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Taking stock of Stock Markets

Sudhir Raikar/11:13,Apr 09, 2012

The Finance Minister’s 2012 Union Budget may have received flak for its overtly populist stance but among other things, it makes a radical commitment towards deepening the capital market reforms in the country. This progressive gesture deserves unconditional applause from all quarters.

India Infoline Weekly Newsletter - May 25, 2012

India Infoline News Service/18:41,May 25, 2012

Whether UPA II manages to improve its scorecard in the remaining two years of its term is anybody’s guess. Things have not exactly been rosy for the Congress-led regime, and the biggest victim of the policy paralysis has been the rupee.

Budget Highlights

Focus needs to be paid more in making vocational training affordable and accessible in the rural ..

Move to allow QFIs invest directly in corporate bond market will enhance liquidity.

While I believe that there should be no room for complacency, nor any excuse for what happens in ..

Income Tax slabs for individuals: Rs 2 lakh-5 lakh: 10%; Rs 5-10 lakh: 20%; and above Rs 10 lakh 30%

Budget Expectations

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Out of the total health care spends of Rs 350,000 crores per annum in India, only 3% is being contributed through Health Insurance.

The planned detangling of myriad of taxation laws and rules through GST and DTC too has been stalled. Policy movement on that front too is highly anticipated in the upcoming budget.

This year’s Union Budget will be keenly followed as everyone wants the Government to take concrete measures to tame inflation.

For starters, the Finance Minister is staring at an estimated 100-125bps spike in the budgeted fi..

Even as all eyes are on the forthcoming Union Budget, our ears tune in to make sense of the music..

Enactment for Special Residential Zones (SRZs) to incentivise the growth of housing stock at targ..

Janta's Expectations

I do not know why we are still having the archaic system of tax rates, exemptions etc. We should just fix flat tax rates as per the ...
Posted By: Raju S A  Dubai|Mar 18, 2012 14:00

obiously we are expecting to reach a limit of upto 5lacs Excemptions and further to go on 10%, 20% and 30%......
Posted By: Manu M  Surat|Mar 16, 2012 13:36

Being a salaried person a expect to increase tax slab .The tax exemption should be 5 Lac and max tax rate shall be 20% above 10 Lacs.
Posted By: M K BHA..  BHOPAL|Mar 16, 2012 10:35

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Janta's Reaction

... WE WANT INFLATION RATE LESS,.... AGAR AISE HI RATE BADHTA RAHA TO HOW CAN A COMMON MAN CAN SURVIVE??? MEHGHAI KUM HONI CH...
Posted By: SHAISHA..  AHMEDABAD|Mar 20, 2012 16:28

Change in Tax slab gives benefit for the ppl who are earning more than 8 lakh.
Posted By: Kamal  Chennai|Mar 17, 2012 11:58

govt. only know that how to hikes the prices in all sectors ,Ek aam aadmi nahi survive kar sakta,,,,,, janta jaagoooooo
Posted By: Anjali ..  Udaipur (raj.)|Mar 16, 2012 15:50

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Industry Reactions

Allowing basic banking licences to micro-finance institutions may also make their services accessible to more Indians specially in remote areas where ...

More over extending the 1% interest rate subsidy which was provided for loans towards affordable housing is also a positive step.

Exemptions of countervailing duties were provided specifically for solar thermal projects but solar thermal projects are a small part of solar power g...

Budget Glossary

AD-VALOREM DUTIES : These are the duties determined as a certain percentage of price of the product.

ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT : "It is a statement of receipts and expenditure of states for the financial year, presented to Parliament by the government. It is divided into three parts: Consolidated Fund, Contingency Fund and Public Account.

Finance Ministers of India

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee
(1982-1985, Feb 2009-May 2009, May 2009-Continuing)

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is a prominent leader of India National Congress. He has a degree in law from the...

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Company Price(Rs.) Chg(%)
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd 1220.80 [0.1]
Reliance Industries Ltd 691.20 [0.6]
Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd 257.05 [0.3]
Coal India Ltd 313.55 1.2
ITC Ltd 231.85 [0.6]

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