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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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