Bringing cheer to individual taxpayers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his maiden Union Budget 2014-15 in Parliament on Thursday, raised personal tax exemption limit to Rs 2.5 lakh from the current Rs 2 lakh.
From Rammohun Roy to Satyajit Ray to Tapas Pal, in Bengal the gap between an inherited ‘culture’ of the past and the social reality of today is probably greater than any other state, writes Sagarika Ghose.
Welcoming the Indian Budget as "pragmatic and sensible", NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul said on Thursday that it would send a positive signal to foreign investors. Paul, founder-Chairman of the Caparo Group, which…