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Useful tips for filing your tax returns!  

14 Mar 2013, 1.56 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

There is a misconception among some salaried individuals that because the employer has deduced tax at source they are not required to file tax returns...

Budget 2013-14: All you need to know about tax-savings other than 80C  

14 Mar 2013, 1.56 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

It’s that time of the year again when one needs to begin calculating their tax liabilities. However before you do so, remember to analyze the variou...

Budget 2013-14: Tax amendments expected in Union Budget 2013  

14 Mar 2013, 1.55 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The government has been trying to make the tax laws simpler every year; however, there are numerous amendments required in the tax laws. ...

SC ruling positive; govt must share private burden: NCC   

13 Mar 2013, 7.29 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

YD Murthy, executive VP-finance, NCC says in an interview to CNBC-TV18 that the apex court ruling will quicken the implementation of 25 road projects ...

Budget Analysis: Budget impact on you and your investments  

13 Mar 2013, 10.08 am  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

There was nothing exceptional in this budget. There are many announcements some of which will have a positive impact on our wallets and some that will...

Relax! India will outperform by year-end: Credit Suisse   

13 Mar 2013, 9.48 am  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

"Personally, my own strategy is to buy the dips. So with recent correction, we actually are highlighting India now as one of the four cheapest markets...

Remove 3% additional excise on SUVs: Praful Patel to FM   

12 Mar 2013, 10.49 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

In the Union Budget 2012 Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced an additional excise duty on special utility vehicles (SUVs). Heavy Industries minis...

Road ministry initiates process to establish a regulator  

12 Mar 2013, 9.51 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

The roads ministry has initiated the process to establish a roads regulator. This proposal was first announced in Union Budget 2013. ...

India has ingredients for 8%-growth recipe: Montek  

12 Mar 2013, 12.15 pm  |  Source: PTI

India has all the requirements to return to a GDP growth-rate of 8 percent in the coming years, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Sing...

Budget's 3000km-road project target doable in 6 months: NCC   

12 Mar 2013, 12.15 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

The target set by the Finance Minister of constructing 3000 kms of roads in the first six month of the current financial year is doable, believes YD M...

Budget Analysis: 'Nothing can stop India from becoming 3rd largest economy'  

12 Mar 2013, 12.15 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

P Chidambaram has joined the league of other personalities like Barack Obama through Google Hangout to reach out to people....

Budget 2013: Govt borrowing, spending cuts spook mkt: Eastspring   

12 Mar 2013, 12.15 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

Krishna Kumar of Eastspring Investments says, on CNBC-TV18, that the market has already started to price-in FM’s baby reform steps....

CNBC-TV18 maintains numero uno position on Budget Day  

12 Mar 2013, 12.15 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

CNBC-TV18 has emerged number 1 on Budget day and has captured 57 percent market share during the Budget speech, according to TV Ratings agency TAM. ...

Budget Analysis: FinMin to monitor investments by PSUs, pvt sector every qtr  

12 Mar 2013, 12.15 pm  |  Source: PTI

Aiming to restart the growth engine, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said he will monitor every quarter the investment plans of public and privat...

Tax exemption for securitisation trusts to boost MFs  

12 Mar 2013, 12.15 pm  |  Source: PTI

With the Budget provisions to exempt securitisation trusts from taxation, mutual fund houses are likely to enter into securitisation deals after stayi...

Fiscal deficit top FII concern even post Budget: Deutsche   

12 Mar 2013, 12.15 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

Dixit Joshi, head, Asia equities, Deutsche Bank says that government policy action led Indian markets higher in Q4CY12 though current weakness in the ...

Ten positive aspects of Budget for Indian economy  

12 Mar 2013, 12.15 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The budget for financial year 2013-14 has been widely debated. There are different and varied views on the budget. ...

Budget Analysis: GST roadmap hazy, 6% GDP target ambitious: Yashwant Sinha   

12 Mar 2013, 9.35 am  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

Senior BJP leader and former finance minister (in Chandra Shekhar’s Cabinet) Yashwant Sinha is not too hopeful that GST will be implemented anytime ...

CAD is likely to be 4.3% for 2012-13: Barclays  

12 Mar 2013, 8.59 am  |  Source: PTI

India's current account deficit is likely to be 4.3 percent of the GDP, with "risks biased towards a wider deficit", Barclays said today....

India's exports grow by 4.25% in Feb  

11 Mar 2013, 10.25 pm  |  Source: PTI

Growing for the second straight month, India's exports rose by 4.25 per cent to USD 26.26 billion in February....

Key Bills to be discussed in Parliament today   

11 Mar 2013, 4.21 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

As the Parliament session kickstarts again for the week today, discussion on Railway Budget is expected to be made. The Securities and Exchange Board ...

FIIs pump over Rs 1,400cr in stocks in first week of March  

11 Mar 2013, 10.47 am  |  Source: PTI

Overseas investors have pumped in more than Rs 1,400 crore (USD 254 million) in the Indian stock market in the first week of March....

India needs good rating from international agencies: Shome  

11 Mar 2013, 9.41 am  |  Source: PTI

India needs good rating from global credit rating agencies to help bolster foreign capital flows into the country, Union Finance Ministry advisor Part...

Singapore investors concerned on India's GAAR uncertainty  

11 Mar 2013, 8.37 am  |  Source: PTI

Investors in Singapore are concerned over the pending implementation of India's General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) and its impact on investments there...

India least favoured among BRIC nations, says Mark Mobius   

09 Mar 2013, 1.22 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

India may have tumbled to the bottom on the investment priority list of global private equity and foreign institutional investors players looking to i...

Budget Analysis: Panel set up to prepare blueprint for all-women bank  

08 Mar 2013, 9.06 pm  |  Source: PTI

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has set up a committee of bankers and other experts to prepare a blueprint for all-women bank that is likely to become ...

No price increase this month, may hike in April: JSW Steel  

08 Mar 2013, 7.36 pm  |  Source: PTI

JSW Steel is likely to increase prices of its products next month as rising prices in the international markets are hitting its margins, a top company...

January factory output likely rose 1.2% YoY  

08 Mar 2013, 4.30 pm  |  Source: Reuters

Indian factory production in January probably rose from a year earlier after shrinking in December, boosted by a pick-up in domestic demand and infras...

Not year of high returns; focus back on IT: Purushottam   

08 Mar 2013, 3.02 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

Professional investor Sangeeta Purushottam says that the market that has become increasingly dependent on liquidity will not be able to offer high ret...

FY14 will be a difficult year for ITC: Religare Cap   

08 Mar 2013, 3.02 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

Varun Lohchab, managing director and co-head of research at Religare Capital Markets who tracks ITC spoke to CNBC-TV18 regarding the increased VAT and...