Budget fine print: AC and refrigerator to be costlier; gold and silver to be cheaper

Budget fine print: AC and refrigerator to be costlier; gold and silver to be cheaper
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A large number of commonly used items, including refrigerators, air conditioners, LED lights and mobile phones, will become more expensive due to hike in customs duty on imported parts, as proposed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget for 202122.

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brajtvm NAIR12 minutes ago
The FM has not done anything for the middle class. Taxes on all items purchased by the lower and middle class have been hiked and no relief given to them. Similarly the senior citizens have seen a steep fall in their income due to fall in interest rates. The Government it seems considered only government employees as middle class. A large section of this class are working in private establishment have borne maximum financial burden during the pandemic. Yet nothing for these workers.
Misusing Freedomofspeech17 minutes ago
Best of luck for sake if 1.5 billion souls. Whatever is optics & data manipulation JNU types do, year after year India is at top of corruption due to only few millions of सरकारी नोकर & their families. Blood of thousands of indians dieing everyday due to hunger is on hands of Agricultural supply chain of farmers to APMC etc. Faulty DNA carring ignorant can feel safe & proud in their disgusting denial existence but as Nature has shown carrying insurance & gym card is of no gurantee against impending covid death or impotency. Best of luck to for sake of humanity ...... that poison kill poison and public pasture parasite act as catalyst for their own end.