BUDGET 2009: Coverage,Previews, Wishlists

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Govt plans VCFs to pay the requisite taxes

Home loan interest sop may be hiked to Rs 2L

Govt hints at stimulus package in vote-on-account

UPA to propose over 16% hike in the gross budgetary support

Steps to support labour-intensive sectors

India Inc seeks cut in income, corporate tax

Interim budget may include tax changes: Chidambaram


Govt eye polls in mini budget
The coalition government will put rescuing flagging growth and stemming job losses at the centre of a mini budget as it aims to woo voters ahead of general elections.

• Sops in interim budget?
• Steps to support labour-intensive sectors
• 16% hike in gross budgetary support: UPA
• Govt hints at stimulus in vote-on-account More >>

• Don't time market based on budget
  

  Market men are advising investors not to invest hastily ahead of the interim budget. The vote on account would seek to strike a balance between politics, economics

STPIs, 100% EOUs may enjoy tax holiday for 3 years

12 Feb 2009, 0103 hrs IST

The government plans to extend the tax concessions enjoyed by technology parks and 100% export-oriented units beyond March 2010. A case is also being made for the continuation of sops to 100% EOUs to make the country's exports more competitive in the global market.

Vote-on-account Primer

Prune consumption taxes

Natural gas cos may get tax sop

Lesser allocation for IITs likely in interim budget

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Railway Budget: Lalu announces 2% cut in AC rail fares

Railway Budget: Lalu announces 2% cut in AC rail fares

AC, Mail, Express fares cut by 2%

13 Feb 2009, 1252 hrs IST

Railway Minister Lalu Yadav on Friday announced fare cut in AC and mail express trains by 2%. He also announced the introduction of 43 new trains and kept freight rates unchanged.

Read Lalu's 09-10 Railway Budget speech

43 new trains introduced

Poet Lalu at Play

Rly to invest Rs 230K cr in 11th plan

Railways have scaled new highs

Lalu basks in glory of Railway safety

• 43 new trains introduced
• Now, book waitlisted e-tickets too
• Wagon makers receives shot-in-arm from Lalu
• Rail budget eyes polls: BJP
• New Trains introduced for FY-10
• Extension of Trains
• Increase in train frequency
• New line Surveys

Railways at a glance

Rly to invest Rs 230K cr in 11th plan
Lalu said the Railways will invest Rs 230K cr in the eleventh plan. Upgradation plan includes renewal of 2,941 km railway tracks that will require about 339,228 tonnes of steel and renewal of sleeper sheets along 2,382 km of railway lines.


Source:ET