The budget proposals aimed at encouraging the production of lab-grown diamonds (LGD) including an import duty cut for the raw material will help create a self-reliant diamond industry, industry representatives said on Wednesday. The budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed a major concern of the LGD industry regarding the 5 per cent import [...]
India's digital ecosystem for skilling will be further expanded with the launch of a unified Skill India Digital platform, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Wednesday, with the Budget laying the roadmap to train lakhs of youth in the next three years. Presenting the Union Budget for 2023-24, Sitharaman said stipend support will be provided [...]
Amid the broad news around Union Budget 2023, the shares of Adani Group firms extended their blood bath falling up to 30% on Wednesday. This is despite the fact that Adani Enterprises cleared the hard test of FPO by receiving a 100% subscription. As of 15:00 IST, the flagship Adani Enterprises was down a whopping [...]
The shares of Shree Ganesh Remedies Ltd ended the volatile session on Tuesday and ended marginally higher at Rs 254.50 levels. The shares remained in focus after the company announced its Q3 results and corporate action. The company reported a 6 percent jump in its total revenue which stood at Rs 23.39 Crore in Q3FY23, [...]
The Union budget for 2023-24 has allocated Rs 1,258.68 crore for various heads of expenditure of the Union cabinet, including salaries, sumptuary and travel by ministers and entertainment of foreign state guests. The amount includes the expenditure for the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the National Security Council Secretariat, the office of the Principal Scientific Advisor [...]
Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal on Wednesday criticised the Union Budget 2023-24 saying the long-pending demands of the southern state were completely ignored and that the proposals were not beneficial for people at the grassroots level. Addressing a press conference here, he pointed out that allocations in major schemes including Mahatma Gandhi National Rural [...]
Total investment by two public sector enterprises under Ministry of New & Renewable Energy is pegged 37 per cent higher at Rs 37,828.15 crore for 2023-24. This is compared with revised estimate (RE) of Rs 27,547.47 crore total investment by the two firms -- IREDA and SECI -- for 2022-23. The budget estimate was Rs [...]
A Urban Infrastructure Development Fund (UIDF) will be set up to ramp up infrastructure in tier-2 and tier-3 cities with an annual allocation of Rs 10,000 crore, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Wednesday. Presenting the Union Budget 2023-24, Sitharaman said states will be encouraged to leverage resources from the grants of the 15th Finance [...]
NIFTY Bank index closed 0.35% down or around 142 points to 40,513 points on Wednesday. The finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2023 in the parliament today. This comes as a surprise because the banking majors had surged during the early hours of trading. In early morning trades, the benchmark bank index jumped [...]
To enhance business activities in GIFT IFSC, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced a host of measures, including establishing a subsidiary of EXIM Bank for trade re-financing and allowing acquisition financing by IFSC Banking Units of foreign banks. Besides, she proposed an amendment to International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) Act for statutory provisions [...]
