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

Fiscal deficit is languishing at Rs 10,75,507 crore or 135.1 per cent of the budget estimate 2021, as of November 2020. It has largely soared on account of low realisation of revenues because of the COVID-19 pandemic

GST collections will be in the range of Rs 1.21-1.23 lakh crore and may still have an upside, according to economist at State Bank of India

Centre had planned a disinvestment mop-up of Rs 2.1 lakh crore this fiscal, by selling stake in several public sector enterprises, but the plans have been stalled due to several factors

Govt aims to vaccinate 30 crore priority individuals by August 2021 and 50 crore private individuals by 2022-end. SBI think tank says India will require around Rs 56,000-72,000 crore to administer vaccines to 80 crore people

Stocks to watch today on January 5: HDFC, Bajaj Finance, Edelweiss Financial, Sun Pharma, NBCC, L&T among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Tuesday's trading session

The share of indirect taxes, which mainly comprise of levy on goods and services as well as import duty, has risen while that of direct taxes - made up of corporate and personal income tax - has gone down in 2020

According to Finance Secretary Ajay Pandey, the officials were able to arrest tax evaders because of the data taken from agencies like Income Tax Department, Customs unit, FIU and GST department, and banks

The revenue department has already started sharing such information among its wings - direct tax, indirect tax and customs departments

The searches resulted in the seizure of finished gutkha and raw materials such as chuna, sada kattha, tobacco leaves etc, valued at Rs. 4.14 cr approximately, the statement said

Customers never charged for IUC, unlimited calls to continue as before: Airtel Telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Friday said it has never charged its customers separately for IUC and that the unlimited calling benefits will continue for subscribers without any change. The comments came a day after Reliance Jio announced that calls by its users to other networks in India will become free from Friday, as the Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) regime ends. Health Minister reviews preparedness ...

GST collections in December 2020 showed an unexpected year-on-year growth of 11.6 per cent to Rs 1.15 lakh crore, the highest monthly GST collection so far

This is the highest ever collection since the implementation of the countrywide tax in July 2017, the Finance Ministry said in a statement on Friday, January 1

Asian and European equities were mostly positive today as hopes for additional US economic stimulus and a coronavirus vaccine kept market sentiment positive

India Stock Market Highlights Today: HDFC twins, Reliance Industries were among the top losers and Tata Steel, Titan and Asian Paints were among the top gainers

If we surpass over Rs 1,30,000 crore in November and December, we can confidently say that we have reached an economic rebound to pre-COVID-19 days

SEBI extends settlement scheme for illiquid stock option cases till December 31In view of the large-scale disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, markets regulator SEBI has extended till December 31 the one-time settlement scheme for entities that executed reversal of trades in stock options segment of the BSE during 2014 and 2015. The settlement scheme, introduced by the regulator in July, commenced on August 1, 2020 and was supposed to end on October 31, 2020.Won't shy away from rate...

For the April-November 2019 period, the Centre had already released Rs 1,15,096 crore to compensate states and UTs on account of revenue loss due to implementation of the Goods and Services Tax

Share Market Update: Extending fall for the seventh straight session, BSE 30-share S&P Sensex closed 153 points lower at 38,144 and Nifty50 ended 69 points lower at 11,132.

Budget 2020: In today's speech, the FM broke her own record and delivered the longest Union Budget speech, which was 159 minutes long