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01 Feb

Deduction Of Rs 1.5 Lakh On Home Loan Interest Extended Till March 2021

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Aiming to boost the affordable housing demand, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday proposed to extend the date of availing an additional Rs 1.5 lakh tax deduction on home loan interest by one more year till March 2021.The additional deduction of Rs 1.5 lakh over and above Rs 2 lakh was introduced in the last year's budget. This was allowed for those buying homes for the first time and of up to Rs 45 lakh and made applicable for home loans sanctioned till March this year.The finance minister also announced that builders will get tax holiday on affordable housing projects…

01 Feb

Budget 2020: Insurance Cover For Bank Depositors To Be Raised To Rs 5 Lakh

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to increase the insurance cover for bank depositors to Rs 5 lakh from the existing Rs 1 lakh. The existing Reserve Bank of India rules stipulate that in case of a bank failure, each depositor is insured up to a maximum of Rs 1 lakh for both principal and interest amount. The cover of Rs 1 lakh is irrespective of the deposit held by the customer in the savings or fixed deposit account and has been in force since 1993, when the cover was raised from Rs 30,000 to Rs 1 lakh.

01 Feb

Non-Resident Indians Allowed To Invest In Government Securities

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To increase participation of non-resident Indians, some categories of government securities will be opened fully for non-resident investors, apart from being available to domestic investors as well.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced in the Union Budget on Saturday that NRIs will be allowed to invest in certain categories of GSecs.One of the Budget proposals is that the limit for foreign portfolio investment (FPI) in corporate bonds, currently at 9 per cent of outstanding stock, will be increased to 15 per cent of the outstanding stock of corporate bonds. This will in turn open avenues for foreign investments in the debt market.

31 Jan

Economic Survey Predicts Pick-Up In Growth To 6-6.5% In 2020-21: 10 Things To Know

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The government's Economic Survey 2020 pegged the gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 5 per cent in the current financial year, which it said would pick up to 6-6.5 per cent in financial year ending March 2021. That marked a sharp downward revision from the estimate of 7 per cent growth for the current financial year in last year's Economic Survey. Prepared by Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian and his team, the Economic Survey 2019-20 comes a day ahead of the presentation of the first full-year Union Budget of the Modi 2.0 administration. The government may need to relax its…

31 Jan

Government Revises GDP Growth For 2018-19 To 6.1% From 6.8%

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The government on Friday revised the country's economic growth for financial year 2018-19 to 6.1 per cent from 6.8 per cent estimated earlier mainly due to deceleration in mining, manufacturing and farm sectors."Real GDP or GDP at constant (2011-12) prices for the years 2018-19 and 2017-18 stand at Rs 139.81 lakh crore and Rs 131.75 lakh crore, respectively, showing growth of 6.1 per cent during 2018-19 and 7.0 per cent during 2017-18," the National Statistical Office said in revised national account data released on Friday.Under the first revision released in January 2019, real GDP or GDP at constant (2011-12) prices…

31 Jan

Economic Survey Hints At Relaxing Fiscal Deficit Target To Revive Growth

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The Economic Survey 2019-20 warns against a widening fiscal deficit, stating that the government may need to relax its target for the current financial year to revive growth. The Economic Survey, tabled in parliament a day before the Budget, however pegs economic growth at 5 per cent in the current financial year - lower than its estimate of 7 per cent last year - and then projects it to pick up to 6-6.5 per cent in the next financial year. In 2019, the government targeted to contain the fiscal deficit at Rs. 7.04 lakh crore - or 3.3 per cent…

30 Jan

Start-Ups That Burn Investor Money, Disappear Won’t Get Second Chance: Ratan Tata

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Industrialist Ratan Tata on Tuesday warned that start-ups which burn investors' money and disappear will not get a second or a third chance.Mr Tata, who also invests in start-ups, also said old-age businesses will recede and the young founders of innovative companies are the future leaders of the Indian industry.The comments from Mr Tata come at a time when many start-ups have been blamed for what is termed as "cash burn", wherein the optimism of making money in the future makes venture funds to invest in such companies, and the companies keep incurring losses. At its peak, e-commerce major Flipkart…

30 Jan

Maruti Suzuki Profit Rises 5% To Rs 1,565 Crore In December Quarter; Misses Estimates

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Maruti Suzuki, the country's largest car maker, on Tuesday reported that its net profit rose 5 per cent year-on-year to Rs 1,565 crore in the quarter ended December 2019. The profit primarily came on account of cost reduction efforts, lower commodity prices and improved capacity utilization, Maruti Suzuki said in a press release. However, higher sales promotion expenses and lower fair value gain on invested surplus capped the profitability. Analysts on average had expected the country's largest car maker to report a profit of Rs 1,647 crore, according to Refinitiv data, news agency Reuters reported.

29 Jan

Nirbhaya Fund to be used for sensitization programmes

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A recent report suggested that money from the Nirbhaya Fund has hardly been utilised in several states. After witnessing the horrifying gangrape and murder of a woman veterinarian in Telangana, States have decide to implement more women safety measures, one of which is conducting sex education an sensitization programmes in schools. Another incident that surfaced was the whatsapp messages circulated among boys of an elite school in Mumbai where terms like, “gangbang”, “homophobia” was used and women were termed “trash”. Dr Srishti Saha, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Fortis Hospital Anandapur explains why sex education and gender sensitization among youth is…

27 Jan

Current Situation Of Air India Is Very Fragile, Says Civil Aviation Minister

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Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, addressing the media on Monday, described the current situation of the national carrier as “very fragile”. The government had earlier released the preliminary information memorandum (PIM) for seeking expression of interest for strategic disinvestment of Air India. Mr Puri added that Air India is under a debt trap due to accumulated debt of around Rs 60,000 crore.After failing to sell majority stake in Air India in 2018, the government has worked on critical areas this time around to make the disinvestment bid more attractive to the prospective bidder, Mr Puri said.