Hindustan Times ST (Mumbai) - 2021-02-02

• BUDGET TESTS +VE FOR HOPE
• A booster shot for bulls in best budget day rise
• WILL BUDGET 2021-22...
• In pandemic age, 137% increase in budget on health, well-being
• Covid-19 vaccines given a special ₹35k cr allocation
• In shadow of pandemic, Centre hikes capital, revenue spending
• Union Budget takes note of key 15th Finance Commission suggestion­s
• Budget focuses on job creation via hike in capital, infra spending
• States likely to face crisis as govt pegs tax share at 30%
• A new-found confidence about India reflects in a bold Union Budget 2021
• Nothing more, nothing less: Budget relief for taxpayers
• Customs duty on gold, silver cut to 7.5%; industries laud move
• Interest on EPF over ₹2.5L a yr to be taxed
• Relief from double taxation for NRIS
• ‘Farmers, villages at heart of budget’
• Highways to welfare funds: 4 poll-bound states get infra boost
• Budget a let-down, designed to deceive people, says Oppn
• Tagore, Oz win find space in FM speech
• WHAT’S IN IT FOR CORPORATES
• ‘Important to back asset creation’
• Industry captains welcome hike in public spending
• Marginal hike in agri sector spending
• Rural India sees 10% allocation hike
• Agricultur­e infra cess may hit state revenues
• ₹2.87L-cr Jal Jeevan Mission aims to take tap water to 28.6m homes
• Govt hikes capital expenditur­e by 34.5%
• More tax relief for 1st time homebuyers
• Centre launches voluntary vehicle scrappage policy
• Social security benefit to be extended to platform, gig workers: FM
• Rlys to monetise DFC, focus on Rail plan 2030
• Bad bank, recapitali­sing PSBS expected to better credit flow
• Norms eased for startups
• No restrictio­ns on one-person companies: FM
• ₹1,500-crore scheme to boost digital payments
• NEW INSTITUTIO­N FOR FINANCING INFRA PIPELINE
• A Union Budget that bets on growth
• What Union Budget 20212022 gets right
• Where the budget gets India’s economy wrong
• The Union Budget will unleash animal spirits and enthuse investors
• Decoding the budget and the economics of welfare
• The government’s arithmetic jugglery cast a shadow over the budget’s right direction
• The budget boosts hopes of revival
• Despite spending on capital goods, health, the big gap in the budget — an expenditur­e thrust
• Govt to start privatisat­ion with 2 small PSU lenders
• FDI hike will boost insurance sector
• Govt paves way to take LIC to the stock exchange
• India spent ₹20,776 cr on border security after China row
• MVA leaders term it a Maha disappoint­ment; Oppn denies
• Budget fails to cheer up realty sector in Mumbai
• Plan reopening of colleges and univs, V-CS told
• Mercury rises, may fall by end of week
• Day 1 of local trains for all sees the return of ‘rush hour’ in Mumbai
• BMC: Next 15 days crucial to understand Covid spread
• 309K get vax shots; phase 2 starts today
• 33-year-old security guard killed, 7 hurt in Bhiwandi godown collapse
• MU organises online convocatio­n ceremony
• TMC to complete vaccinatio­n of health, frontline workers by Feb 15
• Twitter blocks 250 handles temporaril­y
• Union minister Tomar, NCP chief spar over farm laws
• Farmers announce ‘chakka jam’ on Feb 6
• Iron spikes, concrete walls to contain farm protesters
• BUDGET...
• Protests held in more countries
• Cops wanted Delhi-bound trains stopped
• FIRST ARREST IN RED FORT CASE
• Oz Open delay an unwanted blessing: Serena
• Second India-england Test set to see 50% crowd
• Overall budget slashed, NSFS and SAI get more
• England spin duo looks to draw from past high in India
• Show more respect to Messi: Koeman
• A fake world’ ‘Film industry can be
• ‘ALONGSIDE WEB, I’D LIKE TO BE ON 70MM SCREEN, TOO’

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