Budget 2014: What gets costlier

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday spared the common man from price hikes by keeping duties on commonly used day-to-day items unchanged but made it costlier for smokers and tobacco consumers with a steep increase in excise rate in tax proposals in Budget 2014-15.

Following is a list of what will be expensive:

•     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.