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India ends century-long separation, brings railways under unitary budget

Experts say the move would give the railways the flexibility to make its own pricing policy

Railways to save Rs 10,000 crore after budget merger

Railways pays about Rs 10k crore a year to the FinMin for getting the gross budgetary support

Budget merger: Railway autonomy to stay

Rail, FinMin officials discussing issues like pension, dividend, budgetary support

Budget overhaul: Finance Ministry readies presentation before PM

The finance ministry will float a Cabinet note on this after the Prime Minister gives a go-ahead

Budget 2017: Stock brokers urge centre not to increase tax burden

A key demand of trading members is to reduce the dividend distribution tax (DDT) on listed firms

Pre-Budget Rally defies history, odds

Market players say share prices are rallying on sky-high expectations from this year's Budget

Niti Aayog to come out with 3-year action plan soon

Action plan will also take into account the impact of demonetisation on the economy

The Budget should cut corporate tax rates drastically

However, the Confederation of Indian Industry has urged a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 18%

Budget 2017: Government likely to consider dole for jobless poor

The unemployment benefit is planned as a substitute for the universal basic income

Don't fritter away macro gains via giveaways: Urjit Patel

He said steep interest rate subventions, large credit guarantees would impede allocation of funds

Budget 2017 to augur well for real estate sector, buyers: Abhishek Goenka

Goenka, a partner PwC, also said that GST's impact on the sector would be positive overall

NAREDCO seeks infra status for housing sector in Union Budget

Govt should introduce necessary reforms in the upcoming Union Budget to revive real estate sector

Job creation likely to be key thrust area of this Budget

This would allow workers in agriculture and services to migrate to the formal sector

Law on taxing indirect transfer of shares likely to be amended

Industry trackers expect Budget 2017 to see the announcement of the amendment

State governments seek more borrowing freedom to fund growth plans

Arun Jaitley has also been urged by the states to release funds under centrally sponsored schemes

Government set to overhaul public spending

Govt intends to uplift 10 million households, across 50,000 panchayats, out of poverty by 2019

Finance ministry's Twitter poll on budget gets most votes for farm focus

It trumped infrastructure, manufacturing and information and technology mid-way through the poll

'Banks want Budget to boost digital transactions, disincentivise cash'

SBI has also installed at least 45,000 point of sale machines in the last 50 days

NDA considers universal basic income for all citizens

In September last year, CEA Arvind Subramanian had spoken of the UBI scheme 'as an exciting idea'

Govt may abolish 'place of effective management' tax

Instead, the concept of 'Controlled Foreign Corporation' is likely to be introduced