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FULL COVERAGE: Railway Budget 2008 Economic Survey
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| Of quarantines, basements and the Budget |
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| Every year in mid-February, a motley group comprising top officials of the finance ministry, experts, printing press technicians and stenographers pack their bags and head off to North Block, the
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| Rahul meets PM on rural jobs scheme |
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| First, it was Congress President Sonia Gandhi publicly indicating to Finance Minister P Chidambaram the direction she wanted the budget to take ' more for farmers and women.
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| Assessing the Budget |
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| Any Budget can be evaluated on a number of criteria. Here, briefly, is a check-list of benchmarks by which today's pronouncements can be scored. First, from the perspective of the finance ministry's
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| Controlled foreign cos on radar |
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| FM may introduce rules to tax income from Indian-owned foreign subsidiaries.
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| Rs 5,000-6,000 cr to ease states' CST woes |
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| The central government is likely to provide budgetary support of Rs 5,000-6,000 crore and allow states to tax more services to compensate them for the revenue loss due to a reduction in the central
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| BUDGETWISHLIST: Banking |
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| CEO-SPEAK: R P Singh, CMD, Punjab & Sind Bank
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| Top PSU shipyard likely to get Rs 830 crore |
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| The central government is likely to announce a restructuring-cum-revival package for Hindustan Shipyard Ltd (HSL), the largest public sector shipyard, at a cost of around Rs 830 crore in the coming
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| Agrarian crisis, price rise to dominate proceedings |
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| The shadow of events in Maharashtra, unabated cases of farmers' suicides, continuing agrarian crisis and price rise will dominate proceedings in Parliament during the first part of the Budget session.
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| President's address courts 'aam adami' |
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| Skirting commitments on all controversial issues like Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Agreement, the government today made it clear that pro-people, inclusive social and
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| EoU tax break extension unlikely |
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| Finance ministry opposed to exemptions in principle: Official.
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| Budget tips to simplify Cenvat |
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| An important hurdle on the way to introducing GST at the Central level is the absence of a comprehensive goods tax, that is, a comprehensive availability of input tax credit of Central Excise duty to
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| A V Rajwade: Wooing the aam aadmi |
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| Surely car owners who get cheap petrol and rich farmers who get free water and power can't be aam?
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| Sunil Jain: In the name of the poor |
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| With Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi saying that the government needs to keep in mind the interests of the poor and the farmers, it is almost certain the government will have a substantial rural
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| Tightrope walking |
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| Every year, as the annual Budget draws closer, expectations across all sections of the society start building up. This year too, it is no different. What is different this time, though, is that the
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| Experts want settlement panel's powers restored |
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| Tax experts are looking forward to the finance ministry restoring some of the powers of the income tax settlement commission, whose role was drastically reduced in Budget 2007-08.
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