Front Page
- Election outcome budget
- Big relief for start-ups, Govt scraps angel tax
Macro
- Shifting focus from fiscal deficit to debt – GDP ratio
- Centre’s subsidy bill to fall five year low in 2024 – 25
Your money
- New tax regime sweetened further
- Govt hikes long term capital gains tax to 12.5% from 10% ; clamps down on F&O trading, raises STT
Taxation
- Govt decriminalises late payment of TDS to reduce litigation with Vivad se vishwas scheme
- Customs duty slashed on range of input materials including
Infra
- To bolster grid push for thermal & energy storage
- 1 crore houses for poor & middle class under Ph-2 of urban housing scheme
Employment
- Internship for 1 crore youth, industry seeks clarity
- PLI schemes for automobile and electronic sectors get a major push
- Focus is on being future ready by investing in education, employment skilling
Agri & Rural
- Govt takes a big leap to digitise farming sector
- PMGSY stretches into 4th phase : 25000 villages to be linked with all weather roads
- 500 crore for Namo drone didi scheme, Rs 365 crore for natural farming mission
Social
- Customs duty cut on 3 cancer drugs : Hope for patients
- In govt outreach to tribals, a new scheme for development of 63000 villages
Editorial
- Prudence and plumbing
- Hope deferred : A holding operation
- A setback for the farm
- Acts of resistance
Ideas Page
- A five year roadmap
- Responsible and inclusive
- An economy in search of a plan
MSMEs
- New credit rating mechanism for smaller units; Mudra loan limit up
Explained
- Making sense of the budget
Union Budget
- New central sector scheme for industrial development in J&K gets extended till 2037
- 1000 cr to boost space economy by 5 times in next 10 years
- Neighbourhood first in external affairs allocation for aid to countries
Express Network
- Defence budget pegged at 6.22 lakh cr minor hike to modernisation allocation
Express Network
- Jaishankar to visit Japan Laos to attend meetings of Quad and ASEAN
- UK foreign secy to visit New Delhi today
- Environmental releases of GM Mustard : Apex court gives split cerdict