New Delhi: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman called on various ministries and departments to expedite capital spending and set quarterly targets. On Tuesday, Sitharaman chaired the first of a series of meetings lined up to review the productive spending, and the resultant asset creation, across infrastructure and other ministries. She held meetings with the ministries of … Read more
Mahindra & Mahindra on Friday denied report which said that the Indian automaker and China’s Shaanxi Automobile Group have agreed to set up a $3 billion joint venture to build a car manufacturing plant in India and are awaiting New Delhi’s approval. The automaker called the Reuters report to be ‘unfounded and said that there … Read more
India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 23rd Jul’24 presented the Union Budget 2024-25. This was the first budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term in the government. Overall, the broad themes from the interim Budget remained unchanged. The Union budget 2024-25 focused on infrastructure, fiscal consolidation, job creation, MSMEs, women, and agricultural support. Broadly … Read more
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman answers Congress claims that internship, Angel tax abolition & other ideas were borrowed by BJP in the Budget. She also says jobs are getting added but maybe not so many in the formal sector. FM points out that three out of five scheme packages in this Budget are for jobs. Self-employed … Read more
As the dust around the Union Budget 2024 settles down, potential losers in the market as a result of announcements or rather lack of it, are coming to the fore. Sectors that are likely to get negatively impacted in the near term are banks, NBFCs, asset management companies (AMCs), real estate, consumer, defence, OMCs and … Read more
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered her seventh budget speech on Tuesday, pledging to create more jobs, boost spending on infrastructure while still reining in the fiscal deficit. The closely-watched budget was the first under a new coalition government after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party lost its majority in the parliament in recent elections. Here … Read more
As Nirmala Sitharaman gears up to present the Budget, scheduled for July 23, let’s have a look at what the Budget Survey by ET Online said about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Indian economy at the moment. The good, surprisingly, is that ‘inflation is under control’, the bad part is the … Read more
Automotive dealers body FADA on Friday urged the government to introduce vehicle depreciation benefits for individual taxpayers, saying it will not only expand the taxpayer base but also ignite automobile demand. In its pre-budget wishlist, the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) also asked the finance ministry to reduce corporate tax for LLPs, proprietary, and … Read more
Sales of commercial vehicles – a barometer of economic activity – surpassed expectations last quarter driven by strong replacement demand and continued government spending on infrastructure. As per industry estimates, more than 234,000 trucks and buses were sold in the local market in the three months ended June, a 4.5% rise from 224,000 vehicles sold … Read more
Despite growing concerns in the investor community that coalition politics might force Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to relax the fiscal consolidation path and pivot towards welfare spending from capex, global brokerage firm Goldman Sachs is expecting the contrary. “We expect the general government to stick to the announced fiscal deficit target of 5.1% of GDP … Read more
