Dividend payout from non-financial CPSEs may hit record Rs 67,000 crThe Central govt is projected to collect a record ₹66,000-67,000 crore in dividends from its non-financial entities this fiscal year, drive...
11 Mar, 2025, 09.52 PM IST
CPSE dividends cross FY24 revised estimate in 11 monthsThe interim budget last month estimated such dividend receipts at ₹50,000 crore for the current fiscal, higher than the initial target of ₹...
02 Mar, 2024, 05.12 PM IST
Interim Budget 2024-25: Key numbers to watch outInterim Budget 2024: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will soon present her sixth budget on February 1 and the last one before the gener...
01 Feb, 2024, 07.16 AM IST
India likely to surpass FY24 target for state-run firms' dividends by at least $1.4 bnThe Indian government is likely to surpass its fiscal year target for dividends from state-run companies by at least INR 120 billion ($1.4 ...
04 Jan, 2024, 01.51 PM IST
Government gets over Rs 3,400 crore dividend from NIIF, ECGC"Government has respectively received about Rs 3,031 crore and Rs 434 crore from National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Ltd (NIIFL) an...
31 Jul, 2023, 03.18 PM IST
Government exceeds FY23 RE target of combined disinvestment, dividend mop upThe revised estimates (RE) had pegged receipts from disinvestment and dividend at Rs 93,000 crore. In 2022-23, dividend receipts stood at R...
01 Apr, 2023, 12.28 AM IST
Up to 50% dividend likely from these 7 cash-rich PSUs; govt to get Rs 21,000 crThere is a high probability that government would now push cash-rich PSUs to pay higher dividends.
07 Jan, 2019, 03.06 PM IST
RBI reportedly declines government's demand for additional dividend: AgenciesThe RBI transferred dividend to the tune of Rs 30,659 crore to the government for FY2016-17, which is half of what it paid to the governmen...
25 Jan, 2018, 04.07 PM IST
Buybacks give additional revenue to brokeragesSince April 2016, there have been 69 buybacks worth Rs 58,683 crore till August 31, 2017.
19 Sep, 2017, 06.35 PM IST
Crude price fall: How all but the consumer gainedThe biggest gainer in the oil retailing economy has obviously been the Union govt, reaping gains by raising duty and taxes.
14 Sep, 2017, 10.50 AM IST
Budget 2016: Dividend tax may add over Rs 8,000 crore to government coffersIn FY15, a sample of over 1,000 companies declared total dividend of Rs 1,41,050 crore. Of this, promoters took home over Rs 78,400 crore.
29 Feb, 2016, 08.54 PM IST
Non-tax receipts top Rs 2 lakh crore: Finance MinistryGovernment has collected over Rs 2 lakh crore as non-tax receipts, with biggest pie coming from the dividends paid by state-owned firms and...
16 Feb, 2016, 03.29 AM IST
Govt stares at Rs 50,000 crore shortfall in disinvestment proceedsThe Finance Ministry is staring at a shortfall of Rs 50,000 crore in disinvestment target for the current fiscal and is hoping to make up f...
30 Dec, 2015, 09.46 PM IST
NTPC may announce interim dividend this monthThe country's largest power producer would follow Coal India, which earlier this week declared an interim dividend of Rs 29 a share.
17 Jan, 2014, 09.47 PM IST
Banks to pay interim dividend to help government raise fundsHard pressed to meet the fiscal deficit target, the government has asked state-owned banks to pay interim dividend to help it mop up resour...
08 Jan, 2014, 09.12 PM IST
Finance Ministry to seek special dividend from profit making PSUsIn the last fiscal, the government had originally budgeted a dividend income of Rs 27,178 crore from PSUs.
28 Nov, 2013, 02.12 PM IST
Budget 2013: finance ministry urges PSUs for extra dividendThe finance ministry is knocking on the doors of cash-rich public sector units for higher dividends in its usual pre-Budget rush to raise f...
17 Jan, 2013, 07.02 AM IST