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Public health groups, health economists and doctors have urged the Centre to increase excise duty on all tobacco products including cigarettes
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the Union Budget for 2022-23 will be of great help in implementing the National Education Policy on the ground and asserted that the decision to set up a National Digital University can solve the problem of shortage of seats in educational institutions in the country. Addressing […]
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Hyderabad: Finance Minister T Harish Rao slammed the union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy accusing him of lack of any moral right to speak about Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and Telangana martyrs. Harish Rao reminded Kishan Reddy that he became a union Minister only due to Telangana which was created due to the sacrifices […]
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Yadadri-Bhongir: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned into a curse for Telangana State as his government was discriminating against it. Speaking at a meeting of the party leaders held at Bhongir to discuss the arrangements of public meeting to be attended by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar […]
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It rides on rhetoric and has little substance to combat either inflation or facilitate growth
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Yadadri-Bhongir: Health Minister T Harish Rao challenged State BJP president Bandi Sanjay to stage ‘Million March’ at New Delhi instead of Hyderabad. Speaking at the Alair Assembly Constituency level meeting of TRSV and TRS youth wing held at Yadagirigutta, Harish Rao demanded the Centre to reveal the total number of vacant posts and the vacancies […]
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The NDA government’s decision to tax crypto assets without first creating a regulatory framework for their transactions is baffling. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement, in her Budget presentation, that any income from transfer of any virtual digital asset would be taxed at the rate of 30% reflects the Centre’s eagerness to dip into the digital […]
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Hyderabad: TRS MPs G Ranjith Reddy and B Venkatesh Netha criticised the union government for introducing a purposeless union Budget. They alleged that the promises made by the BJP government in the budget were filled with half-truths and reduced allocations to crucial sectors. Speaking to mediapersons in Delhi, Chevella MP G Ranjith Reddy said the […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday said the budget presented by union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was beneficial to rich people only. Speaking to media persons in New Delhi, he said Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao did not ask about the funds for Telangana during the press conference on […]
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Hyderabad: The Union Budget 2022-23 came as a big shock for Telangana as all its demands for additional funds and new projects were ignored. The budget speech of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also had no mention of the commitments made to the state under Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014. The state had high hopes from […]
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Hyderabad: Two years of sustained pressure on healthcare infrastructure due to three successive Covid waves had raised a lot of expectations from the union Budget among public health specialists. However, the overall reaction from industry leaders in healthcare towards the Budget has been a mixed bag. A 10 per cent increase in allocation to health […]
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Soon after presenting her shortest Budget speech yet that lasted for some 92 minutes, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed the media, directly. There were no opening statements. Sitharaman’s fourth Budget in a row neither tinkered with tax slabs nor raised the standard deduction, which was widely expected in view of elevated inflation levels and the […]
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Hyderabad: Even though the union Budget did not make any major announcements for the overall startup ecosystem, some of the announcements that stood out include forming an expert panel for easing growth of Private Equity/Venture Capital investments and tax incentives for startups extending by one year. The government on Tuesday announced to extend the period […]
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Hyderabad: An allocation of Rs 300 crore has been made for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Hyderabad for the financial year 2022-23, in the union budget estimates presented on Tuesday. These budget estimates were allocated under the object head grants for the creation of capital assets. For 2021-22, the budget estimates for the IIT-Hyderabad were […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana State Planning Board vice-chairman B Vinod Kumar on Tuesday said the union budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman left everyone disappointed. The union Budget would not benefit any community in the country, he said in a statement issued here. Priority was not given to the education, health, education, agriculture and welfare sectors […]
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Hyderabad: There is nothing for the common man, particularly the salaried class. There have been no tax exemptions, deductions or tax proposals that can help employees save tax. These expectations stemmed from the rising cost of living and also higher Covid-related spend. Also, there have been many concerns related to work-from-home, which many hoped will […]
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Hyderabad: The Finance Minister also announced that the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) will be extended to cover the next fiscal as well, with expanded guarantee cover of Rs 5 lakh crore. This will help the MSMEs that have been hit by the pandemic, said Mahesh Desai, Chairman of Engineering Export Promotion Council. The […]
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New Delhi: The Railway Ministry has been allocated Rs 1,40,367.13 crore in the Union Budget on Tuesday – Rs 20,311 crore more than the revised figures of the previous fiscal. Vande Bharat Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech for 2022-23 said that India will manufacture 400 new, energy-efficient Vande Bharat trains in the […]
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Kolkata: The Union Budget provided nothing to the common people who have been “crushed” by unemployment and inflation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday, terming it a “Pegasus spin budget”. Banerjee said the Centre was lost in “big words” signifying nothing. BUDGET HAS ZERO FOR COMMON PEOPLE, WHO ARE GETTING CRUSHED BY […]
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New Delhi: Calling the Union Budget a “visionary budget” brought by the Modi government, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said it will change the scale of India’s economy and make the country self-reliant. Shah took Twitter to express his views soon after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2022-23 in Parliament. […]
