The Survey is a report of the state of the Indian economy in the financial year that is coming to a close. It is prepared by the Department of Economic Affairs in the Union Finance Ministry, under the guidance of the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA)

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Budget 2025, Important Points Explained Highlights: In this live blog, senior editors for Economy and Business at The Indian Express provided updates from the Budget speech with an explanation of the provisions and what they mean.

Income Tax Budget 2025: The FM has provided significant savings for even those earning above Rs 15 lakh by way of sharp cut in tax rates for incomes falling between Rs 15 lakh and Rs 24 lakh

Bihar Budget 2025-26 Explained: The state is slated to go to polls in November this year. It is currently ruled by the Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Union Budget 2025 Highlights: The large cuts in income-tax is an acceptance from the government that its corporate tax cut of 2019 has not worked. Had the sequencing been reversed — IT cut first, corporate tax cut later — the results could have been very…

Budget 2025 Highlights and Important Points: The focus is on putting more money in taxpayers’ hands through tax cuts, and creating more jobs. The infra expenditure push has reduced, but stress on fiscal discipline remains

Odisha has a rich Buddhist heritage. Ratnagiri, part of the ‘Diamond Triangle’ of Ratnagiri, Udaygiri, and Lalitgiri, had a flourishing monastery where monks of the Vajrayana sect of Buddhism lived during the reign of the Bhauma-Kara kings.

Budget 2025 Highlights: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that furthering Make in India is one of the government’s 10 broad focus areas for the coming year

Bihar contributes to 90% of makhana production in India. But it has failed to thus far reap dividends from the surge in the “superfood’s” popularity. Can a ‘Makhana Board’ fix that?

Zero tax up to Rs 12 lakh taxable income is good news. But you start to lose as soon as you cross that threshold – until your taxable income reaches Rs 12.71 lakh. See the math.

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Union Budget 2025: Apart from zero tax for about a crore people earning Rs 12 lakh a year, slabs also recast to benefit those in higher salary brackets. How much do you save if you earn over Rs 15 lakh a year? We explain.

In a country, which has just over 10 crore taxpayers, the intent to simplify the tax regime with lower TDS/TCS compliances, raise the income tax rebate limit and rejig the tax slabs, has been to repose trust in the complying taxpayer.

While there is a welcome increase in the overall allocation in the Gender Budget Statement, more needs to be done if the government truly wants to deliver on its promise of Nari Shakti

The large cuts in income tax is an acceptance from the government that its corporate tax cut of 2019 has not worked. Had the sequencing been reversed — IT cut first, corporate tax cut later — the results may have been different