual federal budget was “tactical” but not a “breakthrough”, Moody’s Ratings said in its reaction to a government roadmap for the next financial year. Planned fiscal consolidation, which will bring the budget gap to 4.3% from 4.4% in the current year, will not change India’s credit profile, Christian de Guzman, senior vice president at Moody’s Ratings, told Reuters. “(Despite India’s) lengthening track record of deficit consolidation or fiscal discipline, this deficit is still wider than what it was prior to Covid,” Guzman said. “We haven’t seen the fiscal metrics improve sufficiently enough to actually

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