Union Budget 2025: What’s in it for the energy sector? | Video Credit: The Hindu A look at what the Union Budget 2025 had in store for renewable energy, solar power and nuclear energy. Video: Sabika Syed Editing: Tayyab Hussain Published – February 01, 2025 08:41 pm IST Source link
The Indian banking and financial sector though robust and well capitalized, still faces serious challenges linked to unsecured loans and global market volatility. This fact has already been highlighted in the Economic Survey 2025. To combat this issue, the FM has introduced several measures for the sector, for example, to bring credit guarantee cover for…
India’s middle class has reason to rejoice. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has eased income tax burdens under the new regime across the board. The threshold level for zero income tax, for instance, has been bumped up to â‚ą12 lakh annually from â‚ą7 lakh. That’s quite a leap. Also Read: Union Budget 2025 strengthens the middle…
Image for representative purpose | Photo Credit: Reuters Gig workers will now be provided healthcare under PM Jan Arogya Yojana as per the union budget announcement by the Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman Union Minister on Saturday (February 1, 2025). She also announced that to provide relief to patients, particularly those…
Currently, four VVER 1,000-MWe reactors are being built at the KKNPP site. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Boosting state’s power distribution and opening the nuclear power sector was announced by Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her eighth Budget speech on Saturday (February 1, 2025). She announced incentivisation of distribution reforms to help the financial…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a setup of new centre of excellence in artificial intelligence for education in the Union Budget 2025. Speaking during her budget speech, Sitharaman said, “I had announced three centres of excellence in artificial intelligence for agriculture, health and sustainable cities in 2023. Now, a centre of excellence in artificial…
Budget 2025: In India, the maximum income tax rate is 30 percent for those in the highest income bracket before a surcharge of up to 25 or 37 percent depending on which regime (new or old) and a 4 percent cess on the combined figure. In Budget 2023, the government had cut down the maximum surcharge…
The big day is here! FM Sitharaman will deliver her 8th Budget speech at 11 a.m. Even though it’s a Saturday, stock markets (BSE and NSE) will remain open. This will be her second full Budget under Modi 3.0 and her eighth overall, including six annual and two interim Budgets during the NDA tenure. From…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today will present a record eighth consecutive Union Budget that is expected to contain measures to shore up weakening economic growth and ease the burden on the middle class struggling with high prices and stagnant wage growth while being fiscally prudent. This will take Ms. Sitharaman closer to the record of…
Indian stock market: The domestic equity market is expected to show volatility on Saturday as the Finance Minister will present the Union Budget for 2025-2026 in the Parliament today. The Indian stock market benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty 50 may open on a cautious note amid weak global market cues. Asian markets ended mixed, while…
