The move can help mop up about Rs 1.2 lakh every day for the purpose.
The touch-screen BlackBerry Z10 phone, which goes on sale in India from Tuesday, will compete with iPhones and Galaxy series phones.
Former Railway Ministers were not on the same track as incumbent Sadananda Gowda, calling the Rail budget "pro-rich" and a " Modi gadget" which has nothing new to offer.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to slash corporate tax rate by about one per cent and may put an end date for certain exemptions availed by the industry.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley has delivered a Arun Jaitley delivered a bold, far sighted budget
The allocation was part of the budget 2014-15 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitely on Thursday.
A strong showing will be vital to Narendra Modi's chances of a second term.
The words that appeared more often in the speech included tax, income, lakh and crore.
Markets rallied because of huge inflows by overseas investors.
The divestment department has lined up a host of companies.
Encouraging domestic financial savings through focused measures would help mobilise long term resources for funding infrastructure and economic development.
The minister of state said the requirement of the ministry was more and resources were limited.
The Union Budget 2016-17 has cheered the NBFC sector
Boost to dairy sector will generate jobs
It is time to take a few macroeconomic risks to kick start the growth.
Major focus will be on adequately funding existing schemes to ensure their timely completion before the next General Elections.
The capital outlay to cover the modernisation programmes have got a hike of 10.05 per cent.
Petrol price will go up by Rs 3.18 per litre, diesel by Rs 3.09.
Overall, the populist/ electoral elements in the budget have remained measured with the finance minister being clearly aware of a higher-than-expected rise in oil prices, less-than-planned tax revenues and the wider deficit for FY 17/18, constraining his margin of maneuver, says Claude Claude Smadja.
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To begin, the Budget has no doubt attempted to address uncertainty.
The Budget decides to take the lead in revving up infrastructure.
Arun Jaitley will aim for jumps in other revenue streams for the government.
Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget in Parliament on Saturday.
There is no end to excitement onboard the Seabreacher, a two-seat submersible watercraft, elegantly shaped liked dolphins, whales and sharks.
The allocation for health ministry for 2017-18 is Rs 47,352.51 crore in comparison to allocation in 2016-17 of Rs 37,061.55 crore.
Investors and manufacturers have long advocated the GST.
Jaitley began his speech by saying that today is the auspicious day of Basant Panjami and that "spring is the season of optimism".
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley underlined that defence of every square inch of our mother land comes before anything else.
For the first time in the history of Budget-making in India, a single Budget will touch 65 crore Indians, says Shailesh Haribhakti.
There is a link between objectives and commitments.
After several delays, it will be completed by Jan 2017.
...for others it would be an incentive to participate more robustly in equities and other tax instruments.
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The party said it is "considering opposing" the proposal for taxing the PF corpus in Parliament.
Modi's government is also working on a universal health coverage plan that would provide all citizens with free drugs and diagnostic treatment.
Budget will get a welcome reception from the international biz.
Come November and you can travel to Agra, the city of Taj Mahal, by train in just 90 minutes, cutting the journey time by 30 minutes at least.
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