The Squeeze
India’s economic story has long rested on a simple promise: study hard, secure a stable job, and enter the middle class.
India’s economic story has long rested on a simple promise: study hard, secure a stable job, and enter the middle class.
The GST framework has been streamlined into two primary slabs: 5 per cent and 18 per cent, with a 40 per cent demerit rate for luxury and sin goods.
The statement comes amid the BJP government defending the move and calling it a necessary step in its ongoing pollution control efforts.
Delhi Minister Ashish Sood on Wednesday said the BJP-led city government worked on the principle of 'Antyodaya' vision with an aim to make life easier for the middle class and welfare of the poor, in its first 100 days in office.
The memorandum reads: “The people of Karnataka, along with the people of India, are deeply anguished and pained by the 'extortionist policies'.”
Budgets come and go leaving behind a sea of unfulfilled expectations of taxpayers. However, Budget 2025 will long be remembered as one of the few Budgets that warmed the cockles of middle-class hearts.
Relief The Union Budget 2025-26 delivers a substantial tax break to India’s middle class, with the exemption threshold rising to Rs 12 lakh from Rs 7 lakh.
Expressing gratitude to PM Narendra Modi for putting the economy on a fast-track and bold development initiatives for poor, youth, farmers and women, J&K Lt. Governor, Manoj Sinha ,on Saturday said that the budget proposals presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was a big boost to the middle class.
Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday hailed the Union Budget 2025-16, calling it a comprehensive and visionary roadmap for India's future under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday emphasised that this is the first Parliament session in which he witnessed no 'videshi chingari' (foreign interference) in India's affairs since 2014
