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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the first full year Budget on February 1, 2020 after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Democratic Alliance government returned to power in May... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2upeUbV

Calling the upcoming Budget as "an opportunity to unleash reforms", Brickwork Ratings said that the measures brought in since August 2019 are expected to have an impact on the economy gradually. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/36t5E48

Long-Term Capital Gains Tax: This tax is applicable on profits arising from sale of applicable assets held for more than one year from the date of purchase. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/36mGzaL

Budget 2020: Effective revenue deficit is defined as the difference between revenue deficit and grants for creation of capital assets. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3aH7rFQ

Industry body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) expects the Budget to put more money in the hands of people especially in rural areas, focus on disinvestment and announce... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2U1HafM

Analysts say volatility in the markets especially on the Budget day cannot be ruled out as the government may unveil more measures to lift economic growth which is estimated to hit an 11-year low in... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2RWxPmt

Union Budget 2020: The government introduces the Appropriation Bill in the Lok Sabha post the discussions on Budget proposals and Voting on Demand for Grants. The Appropriation Bill is first passed by... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2RSB6n3

On the last train to Europe before Britain left the EU on Friday evening, passengers leaving London expressed sorrow, optimism and anger, reflecting the emotions of a nation conflicted ahead its great... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2vAEz1W

The law and enforcement agencies have seized cash, liquor, drugs, precious metal and freebies worth Rs 45.16 crore till January 30 since the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into force on January 6. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/37N2TMn

Parents of students who were brought to India from China, after the coronavirus outbreak, in a special flight have thanked the state-run carrier Air India. A specially-prepped Air India Boeing 747... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2RMLrlr

The Indian economy experienced some abrupt slowdown in 2019 due to turbulence in non-banking financial institutions and major reform measures such as GST and demonetisation, but it is not in a... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/36KNrPz

The US said Friday it was declaring a public health emergency and temporarily banning the entry of foreign nationals who had traveled to China over the past two weeks to contain the spread of a deadly... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3b11WSz

Britain's partisan papers met Brexit with the same unbridled joy and tearful anguish that was felt across the streets and pubs of Britain on Friday night. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2Ue1evp

A scientific expedition to the Galapagos Islands has discovered a tortoise with a "strong" genetic link to a presumed-extinct subspecies made famous by the popular Lonesome George, national park... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2OxiPef

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her second Union Budget today, amid a slowdown in the economy. The government has been firefighting runaway price rise and turmoil in the finance and... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2RKatlo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the United States would keep building "strong" ties with Britain following its departure from the European Union. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2Ug1eeq

The US Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to remove President Donald Trump, media reported, with his acquittal all but assured in the Republican-held chamber. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/38XW6zz

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will announce her second Union Budget today. As India's first full-time woman Finance Minister rises to reveal her answer to the frail economy, all eyes will be on... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/31fiFx4

The death toll from China's coronavirus outbreak has surpassed 250, the government said Saturday, as foreign nations tightened restrictions on travellers from China in response to the rapid spread of... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2uVt9Fz

At midnight on Friday -- 1,317 days after British voters decided to leave the European Union -- Brexit finally came about. So what changed? from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2tiVRA3

A man lived with the corpse of his wife for three days in West Bengal's Nadia district before neighbours went to his house and found her decomposed body, police said on Friday. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/37MJWcH

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Neemuchwala, 52, will continue to hold the office of the CEO and Managing Director, until a successor is appointed for a smooth transition and to ensure that business continues as usual, the company... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/36LLLFf

Pep Guardiola's City travel to face Tottenham while third-placed Leicester host Chelsea and Manchester United take on Wolves in an intriguing set of fixtures. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/317PeNg

A US judge on Thursday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $344 million for false and deceptive marketing of pelvic mesh products used by tens of thousands of women in California. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/37OwMfq

Apple on Thursday said it has finished rolling out an overhauled map app in the US in another attempt to challenge Google's popular smartphone navigation software. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/37JC0c2

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International Business Machines (IBM) Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty will hand over the reins to the head of the company's cloud business, as the pioneer tech company continues its efforts to... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2GCerpL

The Dow Jones reversed course towards the end of the session and rose 124 points to close at 28,859, the S&P 500 added 10 points to end at 3283 and Nasdaq Composite was up 23 points to close at 9298. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/36G9sin

The Jamia Millia Islamia will pay for the treatment of the student who was injured in the Jamia Nagar firing incident on Thursday, vice chancellor Najma Akhtar said. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2UbTASk

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday personally intervened to allow Left leader Kanhaiya Kumar and the Congress's anti-Citizenship Amendment Act march, which was blocked by the West Champaran... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2GGiZLT

Stating that India-Israel relationship is "very strong", Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday as the latter congratulated him on the 28th... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2GCL7iT

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh, known for courting controversies with his comments, made yet another outrageous one on Thursday by saying that a lone woman protestor at a pro-CAA rally in the... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/36HXVio

A Delhi court on Thursday awarded 20 years imprisonment to two men in the 2013 kidnapping and rape case of a five-year-old girl, Gudiya (not her real name). from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/36JfX41

A passenger aircraft will leave India for Wuhan city in China's Hubei province on Friday to bring back Indians stranded there amid a raging coronavirus outbreak, sources in the government said. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/37IlHML

One terrorist has been killed in a gunfight with security forces at a toll plaza in Nagrota on the outskirts of Jammu. A policeman has been injured too after terrorists opened fire at the police team... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2S2W3f9

Actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar on Thursday compared the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) to the infamous Rowlatt Act of the British era. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/38RtXtP

Senior BJP leader and Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday claimed that he felt "foreign forces" were trying to "weaken" India by "misleading" people against the amended citizenship law. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2u84u0u

Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL) CMD Kapil Wadhawan, who is in the custody of Enforcement Directorate, was admitted to state-run JJ hospital in central Mumbai after he complained of lower... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/36HDLVK

Union minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani on Thursday claimed that political parties which failed in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections are supporting protests like those at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, where... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2RJDvlc

Thousands of stranded tourists were free to disembark from a cruise ship at an Italian port after authorities said two Chinese passengers feared to have the coronavirus tested negative Thursday. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/38KT3e2

US pilots on Thursday sued American Airlines to force the company to halt flights to China amid the virus outbreak now declared a global health emergency. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/36Dv5Ql

The number of confirmed deaths from China's coronavirus outbreak has risen to 212 after worst-hit Hubei province reported 42 new fatalities on Friday. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/38TDBfy

US President Donald Trump on Thursday created a coronavirus task force to lead his administration's response to the deadly virus which has killed 170 people and infected 7,736 others in China, and... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/38XpciF

Pace bowlers Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson and Matt Henry, who were all injured in Australia, were ruled out from the squad named for the one-day series against India. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2GyKRkX

Adnan Sami, who became an Indian citizen in 2016 and had expressed his "infinite gratitude" at being chosen for the government award from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2GBUIX6

The world's biggest smartphone maker, Samsung Electronics, reported a slump in fourth-quarter net profits on Thursday, blaming weakening demand in key products and falling chip prices. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/36C0Idg

Vanessa Bryant spoke out for the first time since her husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna were killed in a helicopter crash, saying the family is "completely devastated" by the tragedy that also... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2GybPJk