Like every year budget, this year's budget too had highs and lows for different sectors. Many of the fiscal reforms introduced in the budget have been advanced keeping in view the introduction of the GST. The increase in the excise rate seems to be a step towards smooth implementation of GST. On indirect tax front, there have been several changes in this year budget.

The proposed amendments of modifying the income slabs for levying personal income tax brought some joy and glee to the individuals. With the slab rates broadened substantially and increase in tax saving investment limits, the Finance Minister has increased the disposable income of the taxpayers.

The Aam Aadmi's expectations from Budget 2010 are high given the ever rising inflation and wholesale price index (WPI). An appropriate increase in the income tax slab could probably cushion the impact of the increased inflation and WPI and could bring about some relief.

MUMBAI: As per CEO of www.astromoneyguru.com, the Union Budget is an important financial document for the next one year. The Union budget of India lays down guidelines and pronouncements on different types of taxes, financial allocations for various heads and developmental plans for different sectors.

It's a bank that's been in India for more than 150 years and looking at its latest results its evident that India is going to be where the action is for Standard Chartered Bank.

Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group, the country's third-largest conglomerate, feels Budget 2010 is a terrific budget. Talking about disinvestment, Birla says Pranabda typically undercommits and overperforms and I think the target he has talked about - Rs 40,000 crore is very doable.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says that the budget may be inflationary but it's not because of the fuel price hike. In a post-Budget interview, he tells Bloomberg UTV Editor-in-Chief Govindraj Ethiraj that the UPA alliance still does not have the "magical" number to push through reforms...

It is a sector that has been more in the news for the troubles it has faced than the way it has transformed how the upwardly mobile Indian travels. The irony of it all is when everyone is talking about infrastructure, this critical arm of infrastructure faces structural issues that threaten the very survival of companies operating in our skies.

The film was a bad one, even though it starred the Big B... well he isn't guarantee for good cinema… As I sleep walked to find myself a cab, aching to close my eyes on my new lavender pillow, I was aware that I couldn't have dreamed of taking a cab by myself at this hour in any other city in India...

"In the primary issuance process, Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) that currently pay only 10% margin while applying will be required to pay 100 per cent money in line with what other investors are required to do for all the issues that open on or after May 1, 2010"

The comma spliced title of the film kept me intrigued for quite some time. The nitpicker in me hit the books to find a reason as to why the words 'road' and 'movie' are separated by a comma? Here's what I found out: It has to do with a train.

Rhythm abound, Leaving Home, foremost, is a film about time. It’s an attempt to crunch nearly three decades of lived history of Indian Ocean in two hours. Watching the final cut, a worthy precipitate of the 195 hours of shot footage, I realised why editing is the most painful part of filmmaking.