Fuel prices have been rising steadily since February 9. In the 14 increases since then, petrol and diesel rates have gone up by Rs 4.88 per litre and diesel by Rs 4.81 per litre in Delhi

Regular petrol rate crossed the Rs 90 mark for the first time in Delhi at Rs 90.19 per litre as against Rs 89.88 on Thursday, while diesel price climbed to Rs 80.60 a litre, as per data from the Indian Oil Corporation website

Farmers, labourers, traders are being sidelined and the path is being cleared for two-three businessmen, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said

Amid ongoing agitation by farmers demanding the repeal of three contentious farm laws, the finance minister informed that not a single APMC has been shut in any state

On GST compensation, trust is lost. The Centre has cut central schemes in the name of reorganisation. They even cut our devolution, which is a constitutional right. They increased cess and surcharge, said West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra

In Mumbai, petrol is retailed at Rs 94.12 per litre, for Rs 89.96 in Chennai and Rs 88.92 in Kolkata. Diesel costs Rs 84.63 per litre in Mumbai, Rs 82.90 per litre in Chennai and Rs 81.31 per litre in Kolkata, according to the Indian Oil price notification

Economists, CEOs, consultants, sector specialists interpret Nirmala Sitharaman's 'Never-before' Budget

Budget 2021 has taken care of the bare necessities that are needed to ensure that the healthcare infrastructure of the country is given a booster dose to make it infallible to pandemics like what we are going through

State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, Larsen & Toubro, Hindalco, UPL and Bharat Petroleum Corporation were among the top gainers today

This year's budget was in the midst of the pandemic, but stayed on the path of 'AtmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan' that supplements the Make in India vision of the government

Experts say the likelihood of a tax hike for tobacco products and cigarettes was low in this year's budget because it was hiked sharply in Budget 2020

Bold measures have been proposed in the budget, such as privatisation of two public sector banks and a general insurance company in this fiscal, higher FDI in the insurance sector, exhibiting India's confidence to be globally competitive

Whilst the government's proposals are moving in the right direction, further intervention is the need of the hour to aid significant sectoral growth

The Union Budget for 2021-22 admirably rises to the challenge of creating an enabling environment to deliver on the promise of National Infrastructure Pipeline in the next few years

While the government has reduced customs duty on gold and silver, gold and silver dore bar, among others, it has proposed an Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess (AIDC) on them.

Union Budget 2021 gold: Currently, gold attracts 12.5 per cent import duty and 3 per cent GST and total duty and GST implication works out to be 15.5 per cent

The BSE Sensex rose over 2,000 points in intraday trade and NSE Nifty breached 14,000 levels as investors cheered Budget proposal to raise FDI limit in insurance to 74 per cent, crappage policy for vehicles, as well as privatisation of two nationalised banks

Union budget 2021 India Inc expectations: Industry representatives are hopeful that the Union Budget 2021 would play a vital role in achieving the objective of putting India on a sustained high-growth trajectory

Budget 2021: In order to replenish its coffers, the government is likely to announce a coronavirus cess. Preliminary talks on revenue increasing measures have been held

Union Budget 2021 Highlights: Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that the government had only marginally raised health funding, which when adjusted to inflation becomes nil