Sensex plunges over 900 points, Nifty settles at 11643.80; ITC, Tata Motors, HDFC top losers
Infra, metals and PSU bank index ended with losses of 3-4 percent, while ITC, Tata Motors, HDFC, and Larsen & Toubro were among the top losers.
Feb 01, 2020, 16:02 PM IST
Budget 2020: Defence budget increased by 6% to Rs 3.37 lakh crore from Rs 3.19 lakh crore
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday (February 1) delivered her Budget 2020 and announced that the Centre has decided to increase the defence budget by six per cent to Rs 3.37 lakh crore.
Feb 01, 2020, 16:00 PM IST
Budget 2020: FM announces new income tax slabs, simplifies direct tax regime
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today slashed the personal income tax rate for individuals for fiscal year 2020-21. Under the new regime, taxpayers will pay 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% for incomes between Rs 5-7.5 lakh, Rs 7.5-10 lakh, Rs 10-12.5 lakh and Rs 12.5-15 lakh.
Feb 01, 2020, 15:26 PM IST
Budget 2020: Rs 99,300 crore allocated for education sector
She also added that there will also be degree level full-fledged online education programme by institutions ranked in the top 100. Nirmala Sitharaman also mentioned that the Centre proposes to attach medical colleges with district hospitals on PPP model to deal with the shortage of doctors.
Feb 01, 2020, 15:22 PM IST
Union budget 2020: Full speech of FM Nirmala Sitharaman
Here's the full speech of Nirmala Sitharaman as she presented the Union Budget 2020 in Lok Sabha today:
Feb 01, 2020, 15:17 PM IST
Tax, propose, government, crore the most used words in Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2020 speech
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2020 speech included 13,331 words with the most used being tax which hit a century and was used 101 times by the Finance Minister. Apart from tax, the other words which make the top 10 list include propose (95 times), government (94), crore (68), year (65), India (60), provide (57), lakh (56), up (51) and income (44).
Feb 01, 2020, 15:13 PM IST
Budget 2020 proposes measures to energise economy; Check key highlights
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday (February 1) tabled the Union Budget 2020-21, unveiling a series of far-reaching reforms, aimed at energizing the Indian economy.
Feb 01, 2020, 14:57 PM IST
Budget 2020: Sitharaman spoke for more than 2.5 hours, delivers longest speech ever
Sitharaman spoke for as long as 2 hours and 40 minutes and used as many as 13,331 words in her speech.
Feb 01, 2020, 14:41 PM IST
Budget 2020: Over 100 lakh crore to be spent in building modern infrastructure | Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday while presenting the Union Budget 2020 allocates 100 lakh Crore rupees to build modern infrastructure. The government has decided to invest more than Rs 100 lakh crore on building modern infrastructure in the next 5 years with a special emphasis on connectivity.
Feb 01, 2020, 14:38 PM IST
Budget 2020: What got cheaper and what got costlier; know here
In Union Budget 2020-21 bought major relief to individual taxpayers by introducing reduction in tax slabs and cut income tax rates for earnings up to Rs 15 lakh per year.
Feb 01, 2020, 14:30 PM IST
Budget 2020: Here's how politicians, Opposition leaders are reacting
Here, we take a look at some of the reactions that have been coming in on the Union Budget presented by the Cabinet minister.
Feb 01, 2020, 14:30 PM IST
Income tax rates and slabs cut with riders in Budget 2020
Budget 2020 has given an option to the personal income tax-payers to avail of lower rates for those earning up to Rs 15 lakh per year.
Feb 01, 2020, 13:49 PM IST
Budget 2020: Nirmala Sitharaman proposes more Tejas-like trains, 100 more airports
Sitharaman said that as many as 150 trains will be running on Indian Railway network in the coming year under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model and that the request for quotation invite has already been sent.
Feb 01, 2020, 13:48 PM IST
We have insured 6.11 crore farmers under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna: Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting her second Union Budget for the fiscal year 2020-21. She said 'The government is committed to doubling farmers' income by 2022'. She proposed to allocate Rs 2.83 lakh crore for agriculture and irrigation.
Feb 01, 2020, 13:22 PM IST
Nirmala Sitharaman delivers Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar's verse as '5 jewels of good country'
The finance minister has taken three themes for the Union Budget 2020 - aspirational India, economic development and caring society.
Feb 01, 2020, 12:49 PM IST
Budget 2020: Indian Railways will set up Kisan Rail through PPP model, says FM Sitharaman
Sitharaman said, "To build a seamless national cold supply chain for perishables, Indian Railways will set up Kisan Rail through PPP model so that perishable goods can be transported quickly."
Feb 01, 2020, 12:38 PM IST
News 50: Watch top news stories of the day, Feb 01, 2020
This segment of Zee News brings the top 50 news stories of the day. Watch this video to know the latest news.
Feb 01, 2020, 12:10 PM IST
FM Sitharaman announces Rs 99,300 cr allocation for education in Budget 2020
India Budget 2020 has laid great emphasis on the education sector with Nirmala Sitharaman proposing that a total of 150 higher education institutes will have apprenticeship programmes by March 2021. Reading out the budget 2020 speech, Nirmala Sitharaman said there have been dialogues with states about the National Education Policy which will be announced soon.
Feb 01, 2020, 12:09 PM IST
Sensex plunges 279.01 points ahead of Union Budget
Market benchmark Sensex slumped over 200 points in opening session on Saturday ahead of the release of the Union Budget to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman later in the day.
Feb 01, 2020, 12:00 PM IST
Budget 2020: FM Sitharaman says 60 lakh new taxpayers added in last 2 years
India Budget 2020 speech: The FM said that GST has been the most historic of the structural reforms, adding it has been gradually maturing into a tax that has integrated the country economically. She revealed that a total 60 lakh new taxpayers have been added in the last two years and as many as 40 crore income tax returns have been filed. The finance minister also informed the Lok Sabha that 105 crore e-way bills have been generated under the GST.
Feb 01, 2020, 11:49 AM IST
