Budgeting for agriculture and food
The Union Budget 2023-24 was presented against the backdrop of some critical geopolitical developments and was the last full budget before the next general elections. Signicantly, 2023 is also the year
Budget
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Car sales up 13% on post-Budget price hike fears
New Delhi: Car sales zoomed 13% in February as buyers flooded showrooms, owing to fears of a price hike after Budget. This was the steepest pace of growth since April 2011 to 2.11 lakh units against 1.86
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Food bill to cover just 66% of India’s hungry
With 230 million people under-nourished, the country awaits some comprehensive policy intervention from the government to tackle this haunting crisis. One of the most logical measures would be to provide
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Railway budget should include more projects for the NE
GUWAHATI, March 11: The NF Railway Mazdoor Union has appealed to the Union Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi for take steps for the development of the north-eastern region. The union has submitted a memorandum
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Mines Bill may be in slow lane to House
The mining industry will have to wait till at least the monsoon session of Parliament for passage of the new Mines and Mineral Development and Regulation (MMDR) Bill. The legislation is being examined by a parliamentary standing committee. In an interview here with Business Standard, the secretary in the ministry of mines, Vishwapati Trivedi, ruled out earlier passage of the Bill. “The Budget session starts on March 12 and I think the standing committee has not yet completed its deliberations. So, there’s no way we can get it in the Budget session,” he said.
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Budget 2012 may extend sops to North Eastern states
Budget 2012 will probably carry some regional sops in the form of continuation of exemptions on excise given in the North East states plus some existing subsidies on transportation. One does not expect
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MCA seeks fine-tuning of mines Bill, cites a clause
New Delhi THE ministry of corporate affairs has suggested some fine-tuning of the new Mines Bill, which is being examined by a parliamentary panel and provides for profit-sharing by mining firms with project-affected people, among other provisions. Questioning a clause in the new Bill that provides for issuing at least one share of the mining company to each affected family that will be non-transferable, the MCA in a letter to the panel has said that under the Companies Act, shares of public and private limited companies and those of listed companies are transferable.
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Forest scam rocks Haryana House
A TOI report on Union government’s letter to the state government for a CBI probe into forest and herbal park scams allegedly involving two Haryana ministers and senior government officials created a furore
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Zero deficit budget caters for aam aadmi
No fresh taxes except on tobacco products y VAT on cooking gas, fertilisers goes y Sops for IT, science, Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather today presented a "zero deficit" budget for 2012-13. Except
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Power output up by 300% in last 36 yrs
Power generation costs in Haryana has gone up by over 300 per cent in the last 36 years. Power Minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav said this in the Vidhan Sabha’s budget session on Monday. While replying
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Multi-crore forest scam rocks Haryana Vidhan Sabha
There was a furore in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha here on Monday when the Indian National Lok Dal and BJP legislators brandished copies of a newspaper during Zero Hour and demanded a statement from the Government regarding “directions issued by the Centre to the State Government to initiate a CBI inquiry into the forest scam in which the names of two Ministers and several bureaucrats have been mentioned”.