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Govt to part with 10% NTPC stake in FY16

Move part of record R69,500-crore divestment plan for next fiscal

Updated: March 19, 2015 06:01 IST

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Overseas inflows hit Rs 72,000 crore so far this year

Overseas investors have pumped in nearly Rs 14,000 crore into the Indian capital markets within a fortnight of this month…

March 15, 2015 11:33 IST

Govt to levy Swachh Bharat cess on select services

In the Budget 2015, FM Arun Jaitley had proposed an enabling provision to levy the cess at a rate of…

March 14, 2015 10:05 IST

Why Budget FY16 makes sense

Finance minister Arun Jaitley is a smart man. When everyone was hoping that he will be presenting a pro-business Budget,…

Updated: March 12, 2015 05:41 IST

National Pension Scheme: Does NPS merit your money after the Budget fillip?

When it comes to investing, Indians are a conventional lot that prefers traditional instruments offering security…

Updated: March 17, 2015 11:50 IST

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‘Minimum Alternate Tax may eventually become unnecessary’

With the promised phased reduction of the corporate tax rate and weeding out of exemptions, the minimum alternate tax…

March 6, 2015 01:31 IST

Higher service tax to add to pain of middle-class

Services like air travel, telephone, eating out at restaurants, dry-cleaning, courier, beauty treatments, cable and DTH services, etc, will now…

Updated: March 7, 2015 14:46 IST

Has the Budget done enough to boost infrastructure?

While the allocation to the infrastructure sector will go up by R70,000 crore in 2015-16 over last year, the sector…

March 5, 2015 00:16 IST

Bihar’s surprise package

That the PMO was actively involved in the Budget-making process is well-known, what’s less known is the finance ministry was…

March 4, 2015 03:55 IST

BBB will initiate PSB consolidation: Hasmukh Adhia

Performance-based criteria for Public Sector Bank (PSB) capitalisation will stay and the Centre, from FY17 onwards, will allocate towards…

March 4, 2015 03:48 IST

Infratweets: Need to reboot PPPs

Budget 2015: The government has taken a long-term approach that is aimed at putting infrastructure sector back on track.

Updated: March 4, 2015 06:19 IST

The missing links in the Budget

From disinvestment to the gold schemes, there are gaps between the announcements and the expected outcome

March 4, 2015 02:47 IST

Budget: Annual exercise or road map for the future

The Budget for 2015-16 is a welcome departure as it lays down a roadmap in terms of growth acceleration (8-8.5%…

March 4, 2015 01:44 IST

Budget 2015-16: Corrective to the core

FM budgets $11 bn increase in infrastructure spending in FY16

March 4, 2015 01:38 IST

Power: Capex push missing

Onus of capital expenditure slowly shifting towards private sector

March 4, 2015 00:43 IST

Tax net to cover more services

The government will consider further curtailing the list of services that are outside the tax net and consider increasing tax…

March 4, 2015 00:31 IST

POEM places corporates in a spot as tax muddle looks set to get worse

A Budget proposal requiring companies to pay taxes on overseas subsidiaries if the management of that subsidiary is effectively in…

Updated: March 3, 2015 04:59 IST

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Texas plane crash: 2 dead, dramatic visuals show fiery explosion

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