Budget Session 2019

Over 15.5 lakh cyber security incidents have been reported in the last two years and 11.58 lakh of them were recorded in 2020 alone, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal, which came into being in 2019, is required to present to President and Parliament an annual report on the work done by it but no such report has been laid in the two Houses, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.

Parliament Live Updates: A number of bills are scheduled to be discussed in both the Houses of the Parliament today. The discussions in the Lok Sabha today include the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2019; discussion and voting on the Demands for Grants under the control of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for 2019-20.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget speech Friday proposed to increase the surcharge from 15 per cent to 25 per cent for those with taxable incomes of between Rs 2 crore and Rs 5 crore, and to 37 per cent for those earning more than Rs 5 crore. This takes the effective tax rate for those two groups to 39 per cent and 42.74 per cent, r...

Markets continued to tumbled for the second straight session on Monday with the Sensex plummeting 793 points

The S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 indexes plunged for a second straight session and were on track to post biggest single-day decline in over nine months after the government proposed to increase the minimum public shareholding in listed companies and to raise the tax incidence for foreign portfolio investors and high net-worth individuals in its ...

Domestic stock markets started Monday's session on a lower note, extending their losses to a second straight day, amid weakness in global peers. The S&P BSE Sensex index fell as much as 435.23 points to 39,078.16 in early trade, and the NSE Nifty benchmark moved to 11,682.90, down 128.25 points from the previous close. Weakness across sectors, led ...

Industry Body and automakers have high hopes from the upcoming budget session which can help the industry to recover from the current slowdown.

UPL, Bharti Airtel, Britannia Industries, Tata Motors and UltraTech Cement were the top gainers on the 50-share Nifty

In today's session, fifteen of 19 sector gauges compiled by BSE were trading higher led by the S&P BSE Realty Index's 2 per cent gain.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi gave Parliament a miss this morning as the 17th Lok Sabha began after the national elections. On Day One, the elected lawmakers took oath as members of the house - led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The economic survey will be tabled on July 4 followed by the presentation of the budget on the next day. The session will have a total of 30 sittings.

The Central government will introduce the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in the ensuing session of the Parliament.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi today met Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi and is believed to have discussed about the Parliament session that is beginning June 17.

The Lok Sabha today passed a bill to protect gullible investors from ponzi schemes, with Finance Minister Piyush Goyal saying the government will ensure that no loophole is left while framing rules.

Over 15.5 lakh cyber security incidents have been reported in the last two years and 11.58 lakh of them were recorded in 2020 alone, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal, which came into being in 2019, is required to present to President and Parliament an annual report on the work done by it but no such report has been laid in the two Houses, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.

Parliament Live Updates: A number of bills are scheduled to be discussed in both the Houses of the Parliament today. The discussions in the Lok Sabha today include the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2019; discussion and voting on the Demands for Grants under the control of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for 2019-20.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget speech Friday proposed to increase the surcharge from 15 per cent to 25 per cent for those with taxable incomes of between Rs 2 crore and Rs 5 crore, and to 37 per cent for those earning more than Rs 5 crore. This takes the effective tax rate for those two groups to 39 per cent and 42.74 per cent, r...

Markets continued to tumbled for the second straight session on Monday with the Sensex plummeting 793 points

The S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 indexes plunged for a second straight session and were on track to post biggest single-day decline in over nine months after the government proposed to increase the minimum public shareholding in listed companies and to raise the tax incidence for foreign portfolio investors and high net-worth individuals in its ...

Domestic stock markets started Monday's session on a lower note, extending their losses to a second straight day, amid weakness in global peers. The S&P BSE Sensex index fell as much as 435.23 points to 39,078.16 in early trade, and the NSE Nifty benchmark moved to 11,682.90, down 128.25 points from the previous close. Weakness across sectors, led ...

Industry Body and automakers have high hopes from the upcoming budget session which can help the industry to recover from the current slowdown.

UPL, Bharti Airtel, Britannia Industries, Tata Motors and UltraTech Cement were the top gainers on the 50-share Nifty

In today's session, fifteen of 19 sector gauges compiled by BSE were trading higher led by the S&P BSE Realty Index's 2 per cent gain.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi gave Parliament a miss this morning as the 17th Lok Sabha began after the national elections. On Day One, the elected lawmakers took oath as members of the house - led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The economic survey will be tabled on July 4 followed by the presentation of the budget on the next day. The session will have a total of 30 sittings.

The Central government will introduce the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in the ensuing session of the Parliament.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi today met Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi and is believed to have discussed about the Parliament session that is beginning June 17.

The Lok Sabha today passed a bill to protect gullible investors from ponzi schemes, with Finance Minister Piyush Goyal saying the government will ensure that no loophole is left while framing rules.