(PTI) The government has exceeded the tax collection estimates for 2016-17 fiscal at Rs 17.10 lakh crore. The revised estimates (RE) provided in Budget on February 1 had projected tax collections of Rs 16.97 lakh crore. The Finance Ministry in a statement said that tax collection of Rs 17.10 lakh crore is a growth of around 18 per cent compared to last year. Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said, “Total net tax revenue grows at 18 per cent to Rs 17.10 lakh crore, highest in last 6 years.” While direct tax mop up during the April-March period grew 14.2 per cent at…
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(PTI) British Finance Minister Philip Hammond will hold discussions with his Indian counterpart Arun Jaitley today to promote trade and investments between the two countries. Hammond is visiting India to participate in the UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogue. According to the British High Commission, the ninth UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) is hosted by the Indian Finance Minister. The high-level talks are aimed at deepening the UK’s economic and trading relationship with India and showcasing Britain as one of the best places in the world to do business, it said. It added that the EFD will involve a series of events…
(ET) State-run oil companies enrolled a record three crore cooking gas consumers in 2016-17, about twothirds of them from poor families, as part of the government drive to shut hazardous smoke from the kitchens of those who had not yet had access to clean cooking fuel. The government has mandated oil companies to add 10 crore new cooking gas customers between April 2016 and March 2019. Half of the new connections have to go to poor households under the government’s Ujjwala Yojana.Yojana. “When Modi ji took over as prime minister, the country had 14 crore active LPG consumers, which has…
(BS) Post-merger of five associate banks and the Bharatiya Mahila Bank, top public sector lender State Bank of India (SBI) began operations on Monday with 500 million customers, SBI Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya announced here. The associate banks which merged with the SBI are State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank Of Hyderabad, State Bank of Mysore and State Bank of Travancore besides the Mahila Bank. “The SBI opened as ‘one bank’ today (Monday) and will continue to operate in the same manner as before post-merger. New products and services will come across more seamlessly,” Bhattacharya told…
(One India) सरकार की तरफ से जनता को एक बड़ा झटका दिया गया है। मोदी सरकार ने सब्सिडी वाले गैस सिलेंडर की कीमत बढ़ा दी है। नई कीमतें 1 अप्रैल से लागू होंगी। आइए जानते हैं सरकार ने लिए हैं क्या फैसले। 5.57 रुपए महंगी हुई रसोई गैस सरकार का यह फैसला सिर्फ उन लोगों के लिए बुरी खबर लाया है, जो सब्सिडी के गैस सिलेंडर इस्तेमाल करते हैं। सरकार ने सब्सिडी वाले गैस सिलेंडर की कीमत 5.57 रुपए बढ़ा दी है। इस तरह से अब 14.2 किलो का सब्सिडी वाला गैस सिलेंडर अब आपको 440.50 रुपए में मिलेगा
(HT) The Uttar Pradesh cabinet will hold its first meeting on April 4 during which a decision on farm loan waiver, the BJP’s biggest poll promise, could be taken. A proposal of write off farmer loans had been sent to the cabinet, agriculture minister Surya Pratap Shahi told media in Varanasi on Sunday. The BJP surprised everyone when it named 44-year-old Hindu hardliner Yogi Adityanath as the chief minister after a massive win in the state election. Adityanath took oath of office on March 19 but has not held a cabinet meeting so far.
(DJ) सरकार वैश्विक मानकों के अनुसार हर तीन से चार वर्ष में 2,000 रुपये और 500 रुपये के उच्च मूल्यवर्ग के बैंक नोट्स के सुरक्षा मानकों को बदलने की योजना बना रही है। आपको बता दें कि सरकार की ओर से यह कदम नोटबंदी लागू होने के बाद बीते चार महीनों के दौरान भारी मात्रा में जाली नोटों की धरपकड़ के बाद सामने आया है। गौरतलब है कि केंद्र सरकार ने नोटबंदी का फैसला पिछले वर्ष 8 नवंबर को लिया था जिसमें 500 और 1000 रुपए के पुराने नोट अमान्य कर दिए गए थे। इसके बाद आरबीआई की ओर से…
(HT) More than two weeks into his job, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is yet to undertake a bureaucratic reshuffle that normally follows a change of guard.The 44-year-old Adityanath, who is also the head of the influential Nath sect, has tasked select Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) cadre and his aides to prepare a list of “honest, workaholic” officers, sources said. But, he is doing some ground work on his own as well. From Monday evening, he will sit through departmental presentations in which officer will detail their plans to implement the ruling party’s poll promises.The exercise that could last two…
(DJ) रिजर्व बैंक के गवर्नर उर्जित पटेल के साथ डिप्टी गवर्नरों की सैलरी में भारी इजाफा हुआ है। सरकार ने इनकी बेसिक सैलरी में दोगुने से ज्यादा की बढ़ोतरी की है। उर्जित का मूल वेतन बढ़ाकर 2.5 लाख तो डिप्टी गवर्नर का 2.25 लाख रुपये कर दिया गया है। यह बदलाव पीछे की तारीख एक जनवरी 2016 से लागू है। इससे पहले तक आरबीआइ के गवर्नर की बेसिक सैलरी 90 हजार, जबकि डिप्टी गवर्नर की 80 हजार रुपये हुआ करती थी। बढ़ोतरी के बावजूद इनके वेतन उन विभिन्न बैंकों के टॉप एक्जीक्यूटिव से कम हैं जिनका केंद्रीय बैंक नियंत्रण करता…
(PTI) The BSE Sensex recovered by over 157 points and the Nifty scaled a record high in early trade on widespread buying by investors and funds, triggered by a firm trend in Asian markets. On the first trading day of the new quarter, the 30-share index rose 157.97 points, or 0.53 per cent, to 29,778.47, with sectoral indices auto, bank, oil&gas, consumer durables and capital goods advancing by up to 0.71 per cent. Major gainers that supported the upmove were Reliance (4.23 per cent), Gail (1.63 per cent), L&T (1.10 per cent), Tata Motors (0.70 per cent and M&M (0.57 per…