[wanabidii] Top Headlines: Sops ka saath, sabka vikas: Jaitley combines growth and give-aways

Daily Newsletter | Sunday, March 01, 2015 TOP HEADLINES MORE » Sops ka saath, sabka vikas: Jaitley combines growth and give-aways Going beyond the accountant’s task, Jaitley has used his budget to achieve two political objectives. He has tried to fight off the impression that the NDA government is indifferent to the poor by announcing a number of measures for them. Union Budget 2015: Highlights Finance minister Arun Jaitley presented the first full-year Budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Saturday. One-time chance on black money or 10 yrs in jail The government is working on a plan to provide a one-time opportunity to those who have black money abroad to pay taxes and repatriate their stash even as finance minister Arun Jaitley unveiled a raft of stringent measures in the Budget to crack down on offenders. CITIES MORE » Delhi: 3 killed as man sets house on fire Three people, including an infant, were killed and 11 others were seriously injured when a man set fire to a three-storey apartment in Palam Vihar on Saturday morning. Sensitive files destroyed in mysterious fire at AIIMS Thousands of files pertaining to departmental inquiries, legal documents and estate records were destroyed in a fire that broke out at AIIMS in the early hours on Saturday. Allocation to smart cities project lowered Prime Minster Narendra Modi's pet project of building 100 smart cities has only been allotted Rs 143.05 crore in the union budget Saturday - down from Rs 7,016 crore. TECH MORE » Union Budget 2015: IT Inc speaks Reactions from IT industry on Union Budget 2015. MWC 2015: Smartphone makers look beyond handsets Phone makers will seek to seduce new buyers with even smarter internet-connected watches and other wireless gadgets at the MWC 2015. Trai aims to cut mobile roaming rates by up to 80% India's telecom regulator has proposed to chop roaming call and SMS rates drastically, by around 35% and 80% respectively. SPORTS MORE » India thump UAE by 9 wickets to register third successive win Ravichandran Ashwin picked up career best figures of (4/25) before Rohit Sharma struck an unbeaten fifty to give India a nine-wicket victory over UAE in Perth. Roger Federer stuns Novak Djokovic to win Dubai Open Roger Federer beat the world number one Novak Djokovic in a colourful success which took his title haul in Dubai equal to those of Halle and Wimbledon. Ashwin's line and length was superb, says MS Dhoni Dhoni heaped praise on off-spinner Ashwin for his match-winning bowling effort in India's nine-wicket spanking of United Arab Emirates in the World Cup. BUSINESS MORE » Petrol prices hiked by Rs 3.18 per litre, diesel by Rs 3.09 Petrol price was hiked by Rs 3.18 per litre on Saturday, the third increase this year, and diesel by Rs 3.09 per litre. ITC plunges over 8% as govt hikes excise duty Cigarette stocks, led by ITC, took a severe beating on Saturday and fell over 8 per cent following the Budget proposal to increase excise duty. Sensex logs 1st Budget day gain in 4 years Modi government's first full-fledged budget triggered huge volatility in stock markets on Saturday with the benchmark sensex finally ending 141.38 points higher on promise of lower corporate tax rates — logging the the first rise on a Budget day in four years. ENTERTAINMENT MORE » India defeats UAE: Twitter cheers India scored an easy win over UAE in their third match of the World Cup tournament. Twitter cheers their victory. Other Newsletters from TOI: Entertainment | Tech | Movie Reviews | Life & Style To manage your newsletter subscription settings, click here. Copyright 2014 Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. For reprint rights: Times Syndication Service