Budget 2024 News

Budget 2025: Infrastructure focus may propel cement stocks like UltraTech, Ambuja, ACC

The Union Budget 2025-26 is expected to prioritize growth in core sectors by increasing budgetary allocations, introducing policy reforms, and incentivizing private sector involvement.

Budget 2025: Real estate segment hopes for focused policies, tax incentives to boost demand

Companies such as DLF, Godrej Properties, Prestige Estates, and Oberoi Realty have emerged as strong performers, driven by healthy demand in both residential and commercial segments

Budget 2025: Key proposals to boost India’s power sector

Budget 2025 should focus on expediting PPA signings, enhancing supply chain resilience, advancing technology adoption, and strengthening financial markets to accelerate renewable energy growth. Incentives for CCUS, energy storage, and R&D will drive India’s clean energy transition

Budget 2025 Expectations Updates: Will Sitharaman tweak new tax regime to include NPS deductions?

Budget 2025 Expectations Updates (January 20): Strong buzz around tax breaks for individual taxpayers, partial AGR waiver for telcos

Capital gains in real estate: Resolving acquisition and reinvestment ambiguities to ease litigation

The author recommends Finance Minister to consider adding a clarification to treat the date of possession as the date of acquisition for under-construction properties under Sections 54 and 54F.

Budget Snapshot: How defence stocks march to the FM’s drum

The silver lining for defence sector investors is that these stocks often demonstrate a degree of resilience. In downturns, they tend to fall less sharply than the broader market, while in upswings, they frequently outpace the benchmark indices

Daily Voice: Change in income tax structure unlikely in budget, some incremental reforms to stimulate growth possible, says Julius Baer's Unmesh Kulkarni

Unmesh Kulkarni of Julius Baer India continues to remain constructive on the Indian equity markets, driven by the earnings cycle and strong domestic liquidity, coupled with likely comeback of FPI flows.

Budget 2025-26 needs to focus on capex, infrastructure spending: RBI MPC member Nagesh Kumar

The eminent economist noted that sustaining infrastructure expenditure and building it further would be very helpful for creating a much more robust trajectory of economic growth for India.

Budget FY26: Govt could cut customs duty on raw materials to boost manufacturing

On the proposed Customs duty rationalisation announced in the Budget in July 2024, Singh said the sectors which could see rationalisation are healthcare, manufacturing of medical equipment, white goods, electronics, footwear and toys.

Budget 2025 Expectations: Budget must give education sector significant boost, says expert

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2025 on February 1 next month.

Daily Voice: Union Budget can be a game-changer if it delivers these bold reforms, says Invasset PMS' Anirudh Garg

According to Anirudh Garg of Invasset PMS, a well-balanced Budget aligned with India's growth vision could significantly boost market sentiment and long-term growth prospects.

Budget 2025 Expectations highlights: Govt may introduce new income tax bill in Budget session

There is a growing debate about increasing the basic exemption limit in both the old and new tax regimes. Will Sitharaman provide any good news to individual taxpayers to help offset the inflationary woes?

Daily Voice: Equirus Wealth's Abhijit Bhave believes these budget announcements could bolster market sentiment

In 2025, sectors such as agriculture technology, specialised manufacturing, and affordable housing may offer contrarian opportunities, said Equirus Wealth's Abhijit Bhave.

Why government needs Union Budget: Understanding its importance and role

Just like a household has a budget for its monthly spending, the government also looks forward to allocating resources for the next financial year.

Union Budget 2025: Should investors be worried about a possible hike in capital gains tax?

Budget 2025: The capital gains tax hike in the last budget raised concerns among investors about the potential for future increases. While the likelihood of another hike in quick succession seems low, it cannot be entirely dismissed. Any unexpected move on capital gains tax could lead to a sharper market downturn, amplifying existing anxieties.

Modi inherited 'fragile economy' in 2014, must do more for developed status by 2047: Arvind Panagariya

The economist said during the interview that India needs a growth of at least 7.6 percent per annum to become a developed economy by 2047

Parliament's Budget session to begin on January 31

The first part of the session is marked by a debate in both Houses on the Motion of Thanks on the president’s address and ends with the prime minister’s reply in the two chambers of Parliament.

Will FM Nirmala Sitharaman scrap the old, with-exemptions tax regime in Budget 2025?

Though the government is incentivising a shift towards the new tax regime, it is unlikely that the old regime will be scrapped entirely, say tax experts. This is because a section of tax-payers does benefit from this with-exemptions tax structure. However, it might not be retained once the Income Tax Act is revamped.

Budget 2025 may keep capex target largely unchanged: MC Poll

Nearly all economists in the MC poll agreed on a need to push manufacturing, but opinion was divided on expanding production-linked incentive schemes to other sectors

Budget 2025 should provide a boost to consumption, say economists in an MC poll

The majority of economists in a survey cite slowing consumption as a primary concern, say there is a case for rationalisation of income tax rates.

RVNL shares jump 5% again today on Budget sops hopes, other railway stocks give up morning gains

RVNL stock has seen a strong resurgence in the past few days after it secured a Rs 3,622 crore contract from BSNL, recovering from the 7-month-low level it had hit on January 13.

Union Budget 2025: Govt may introduce personal income tax breaks, says report

Union Budget 2025 Latest News: The Centre may increase standard deduction limit from Rs 75,000 a year, says CNBC-TV18

MC Poll | Govt may set fiscal deficit target at 4.5% in Budget 2025-26, say economists

Nominal growth to be pegged at 10.4 percent as per MC Poll median of 13 economists

Budget 2025: Road construction stocks in focus on hopes of budget boost

Over the past five years, India’s road network has expanded by 59 percent, becoming the second largest globally at over 6.7 million kilometers, surpassed only by the United States. This includes 1.46 lakh kilometers of national highways.