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Penalty Of Equal Amount For Receiving Cash Over Rs 3 Lakh: Centre
In a bid to check generation of black money, a steep penalty awaits those accepting cash in excess of Rs 3 lakh, beginning April 1, to settle any transaction. A ban on cash transaction of more than Rs 3 lakh has been proposed in the Budget for 2017-18.
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Budget 2017 Disappoints, Maternity Benefit Programme Underfunded, Excludes Those Who Need It The Most
According to the World Health Statistics (2016), nearly 5 women die every hour in India due to pregnancy and delivery related complications. 17 per cent of maternal deaths in the world occur in India. Based on the data from the Rapid Survey on Children (2013), only 65 per cent of children are exclusively breastfed up to six months of age. Infant an...
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Nice To See NREGA Trending. But Urgent Fixes Needed.
The "highest ever allocation" to NREGA (which also led to it trending on Twitter) in the Union Budget has provided a useful opportunity to raise some pressing issues related to the implementation of the scheme. It is natural, and welcome, that the government turn to NREGA to provide much-needed relief to those whose already precarious lives have be...
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Budget 2017: Tech Firms Call for Electronics Manufacturing Ecosystem
Firms said the absence of a robust electronics manufacturing ecosystem in the country will only restrain the Make in India and Digital India vision.
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Budget 2017: Smartphone Makers Hail Higher Allocation for Electronics
The Electronics Development Fund (EDF) is at "an all-time high" of Rs. 745 crores - a move welcomed by some of the leading smartphone players.
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Budget 2017: Mobile Phones Prices Likely to See 1-2 Percent Hike, Says Counterpoint
Counterpoint has estimated that the Budget 2017-18 may raise the mobile phone prices by up to 1-2 percent.
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DUTA On Budget 2017 Proposals In Education Sector: 'Backdoor Implementation Of Discredited Draft National Education Policy'
The policy direction for education contained in the Finance Minister's budget speech yesterday is a recipe for social exclusion and decline of educational standards, said DUTA.
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Union Budget 2017: Nitish Kumar Says Disappointed, Raises Black Money Issue
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar sided with the Opposition today to harshly criticise the Union budget, calling it "utterly disappointing", and pointing out that it did not clarify how much black money or fake currency was detected since the ban on 500- and 1000- rupee notes on November 8.
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Union Budget 2017: Arun Jaitley's Budget Balm For Poor Skips Election Freebies
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Union Budget 2017 pledged to hike government spending on the rural poor and cut taxes on Wednesday, seeking to ease the pain of the notes ban in what he called it a "budget for the poor". He promised to double the income of farmers in the next five years and also to bring 10 million households out of poverty by ...
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Union Budget 2017: When Arun Jaitley's Family Rated The Budget
Union minister Arun Jaitley's budget, which boosted market sentiments, has been hailed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an "uttam" (excellent) budget that takes care of the "FUTURE" - which, he said, stands for farmers, underprivileged, transparency, urban rejuvenation, rural development, enterprise. Mr Jaitley's family gave it a thumbs up too.
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Budget 2017: Arun Jaitley's Shayari Cheered In House, Rahul Gandhi Wasn't Applauding
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's attempt at softening his budget speech with a dash of poetry was disparaged by Rahul Gandhi, who called it "shero-shayari ka budget".
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Budget 2017: CERT-Fin Welcome but Cyber-Security Needs More Focus, Say Experts
Experts said much more needs to be done in order to safeguard networks and payment gateways as India aims to go digital.
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Union Budget 2017: How Tech Companies Rated Arun Jaitley's Budget
India's Silicon Valley welcomed Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's budget speech today, praising the government's focus on boosting digital connectivity and concessions for small businesses and middle class taxpayers. In his first annual budget since the contentious ban on high-value banknotes last year that sucked out majority of the cash from Indian...
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Budget 2017: Payments Industry Hails Proposal to Cap Cash Transactions and More
The industry is particularly enthused by the removal of import duty for point of sales (PoS) machines.
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Budget 2017: 'Made in India' Mobile Phones Likely to See Price Hike
The latest budget imposes a 2 percent Special Additional Duty (SAD) on populated printed circuit boards (PCBs) for use in the manufacture of mobile phones.
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Penalty Of Equal Amount For Receiving Cash Over Rs 3 Lakh: Centre
In a bid to check generation of black money, a steep penalty awaits those accepting cash in excess of Rs 3 lakh, beginning April 1, to settle any transaction. A ban on cash transaction of more than Rs 3 lakh has been proposed in the Budget for 2017-18.
-
Budget 2017 Disappoints, Maternity Benefit Programme Underfunded, Excludes Those Who Need It The Most
According to the World Health Statistics (2016), nearly 5 women die every hour in India due to pregnancy and delivery related complications. 17 per cent of maternal deaths in the world occur in India. Based on the data from the Rapid Survey on Children (2013), only 65 per cent of children are exclusively breastfed up to six months of age. Infant an...
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Nice To See NREGA Trending. But Urgent Fixes Needed.
The "highest ever allocation" to NREGA (which also led to it trending on Twitter) in the Union Budget has provided a useful opportunity to raise some pressing issues related to the implementation of the scheme. It is natural, and welcome, that the government turn to NREGA to provide much-needed relief to those whose already precarious lives have be...
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Budget 2017: Tech Firms Call for Electronics Manufacturing Ecosystem
Firms said the absence of a robust electronics manufacturing ecosystem in the country will only restrain the Make in India and Digital India vision.
-
Budget 2017: Smartphone Makers Hail Higher Allocation for Electronics
The Electronics Development Fund (EDF) is at "an all-time high" of Rs. 745 crores - a move welcomed by some of the leading smartphone players.
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Budget 2017: Mobile Phones Prices Likely to See 1-2 Percent Hike, Says Counterpoint
Counterpoint has estimated that the Budget 2017-18 may raise the mobile phone prices by up to 1-2 percent.
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DUTA On Budget 2017 Proposals In Education Sector: 'Backdoor Implementation Of Discredited Draft National Education Policy'
The policy direction for education contained in the Finance Minister's budget speech yesterday is a recipe for social exclusion and decline of educational standards, said DUTA.
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Union Budget 2017: Nitish Kumar Says Disappointed, Raises Black Money Issue
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar sided with the Opposition today to harshly criticise the Union budget, calling it "utterly disappointing", and pointing out that it did not clarify how much black money or fake currency was detected since the ban on 500- and 1000- rupee notes on November 8.
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Union Budget 2017: Arun Jaitley's Budget Balm For Poor Skips Election Freebies
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Union Budget 2017 pledged to hike government spending on the rural poor and cut taxes on Wednesday, seeking to ease the pain of the notes ban in what he called it a "budget for the poor". He promised to double the income of farmers in the next five years and also to bring 10 million households out of poverty by ...
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Union Budget 2017: When Arun Jaitley's Family Rated The Budget
Union minister Arun Jaitley's budget, which boosted market sentiments, has been hailed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an "uttam" (excellent) budget that takes care of the "FUTURE" - which, he said, stands for farmers, underprivileged, transparency, urban rejuvenation, rural development, enterprise. Mr Jaitley's family gave it a thumbs up too.
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Budget 2017: Arun Jaitley's Shayari Cheered In House, Rahul Gandhi Wasn't Applauding
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's attempt at softening his budget speech with a dash of poetry was disparaged by Rahul Gandhi, who called it "shero-shayari ka budget".
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Budget 2017: CERT-Fin Welcome but Cyber-Security Needs More Focus, Say Experts
Experts said much more needs to be done in order to safeguard networks and payment gateways as India aims to go digital.
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Union Budget 2017: How Tech Companies Rated Arun Jaitley's Budget
India's Silicon Valley welcomed Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's budget speech today, praising the government's focus on boosting digital connectivity and concessions for small businesses and middle class taxpayers. In his first annual budget since the contentious ban on high-value banknotes last year that sucked out majority of the cash from Indian...
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Budget 2017: Payments Industry Hails Proposal to Cap Cash Transactions and More
The industry is particularly enthused by the removal of import duty for point of sales (PoS) machines.
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Budget 2017: 'Made in India' Mobile Phones Likely to See Price Hike
The latest budget imposes a 2 percent Special Additional Duty (SAD) on populated printed circuit boards (PCBs) for use in the manufacture of mobile phones.
