Thiruvananthapuram/Chennai/Shimla, Feb. 2 -- The 16th finance commission's decision to tweak the formula for devolution of taxes to states received a mixed response on Sunday with some states welcomin... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- The 16th Finance Commission (FC) has more than doubled the grant for urban local bodies to Rs.3,56,257 crore for 2026-31 from Rs.1,55,000 crore for 2021-2026. These funds will inc... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget 2026 speech, increased the securities transaction tax (STT) on futures and options (F&O) transactions, raising the levy on... Read More
new delhi, Feb. 2 -- India's 7.4 million micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) will soon be beneficiaries of a new Rs. 10,000 crore fund, a top-up of an existing fund for startups, and reforms ... Read More
new delhi, Feb. 2 -- The Centre will roll out a scheme to incentivise the carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) technologies with an outlay of Rs.20,000 crore for a period of five years, Uni... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- One of the key tenets of taxation is that it should be easy to comply. Government has been working towards bringing in certainty and ease of compliance in successive budgets and u... Read More
Mumbai, Feb. 2 -- Moments before stepping onto court in his attempt to scale an unconquered peak then, Carlos Alcaraz, with those large headphones strapped to his ears, was grooving along and goofing ... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- India's sports goods manufacturing sector received a boost in the allocation for the Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs in the union budget presented with Rs.500 crore set aside... Read More
Mumbai, Feb. 2 -- Pakistan on Sunday formally announced its decision to boycott its marquee T20 World Cup group league match against India, even as the government cleared its national team's participa... Read More
Mumbai, Feb. 2 -- In a riveting finish to Ranji Trophy Group B action, Devdutt Padikkal's hundred helped Karnataka beat Punjab in Mohali and pip Saurashtra to the quarter-finals. Elsewhere in Group A,... Read More