The FY26 budget announced a long thread of schemes for rural India, including a comprehensive multi-sectoral rural prosperity and resilience programme, grameen credit score and broadband connectivity for all government secondary schools and primary health centres. But experts say allocations should have been higher, especially towards schemes like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme...
Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have significantly increased their exposure to Indian debt markets, investing ₹23,703 crore in the first half of March 2025, even as they continued to offload equities aggressively, depository data showed. FPI inflows into debt markets this month have more than doubled from ₹10,517 crore in February and far exceeded January’s ₹571...
Nirmala Sitharaman announced a major overhaul of the income tax system while outlining the Budget on Saturday. Individuals earning up to ₹12 lakh annually will no longer have to pay any tax under the new income tax regime — with benefit of ₹80,000. Sitharaman also proposed a change to the exemption limits and rejigged the...
