Union Budget 2019: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned in her Union Budget 2019 speech that the tax exemption limit on withdrawal will be increased for NPS from 40 per cent to 60 per cent on exit from scheme.

To simplify the documentation process to avail the pension scheme, traders will only be required to show their 12-digit Aadhaar card number and the bank account details

Union Budget 2019: If this announcement is made, then a lot of taxpayers would be affected by the change; Sitharaman may have many other surprises in her budget 'red bag'

The Budget to be presented on Friday is expected to boost spending at the cost of short-term slippage in fiscal deficit targets as she lays down the Modi 2.0 government's road map for the economy and the nation in the next five years.

The tax threshold has not been revised since 2014. Given the general increase in prices, the FM could consider increasing the tax threshold to Rs 5 lakh

Union Budget 2019: The BJP had promised a new scheme to provide collateral-free credit up to Rs 50 lakh for entrepreneurs

It would be folly to gloss over two-thirds of the reason why Indian economy is in a deep slowdown-declining consumption

The Public sector bank (PSB) employees have renewed their demand that has been pending for long after the government's decision to clear the pension issues for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) earlier this year.

Union Budget 2019: During the launch of its Sankalp Patra (2019 Lok Sabha election manifesto), BJP had promised to provide short term new agriculture loans of up to Rs 1 lakh at 0 per cent interest rate for 1-5 years on the condition of prompt repayment of the principal amount

Budget 2019: Indian economy will reach $3 trillion in current year, it is well within our capacity to reach $5 trillion economy in few years, says FM

In the latest one - 35th GST Council meeting held in Delhi on June 21 - several key decisions, including the extension of the date for filing annual GST returns by two months to August 30 and introduction of a new single-form GST return filing system from January 1, 2020, were taken.

Noting that Odisha's economy is expected to grow at 8.35 per cent in 2018-19 -- surpassing the all India growth rate of 7.2 per cent -- he said the outlay is proposed to be financed by revenue receipts of Rs 1,15,266 crore and Rs 23,734 crore through borrowings and other receipts.