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Budget: Cigarettes, cold drinks become expensive

| | Jul 10, 2014, at 09:10 pm
New Delhi, July 10 (IBNS): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his maiden Union Budget in the Parliament on Thursday. The following items became cheaper and dearer in the budget:

What gets cheaper:

CRT television, LED/LCD TVs especially below 19 inch, Footwear priced between Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 per pair, Soaps, E-book readers,  Desktop, laptops and tablets, RO based water purifiers, LED Lights, fixtures and lamps, Pre forms of precious and semi-precious stones, Sports Gloves, Branded petrol, Matchbox, Life micro insurance policies, HIV/AIDS drugs and diagnostic kits, DDT insecticides.


What gets dearer:

Cigarettes, Aerated drinks with sugar,  Pan masala, Gutka and chewing tobacco, Jarda scented tobacco, Radio Taxi, Imported electronic products, Portable X-ray machines, Half cut/broken diamonds 

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