New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday signed the Criminal Law Amendment Bill which gives India a strong anti-rape law. The Criminal Law Amendment Bill was earlier passed by the two Houses of Parliament. The massive public anger and uproars following the December 16 gangrape of the Delhi braveheart forced the drafting and eventual passing of this new Bill. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013 was moved in the Rajya...
12:58 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The new tax policy and charges announced in Union Budget and Railway Budget 2013-14 have become applicable from Monday. Sparing the common man and taxing the super-rich - both individuals and corporate houses, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has increased social spending but stayed away from blatant pre-poll sops in his Budget. ...
01:20 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Travelling in trains will become costlier from Monday as the hike in reservation, tatkal, cancellation fees and some other charges announced in the rail budget will come into effect. ...
03:55 AM, Apr 01, 2013
After selling India story to investors in Hong Kong, Singapore and Europe, Finance Minister P Chidambaram is leaving for Japan on Monday to attract foreign investment. Chidambaram would meet his Japanese counterpart and institutional investors during his three-day official visit to Japan, sources said. ...
01:46 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Travelling in trains is set to become costlier from next week as the hike in reservation fee and superfast charges announced in the Rail Budget come into effect from April 1. ...
09:11 PM, Mar 30, 2013
The first half of the Budget session of the 2012-13 ends on Friday. The House will meet next on April 22. Important reform bills such as the Food Security Bill and the land bill still remain pending. ...
08:15 AM, Mar 22, 2013
The BJP on Thursday created a ruckus in the Himachal Pradesh assembly, expressing dissatisfaction over the chief minister's reply to a discussion on the 2013-14 state budget. ...
04:15 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Delhi unit of BJP on Wednesday criticised the 2013-14 budget presented by the city government charging it is full of misleading and false data and old projects have been repeated. ...
12:26 AM, Mar 21, 2013
British Finance Minister George Osborne's market sensitive statement to Parliament on the budget was leaked on the internet minutes before his speech started. A copy of what appeared to be the front page of the London Evening Standard, with full details of economic forecasts and changes to taxes, appeared on the blog of political commentator Guido Fawkes at least fifteen minutes ahead of Osborne's speech on Wednesday. ...
08:58 PM, Mar 20, 2013
With focus on indigenisation to avoid scams in foreign acquisition, Defence Ministry on Wednesday said it will be pumping Rs 15,000 crore to augment domestic military production for systems such as the indigenous 155mm artillery guns. ...
07:42 PM, Mar 20, 2013
No new tax was levied and chilly spray, desi ghee and LED lights will be cheaper with Delhi government on Wednesday proposing to reduce or eliminate VAT on them in its Rs 37,450 crore budget, which focused on social sector in an election year as Congress seeks a record fourth term in power. Presenting the budget in the state assembly, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit amid occasional protests by opposition BJP...
07:38 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Undeterred by adverse political developments, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said there will be no let up in the government's efforts to continue with the economic reforms and he will go ahead with his meetings with foreign investors to persuade them to invest in India. ...
02:50 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will have to do a balancing act when he presents the budget on Monday with revenues falling due to ban on mining activity and some of the recent measures taken by the government putting strain on state finances. ...
05:53 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Cricketer and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar may not be able to attend the first half of the Budget session of Parliament due to his engagements in the on-going India Australia cricket series. The Rajya Sabha on Friday granted him leave from February 21 to March 7. Tendulkar has not attended the House for a single day in the ongoing Budget session and only one week is left for the...
02:21 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Seeking to dispel fears over the state of economy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said the country will return to high growth of 7 per cent in two years and promised adequate public spending to stimulate it. Replying to a debate on the Budget 2013-14 in the Lok Sabha, he said the government was committed to ensuring reduction of fiscal deficit from 5.2 per cent to 3 per cent...
11:15 PM, Mar 14, 2013
India's recent budget should have a softening effect on inflation, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Duvvuri Subbarao said on Wednesday. "Given the circumstances, I think it's (the budget) very measured and responsible," he told students in London. ...
10:36 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Justifying the hike in charges on various counts announced recently, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday hinted at further increase in surcharge on bookings and cancellations for balanced development of the country's largest transporter which has "limited resources". ...
06:20 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A young woman who was thrashed and abused by Punjab Police officials in full public view in Punjab's Tarn Taran district recently on Wednesday tried to barge into the Punjab Assembly complex during the ongoing budget session. ...
02:25 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The budget session of the Andhra Pradesh state legislature began on Wednesday on a stormy note with the opposition Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) disrupting state governor ESL Narasimhan's address to the joint session of both houses. ...
11:40 AM, Mar 13, 2013
