RollbackThe government’s move to raise more borrowings amounts to a rollback of its decision in September 2018 to cut borrowings in the second half of the year (October-March) to Rs 248,000 crore �...

The success of Bharat 22 ETF and the strategic sale of Pawan Hans and Rural Electrification Corporation are likely to result in the government meeting the Rs 80,000-crore divestment target set for the...

Economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg on Saturday exuded confidence that 2018-19 will end with a fiscal deficit of 3.3 per cent of the GDP, marginally lower than the revised estimate of 3.4 ...

Finance minister Piyush Goyal said in his budget speech that the defence allocation had crossed Rs 3 lakh crore for the first time, but the outlay represents a modest hike compared to last year’s al...

“How’s the josh?” goes the popular line from the recent war movie Uri: The Surgical Strike, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleagues like Nirmala Sitharaman like to quote fr...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has conveyed to the Opposition that his government will present an interim budget on Friday, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Thursday. Azad also said the ...

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Finance minister Arun Jaitley has left for the US for what sources described as a “regular medical check-up”.The unexpected announcement, a little over two weeks before the presentation of the Nar...

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So was the sixth and last budget of the Modi government a damp squib? Or will it be a big hit?Has it made some big changes in the amount of money that people will now have in their pockets? Will peopl...