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New York: Indian-origin technology executive Arvind Krishna has been elected Chief Executive Officer of American IT giant IBM after a “world-class succession process”, succeeding Virginia Rometty, who described him as the right CEO for the next era at IBM and well-positioned” to lead the company into the cloud and cognitive era. The IBM Board of […]

New Delhi: India’s economic growth is expected to “strongly rebound” to 6-6.5 per cent in 2020-21 from 5 per cent estimated in the current fiscal, the Economic Survey said on Friday, adding that the government with a strong mandate has the capacity to expedite reforms. The Economic Survey 2019-20 tabled in Parliament said there are […]

New Delhi: When India’s Economic Survey, which serves as the official report of the state of the economy, talked about Kautilya’s “Arthashastra” and Thiruvalluvar’s “Thirukural”, it turned a nation with a fiscal deficit surpassing 3.3 per cent into a “dominant economic power globally” by “design”. Ironic and detached from political and fiscal reality it may […]

Mumbai: As the markets opened on Saturday on the day of the Union Budget the key equity indices traded on a flat-to-positive note. The tepid trade in the domestic indices can also be attributed to the decline in the US and Asian markets after US President Donald Trump declared a public health emergency in response […]

New Delhi: With major emphasis on transportation and the required infrastructure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday made several announcements with an allocation of Rs 1.7 lakh crore for transport infrastructure. Presenting the Union Budget for the financial year 2020-21, Sitharaman said that the government plans to monetise 12 bundles of national highways of 6,000 […]

Mumbai: Market benchmark Sensex plunged over 450 points in afternoon session on Saturday after the Union Budget projected widening of fiscal deficit for the current financial year. The 30-share BSE index was trading 452.14 points, or 1.11 per cent, lower at 40,271.35 at 1320 hours. Similarly, the 50-share NSE Nifty cracked 111.70 or 0.93 per […]

New Delhi: In a major boost for the startups’ community, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced a five-year tax holiday on employee stock ownership plan (ESOPs) for start-ups. “To boost startups, the tax burden on employees due to tax on ESOPs to be deferred by five years or till they leave the company or […]

Mumbai: The BSE Sensex plummeted 988 points on Saturday to close below the key 40,000-mark, led by an intense broad-based selloff after the Union Budget for 2020-21 failed to live up to market expectations. Experts said the Budget has been below par considering investors had extremely high expectations from the government to revive the economy. […]

New Delhi: The government has budgeted for lower dividend from the central bank and state-run lenders in the coming fiscal year, relying exclusively on an ambitious disinvestment target for resource mobilisation. Accordingly, its has provisioned Rs 89,600 crore ($12.6 billion) in dividends from the Reserve Bank of India, state-run banks and financial institutions, out of […]

New Delhi: To address concerns of small depositors over failure of banks, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday proposed to raise the insurance cover on saving deposits five times to Rs 5 lakh. The decision assumes significance in the wake of a scam in the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank affecting lakhs of customers […]

New Delhi: In an effort to lift the domestic MSMEs, keep imports down and raise revenue, the Indian government on Saturday hiked customs duty on several products, indicating a price rise soon for millions of consumers across the spectrum – from household appliances to electric vehicles and even toys. A day prior to the Budget […]

New Delhi: Further tightening the noose on global e-commerce giants like Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart, the Indian government has announced mandatory TDS deduction on e-commerce transactions for the participants on the e-marketplaces. “In order to widen and deepen the tax net, it is proposed to provide that e-commerce operator shall deduct TDS on all payments […]

New Delhi: Listing of insurance behemoth Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) may be done in the second half of the next financial year, Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar said on Sunday. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the Budget 2020-21 on Saturday announced stake sale in LIC through an initial public offer in the next fiscal. There […]

San Francisco: Co-sharing workspace company WeWork has named Indian-American real estate veteran Sandeep Mathrani as the new CEO of the company. The new role for Mathrani, who most recently served as CEO of Brookfield Properties’ retail group, will be effective from February 18. He will also be a member of the company’s Board of Directors, […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the decision not to remove Long Term Capital Gains (LTCG) tax in the Budget was because utility of this tax so far has not been tested due to poor market conditions and therefore government has not been able to assess the returns from it. She was […]