PM Modi's Goddess Lakshmi remark sparks hopes for income tax relief for middle class
The clamour for liberalising tax slabs, reducing tax rates and hiking standard deduction, among other measures, is growing ...
Budget 2025 | A ₹1 trillion largesse for India's middle class
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be hoping that the money she has put in the hands of the people will cause ...
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Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth
A head of India’s budget on February 1st, Narendra Modi asked Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, to bless the poor and the ...
Pray Maa Lakshmi to bless poor and middle class, says PM Modi ahead of Budget session
PM Modi expressed confidence that the Budget session will infuse new confidence, energy in attaining our goal of 'Viksit Bharat'.
Union Budget 2025 political reactions highlights: Goddess Lakshmi in common man’s house, says Eknath Shinde
Follow The Hindu’s live blog for all the latest highlights on political reactions to the Union Budget 2025-26.
'Goddess Lakshmi's blessings': Did PM Modi just hint at tax relief and welfare in Budget 2025?
With inflation and stagnant tax relief squeezing India’s middle class, Budget 2025 may introduce measures to ease financial ...
THIS is how Virat Kohli can play Google’s Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella The Hundred team
An American group, including Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Google's Sundar Pichai, along with IPL team owners, are investing ...
Will Budget 2025 raise the basic exemption limit, standard deduction under the new tax regime?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman may not scrap the old tax regime, but tax sops, if any, are likely to be announced only ...
Why Budget 2025 has suddenly heeded to the harassed middle-class salaried taxpayer
Delhi assembly elections will be test for the BJP, and hence union budget’s tax benefits are ushered in on assembly poll eve.
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Big tax-cut stimulus, prudent reforms can spur new-age growth
A day before the Budget, the Prime Minister had flashed a tantalising trailer of the coming bounty by saying he had prayed for Goddess Lakshmi to bless the midd ...