For the quarter under review, its core net interest income grew by 11 percent to Rs 3,406 crore on the back of loan book being stable and a 0.03 percent narrowing of the net interest margin (NIM) to 4.12 percent

For people to benefit, the budget needs overhauling to create jobs; revive small businesses; address poverty and health and education deprivations. Pursuing the existing paradigm of growth may push GDP and stock markets up without improving the living standards of the vast majority

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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

Of the last 10 budgets, the stock market has closed lower six times. Twice the indices closed over 1% lower (2012, 2013). This excludes Budget 2020's 2.4% drop in Sensex, the worst budget-day plunge since 2009

ICRA expects India's fiscal deficit to widen to Rs 14.5 lakh crore or 7.5 per cent of GDP in FY21 and 5 per cent of GDP in the next fiscal

The former Congress chief's attack came a day after petrol and diesel prices in the country touched new all-time highs after rates were increased for the fourth time in the week

Medium and small liquor manufactures have said that the proposed stringent excise policy means that only large MNC liquor players would be able to register and sell in Delhi market

Given the skewed finances of the central government owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no elbow room at all to provide any relief to the common taxpayer

The Union Budget 2021 should reflect concrete and enthused government efforts to boost both consumption and demand for an overall push to the economy

Excise duty collection during April-November 2020, was at Rs 1,96,342 crore, up from Rs 1,32,899 crore mop-up during the same period in 2019, according to data from the Controller General of Accounts (CGA)

The court stated that CBDT can take a lenient approach in terms of consequences of late filing of tax audit reports; \"We leave it to the better discretion of the CBDT,\" it said

With India about to roll out its vaccination programme, the accruals of the economic benefits would be significant, especially to sectors hit hard during the pandemic, said ASSOCHAM Secretary General Deepak Sood

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

The developers, who take benefit of the 50 per cent waiver in premium in construction projects for the next one year will have to pay the entire stamp duty amount on behalf of customers

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With this, the central government has released a total of Rs 60,000 crore so far to all States and UTs, which amounts to more than 50 per cent of their estimated GST compensation shortfall

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