(PTI) State-owned oil firms’ capital expenditure has hit a four-year low with PSUs such as ONGC and IOC planning to invest Rs 93,693 crore in oil and gas exploration, refining and petrochemicals in the 2019-20 fiscal year. The capital expenditure outlay of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), Indian Oil Corp (IOC), GAIL (India) Ltd, Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL), Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd and their subsidiaries is the lowest since 2014-15, according to Union Budget for 2019-20 documents. Oil PSUs had proposed an investment of Rs 89,335 crore in the current fiscal year ending…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(DJ) हेलीकॉप्टर लैंडिंग की अनुमति न मिलने के कारण उत्तर प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ ने रविवार को मोबाइल से बंगाल की जनता को संबोधित किया। इस मौके पर उन्होंने ममता बनर्जी पर जमकर निशाना साधा। उनके मुताबिक, भय के कारण टीएमसी ने मेरी रैली नहीं होने दी। उनके मुताबिक, अब बंगाल में टीएमसी की दादागीरी नहीं चलेगी। लखनऊ में यूपी के सीएम ने बालुरघाट, दक्षिण दिनाजपुर में टेलीफोन के माध्यम से एक रैली को संबोधित करते हुए कहा कि बंगाल में टीएमसी के कार्यकर्ता जो कर रहे हैं, उसे बिल्कुल स्वीकार्य नहीं होना चाहिए। योगीने रायगंज और बालुरघाट में रैली…
(AU) सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता अन्ना हजारे ने रविवार को चेतावनी दी कि यदि नरेंद्र मोदी के नेतृत्व वाली केंद्र सरकार ने अपने वादे पूरे नहीं किए तो वह अपना पद्म भूषण सम्मान सरकार को लौटा देंगे। 81 वर्षीय अन्ना यहां अनिश्चितकालीन भूख हड़ताल पर बैठे हुए हैं, जिसे रविवार को 5 दिन पूरे हो गए। रविवार को दिन में एनडीए गठबंधन में भाजपा के साथी दल शिव सेना ने अन्ना हजारे की मांगों का समर्थन करने की घोषणा की। शिवसेना ने अन्ना से समाजवादी नेता जयप्रकाश नारायण का अनुसरण करते हुए भ्रष्टाचार के खिलाफ आंदोलन का नेतृत्व संभालने की अपील की।…
(FE) The central board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may consider the government’s request for an interim dividend in the customary post-Budget meeting with the finance minister, scheduled for February 9. The Budget has factored in a Rs 68,000-crore dividend from the RBI in the revised estimate for the current fiscal, economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg told Rson Saturday. Since the government has already received Rs40,000 crore from the RBI this fiscal, the interim dividend is expected to be around Rs 28,000 crore. Interim finance minister Piyush Goyal will address the RBI board meeting, which will be held two…
“Interim Budget 2019-20 is historic, it’s people friendly and forward looking. It provides assistance to all sectors which need assistance at the same time maintaining fiscal prudence”, said Shri RK Singh, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy here today. He expressed hope that the Budget would be able to bring smile to every face. India’s electrification success found a special mention in Finance Minster’s Budget speech. He said, “Till the year 2014, about 2.5 crore families were forced to live the life of 18th centuary without electricity. Under ‘Saubhagya Yojna’, we provided free electricity…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded the budget as the budget for New India which will energise the nation. In a series of Tweets and the statement after the presentation of interim budget 2019-20, PM said that over 12 crore farmers and their families, over 3 crores middle class tax payers professionals and their families and 30-40 crore labourers will gain thanks to the Budget for New India. PM said, the development initiatives of the NDA government have touched several lives which have been reflected in the budget proposals from farmer welfare to middle class, from income tax relief to infrastructure, from manufacturing to MSME,…
(ET) This will be a huge relief to those taxpayers who keep a large amount of money in their invest money in bank fixed deposits and various post office deposit schemes. Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, in his interim budget 2019 speech has proposed to raise the limit TDS threshold to Rs 40,000 from Rs 10,000 currently. This will be a huge relief to those taxpayers who keep a large amount of money in their invest money in bank fixed deposits and various post office deposit schemes. Currently, for Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs) and individuals aged up to 60 years, interest…
(AU) नोटबंदी के बाद 1 लाख 36 हजार करोड़ रुपये का टैक्स मिला: पीयूष गोयल | केंद्रीय मंत्री पीयूष गोयल आज मोदी सरकार के मौजूदा कार्यकाल का अंतिम बजट पेश करेंगे। हालांकि, सरकार पहले ही स्पष्ट कर चुकी है कि यह वित्तवर्ष 2019-20 का पूर्ण बजट नहीं होगा। इसके बावजूद चुनावी साल होने की वजह से विभिन्न वर्ग सौगातों की उम्मीद कर रहे हैं। केंद्रीय मंत्री अरुण जेटली की अनुपस्थिति में वित्तमंत्रालय का प्रभार संभाल रहे पीयूष गोयल संसद में बजट पेश कर रहे हैं।
(ET) The defence budget for 2019-20 has crossed Rs 3 lakh crore, the highest in any year so far, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said in the Lok Sabha on Friday. Goyal also annonced that Rs 35000 crores have been disbursed in previous years under One Rank One Pension. He also pointed out that a substantial hike in pay also allowances in high-risk areas has increased. “While the Congress governments only put the OROP promise in the budget thrice, we have implemented it,” he said. India’s Defence budget for FY 2018-19 was 2.95 lakh crores.
(ET) Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal has set the railway capex for FY20 at record Rs 1.6 lakh crore. Budget 2018-19 had set capital expenditure for railways at Rs 1.48 lakh crore. Goyal announced capital support for railways at Rs 64,587 crore for FY20 in his Budget 2019 speech. In the previous Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said most of this money would be spent on capacity expansion, since it was a priority for the national transporter. He proposed a target of doubling 18,000 km of lines and said gauge conversion was underway to eliminate capacity constraints. The minister said 36,000 km…