Jaitley unveils Modi government’s first budget: I-T rates unchanged, cellphones get cheaper, defence and education get priority
The Budget for 2014-15 on Thursday left income tax rates unchanged but provided sops to small and marginal assessees by raising the threshold exemption limit...
State BJP sees silence as best way to answer censures for Govt decisions
KOLKATA: Even as Union Budget inspired expectations among the various business chambers of commerce here today with hope that if hard decisions, not populism, would...
Tea gardens’ starvation deaths in Bengal taint Union Budget enthusiasts
KOLKATA: After Union Railway Budget, as Union Budget is afoot and Union Government empowered with so many legislations, like Food Security Act and few others...
No need to panic, sufficient food-grain stock to face any situation: Jaitley
NEW DELHI : Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sought to play down fears of a drought saying it was premature to panic, but private forecaster...
Narayanan leaves Kolkata, goes back to Chennai home
KOLKATA: M K Narayanan, who quit his office of governor, the other day flown back to his home in Chennai this late afternoon. Incidentally, Narayanan,...
PM Modi Flags Off Train for Pilgrims
NEW DELHI:Narendra Modi is in Jammu and Kashmir today – his first visit after taking over as Prime Minister – and he has launched a...