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  Budget highlights: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma hails tax relief, fertilizer factory announcement

  Budget | February 01, 2025 23:53 IST

  Union Budget 2025: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced six new schemes and increased the subsidised Kisan Credit Card (KCC) loan limit to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 3 lakh, targeting everything from unemployment to crop productivity enhancement across the country.

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  10 key measures that could benefit homebuyers as real estate sector pins high hopes on Union Budget

  Budget | January 28, 2025 13:03 IST

  Budget 2025: The real estate industry is pushing for a higher budgetary allocation for affordable housing schemes, like the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), to ensure the success of initiatives aimed at providing affordable homes for all.

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  Budget 2025: 'NDA 3.0 must use political capital to implement structural reforms', ex-RBI Governor

  Budget | January 23, 2025 14:15 IST

  Budget 2025: According to Subbarao, if inflation persists for a long enough time, no matter whether it is driven by demand pressures or supply shocks, it will unhinge inflation expectations and inflation will get generalised.

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  PM Modi calls out Kejriwal's 'Sheesh Mahal' as symbol of AAP's lies ahead of Delhi polls

  India | January 22, 2025 20:44 IST

  PM Modi criticised AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, calling his official residence a "Sheesh Mahal" and accusing the party of lies and misusing public funds. With elections approaching, PM Modi promised better facilities under BJP governance.

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  Centre likely to announce personal income tax relief in upcoming Budget 2025: ICRA

  Budget | January 17, 2025 13:17 IST

  Budget 2025: ICRA estimated a 12 per cent growth in direct tax collections for FY2026, driven by increased income and corporate tax revenues.

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  Budget 2025 should reduce tax, compliance burden on middle class and SMEs, says expert

  Budget | January 16, 2025 7:12 IST

  Budget 2025: Currently, small businesses with an annual turnover of up to Rs 3 lakh are allowed to opt for presumptive taxation subject to condition that cash receipts is up to 5 per cent of total receipts.

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  Nirmala Sitharaman responds to X user who seeks relief for middle-class | Check her reply

  Trending | November 17, 2024 16:01 IST

  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's reaction to a social media user who sought relief from inflation created a buzz on X. People are divided on her statement on X.

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  Union Budget 2023: Middle Class Family got relief from Modi's Government Budget 2023?

  News | February 01, 2023 22:25 IST

  Today many announcements have come out for the farmers from the box of the Finance Minister. The government's focus in the budget has been on strengthening the agricultural infrastructure, promoting technology in agriculture and increasing the trend of farmers towards natural farming.

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  Budget 2023: I belong to middle-class family, understand their pressure, says Sitharaman

  Business | January 23, 2023 12:46 IST

  The minister assured them that the government can do more for the middle class as its population is growing and has become sizeable now.

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  Budget focuses on poor, middle class, youth: PM Modi

  News | February 02, 2022 14:03 IST

  The focus of the Union Budget is on providing basic amenities to the poor, middle class and youth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday and asserted that it is imperative that India becomes self-reliant. In his address on 'Aatmanirbhar Arthvyavastha' at a BJP event, he said that post-Covid, the possibility of new world order is emerging and the initial indicators of it are already visible.

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  Govt announces ₹3 lakh crore booster for MSMEs, tax concessions for middle class

  Business | May 14, 2020 6:56 IST

  Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced a series of relief measures spanning across the micro small and medium enterprise (MSME), power, real estate sectors, besides providing a slew of temporary changes to the direct tax collection rules.

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  Baba Ramdev on India TV Budget Samvaad: 'Middle class not happy with budget'

  Budget | February 02, 2018 16:33 IST

  Yoga guru Baba Ramdev today said that the middle class is not happy with the Union Budget 2018-19, which was presented by the Modi government on Thursday.

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  Expectations of middle class from Union Budget 2015

  February 27, 2015 13:51 IST

  New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present his first full-year budget for 2015-16 on February 28. Everyone, including middle class and low-income group, who voted for the Narendra Modi-led NDA government, expect a lot

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  'Indian fashion industry booming thanks to middle class'

  Lifestyle | September 15, 2013 15:43 IST

  New Delhi: The Indian fashion industry is booming because of awareness and the purchasing power of the middle class, says designer Vikram Phadnis who has been part of the industry for two decades."Indian fashion witnessed

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  A month's food will cost cheaper than a movie ticket, says Delhi minister Haroon Yusuf

  India | September 06, 2013 13:05 IST

  New Delhi:    Be it a rag picker, a rickshaw puller, a labourer or a housemaid or for that matter anyone earning less that Rs.100,000 a year - all stand to gain from the ambitious National

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  Chidambaram's remarks on middle class 'insensitive': BJP

  Politics | July 11, 2012 18:41 IST

  New Delhi, July 11: BJP today said Home Minister P Chidambaram's remarks on the middle class paying for mineral water and icecream but objecting to hike in rice and wheat prices shows the UPA government

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  Asian Football's Middle Class Challenging Leaders

  Football | September 10, 2011 17:13 IST

  Seoul, South Korea, Sept 9 : The weakest of Asia's nations may still be a long way from challenging established powers like Japan and South Korea, but countries traditionally consigned to the continent's lower-middle order