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The word ‘budget’ can be looked at from two perspectives. As a noun, a budget defines what your spending limits are and spells out exactly what you can spend your money on. The phrase “I’m on a budget” is an oft-repeated, much dreaded state of being. As a verb, ‘budget’ or ‘to budget’ is the process of defining how you will manage your money and to what specific areas you plan to allocate your resources over the course of a definite period of time. The Union Budget But these definitions are for simple folk like you and me. In the context of the Indian government, the Union Budget is the master plan that guides all Central Government spending for a given financial year. Besides defining the expenditures and how they will be made, the Union Budget also defines the targeted amounts and sources of revenue that the government expects to generate between 1st April and 31st March of each year. When is it presented The Union Budget is typically presented before the Parliament by t...

New Delhi: From Saturday (November 1), frequent withdrawal of money from ATMs will be costlier with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) having imposed a limit of 3 cross-bank transaction per month from other banks and 5 from same bank. As per the new RBI guidelines passed earlier in August, a customer will have to pay a fee of Rs 20 per transaction for using the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) beyond the permitted number of 3. Prior to this, banks permitted 5 free transactions from cross-banks. Customers will also be charge Rs 20 for using their own bank ATMs after the allowed 5 transactions limit. These new guidelines, which were issued in pursuance of a representation made to the central bank by Indian Banks' Association, will come into effect from tomorrow in six metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Hyderabad. "The number of mandatory free ATM transactions for savings bank account customers at other banks ATMs is reduced from the present 5 to ...

Book My Show Mobile app which provides an easy chance for the Mobile users to get entertainment through a simple and easy way. Book My Show is very user friendly application and is checked by the local people frequently watching movies. A single tapping on the screen widget can allow the user to watch the favorite movie of his choice. One way to watch the movies of our choice is to choose the movies and book for them. The Book My Show application will display the list of movies and cinemas, the list of the movies and the timings of the show. The Book My Show Mobile app will help in choosing the seats where the person has to sit and the tickets for those seats can be booked previously. The application helps in supporting the multiple payment secured option. The primary release of the application has the opportunity to provide movie tickets while the improved releases will provide the tickets for the plays, sports and concerts. The people mad about watching the movies can have the gre...

Do you know when your banks will be closed for business this year? These dates are observed as public holidays in India. Note: The list of bank holidays is based on information on the Reserve Bank of India website. Some holidays might not be applicable in your home state. Your organisation/ institution might have holiday policies that differ with India's central bank. August 15 Independence Day Independence Day is observed on the 15th of August every year in India. It is a national holiday commemorating the nation's independence from British rule. August 18 Janmashtami / Parsi New Year Krishna Jayanthi is an annual commemoration of the birth of the Hindu deity Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. Hindus celebrate this festival by fasting and staying up until midnight, the time when Krishna is believed to have been born. August 29 Ganesh Chaturthi Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated on the birthday of Lord Ganesha. This festival is celebrated August 30 Gane...

NEW DELHI: Tech giant Google is offering a prize of USD one million (about Rs 6 crore) for building a compact solution for transforming renewable energy into a power source that can be used at home. Google, along with Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers ( IEEE), has started a 'Little Box Challenge' to design and build a kW-scale power inverter, a device used to convert renewable energy, including solar and wind, before transforming it into suitable current for home and vehicles. The challenge is that the new device has to be of the size of a small laptop, roughly 1/10th of the current size. "We are looking for someone to build a kW-scale inverter with a power density greater than 50W per cubic inch. Do it best and we will give you a million bucks," Google said in a blogpost. Google believes that this will help "change the future of electricity". "We believe that inverters will become increasingly important to ...

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Friday said the State government was thinking of distributing 'iPad' to all households in the State at an estimated cost of Rs. 3,000 crore. Speaking on the second day of his two-day tour of the Anantapur district, he said the State government was in talks with telecom service providers such as Reliance, Airtel and BSNL to offer 4G services to those iPads so that the best of the technological advances could be known by the people, egging them on to further development. “Even students can reduce their load of books and switch over to the iPad,” said Mr. Naidu, even as he said the State government would make full use of modern technology to reach out and create an interface with the people. Earlier in the day, Mr. Naidu visited the famous Lakshmi Nrusimha Swamy temple in Kadiri town and prayed there before proceeding to a dargah close by. At a meeting with weavers and farmers at Mudigubba mandal hesdquarters, as part of the last leg...

New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Domestic airline company Jet Airways and its Abu Dhabi-based partner Etihad Airways Thursday started a 72-hour joint special fare offer. According to Jet Airways, the offer will be available from July 25-27 next with travel effective from Sep 1, 2014 till June 15, 2015 for flights within India and from Sep 1 till Nov 30, 2014 for flights to international destinations. The offer is valid for both economy and business class of Jet and Etihad Airways availing with a flat 20 percent to 50 percent discount over regular fares on the combined network of the two airlines across over 135 destinations worldwide. "The special introductory offer is a celebration to mark the formalisation of the strategic alliance between Etihad Airways and Jet Airways. Together we offer our guests the choice of an unparalleled global network, and flexibility of schedules and connections," said Gaurang Shetty, senior vice president - commercial, Jet Airways. "Add t...

The world has made progress in eradicating extreme poverty, butaround one in five people in developing regions still live on less than $1.25 per day, according to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report 2014. Despite achieving the MDG goal of halving global poverty before the 2015 target, progress on poverty reduction has been uneven across geographies, the UN said. "Some regions, such as Eastern Asia and South-Eastern Asia, have met the target of halving the extreme poverty rate, whereas other regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia, still lag behind," it wrote in a report released on Wednesday. In Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, 48 percent and 30 percent people live on less than $1.25 a day, respectively, compared with 56 percent and 51 percent in 1990. India tops the list; one third of the world's extreme poor live in the South Asian nation alone. The country hopes new Prime Minister Narendra Modi will push th...

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