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02.02 / 03:37

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Nirmala Sitharaman said in comments to the media that the budget has pledged substantial relief to the middle class through income tax cuts and is also focused on interventions required to make India a developed country by 2047. Edited excerpts:

02.02 / 03:37

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Narendra Modi hailed the «people's budget,» calling it a «force multiplier» and adding that it will give an impetus to savings, investment, consumption and growth. He congratulated finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her team for a budget that aims at giving primacy not to filling government coffers but to empowering the middle class besides bolstering the rural economy as well as the SC, ST communities, women and farmers.

02.02 / 03:37

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budget comes at a time of heightened global uncertainty and geo-economic fragmentation. In this backdrop, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman chose to deliver a growth-oriented and reform-focused budget that kept the economy on a fiscally prudent path.

02.02 / 03:27

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 1930, Nandalal Bose painted a mural of Rabindranath Tagore driving an ox and plough amidst a group of performers.

02.02 / 03:27

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It turns out I’m going to write a book! It will require years of agony, but I’ll do it. Also, I will retire at 65.

02.02 / 02:45

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CAPITAL GAINS AIFs Get Clarity on Tax The government has clarified that profits earned by ‘Category 1 and ‘Category 2’ alternative investment funds (AIFs) from sale of securities will be treated as capital gains and not business income which is higher. So investors in AIFs will pay capital gains tax and not 30% income tax.

02.02 / 02:45

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economic growth) translating to the micro (corporate profit growth). On the macro, the finance minister has just delivered a bullish budget. And yet, the million-dollar micro question remains — will corporate profits revive? First, the budget. It can be dissected into three C's — consolidation, consumption, and capex. On the consolidation front, the budget is firmly on track, with FY25 fiscal deficit at 4.8% of gross domestic product (GDP), expected to be further lower at 4.4% in FY26.

02.02 / 02:45

markets UPS Mobile Analysis trends Trade Experts Tax gains likely to boost consumption; Realty, FMCG and Consumer Durables indices surge

income tax cuts in the budget spurred a rally in shares of consumption companies Saturday as investors bet that individuals with money at their disposal would be encouraged to spend more on personal mobility choices and other consumer discretionary products. Nifty’s Realty index jumped 3.4%, while Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Consumer Durables indices were up about 3% each. The Nifty Auto index gained 1.9%. Benchmark Nifty ended 0.1% lower.

02.02 / 02:05

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Retail investors who had been strategically accumulating stocks during the market's 7.3% decline in the December quarter, betting on a rebound, were rewarded with the unveiling of the Union budget. A Mint analysis of 1,957 companies shows that individual investors (holding nominal share capital up to ₹ 2 lakhs) increased their ownership in approximately 51% of these companies between the September and December quarters.

02.02 / 02:05

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It can take a lot of rules to be a successful member of the growing ranks of the part-time sober. No wine after 8 p.m.

01.02 / 19:27

markets UPS Provident Target Gap Strategy Sowing seeds of change for agriculture but gaps remain

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Economic Survey called agriculture the “sector of the future" and the FM echoed this sentiment in her budget speech, emphasizing garib, youth, annadata and nari. Despite this focus, key gaps remain.

01.02 / 16:27

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The stock market closed largely unchanged as the Union budget disappointed on the capex front, even though the tax cuts proposed are expected to give a boost to consumption. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) gave a thumbs-down to the budget at Saturday's special session, selling a provisional ₹1327.09 crore worth of shares, even as domestic institutional investors net purchased equities worth ₹824.38 crore.

01.02 / 16:27

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The markets somersaulted. India Inc cheered.

01.02 / 15:41

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The first full budget of Modi 3.0 government’s arrived at a precarious time. India, the world’s fastest-growing major economy, is now grappling with a seven-quarter-low GDP growth rate in Q2 FY25.

01.02 / 15:33

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01.02 / 15:23

UPS Waters wellness Bill show cover Headlines India’s budget does well to drive growth despite a fiscal pullback

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Union budget was presented on Saturday in the backdrop of sluggish real growth and stubborn albeit declining headline inflation with the latest print above 5%. Real growth was at 6% in the first half of the current year (2024-25), as against 8.2% in the same period last year.

01.02 / 15:23

UPS Target Food electronic travelers boating Consumption push: Shop till you drop?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. There is a spring in the step of Indian consumer-related companies after the budget 2025’s proposal to make income up to ₹12 lakh tax-free under the new tax regime. With more disposable income in the hands of millions of taxpayers, the expectation is that consumers would be encouraged to spend more on items like staples, electronics, clothes, footwear, restaurants and travel.

01.02 / 14:23

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With home prices high, American families are grappling with the prospect that homeownership might remain out of reach for them for a long time

01.02 / 13:21

UPS Provident security economy Pool Bill country budget 2025 Budget 2025 | Tax relief for AIFs as income will now be treated as capital gains

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : A 10-year-long lobbying effort by the private equity and venture capital industry bore fruit on Saturday when finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman amended section 2 (14) of the Income Tax Act on “capital assets" to include alternative investment fund (AIF) investments in securities.

01.02 / 12:09

UPS Research Experts innovations information reports It’s time for AI to come home

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Put aside the claims that can’t be confirmed. What kind of presumably second-rate chips did it use? How little did it spend training its derivative large language model? Likewise, if analysts at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies are correct, DeepSeek trained itself on information illicitly gleaned as an enterprise client of America’s pioneering OpenAI.

01.02 / 12:09

UPS economy Bill trends Mint Quick Edit | Sitharaman’s income tax bonanza: Time to rejoice

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s middle class has reason to rejoice. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has eased income tax burdens under the new regime across the board.

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