Usually interim budgets do not expand budgetary allocations, but this is a convention and not a rule...

No minister has been deputed to oversee the finance portfolio...

Allocation less than this year’s spending ...

Any increase in disposable income will be welcomed by salaried class...

The budget is scheduled for February 1, which falls in the middle of the 2-week rest prescribed for Jaitley...

Wash feet of sanitation workers, but why was allocation for rehabilitating manual scavengers reduced by half?...

Jaitley been in the US since January 22 for medical treatment...

Most states don't have digitised updated records of farmers, and where's the time to link bank accounts and Aadhaar?...

Analysts are taking a relatively dim view of revenue expenditure overshoot, even though the miss is relatively tiny at 3.4 per cent of GDP rather than targeted 3.3 per cent...

Shouts of 'Modi, Modi' in House as finance minister Piyush Goyal makes announcement...