Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman outlined the main points of the Union Budget for 2021-22 and discussed the road map to fiscal consolidation and borrowing plan with the Reserve Bank of India’...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday told the Lok Sabha that the government has been pursuing reforms for sustained long term growth despite the Covid-19 pandemic . “Covid-19 did not...

Exporters on Wednesday raised concerns on certain budget proposals which they called as “harsh and draconian” as they gave the authorities the power to seize goods. A sub-section is propo...

The fine print of the budget shows the government resorting to retrospective provisions to overturn judicial pronouncements in the areas of slump sale, goodwill and the income adjustment of charitable...

Sir — The article, “Winning hearts” (Feb 4), by Swapan Dasgupta essentially hails the bluffs by the finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, in the Union budget for 2021-22 as revolutio...

The Union budget is not merely a dossier of government income and expenditure. Its importance lies in it being a concrete representation of a government’s vision for the growth of the nation and...

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“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark” Rabindranath Tagore (As quoted by the FM in her budget speech last Monday) The budget, which appears as a ...

A recent proposal by the department of military affairs, headed by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat, to raise the retirement age for officers and reduce pension for those choosing prema...

The sense of relief that senior citizens above the age of 75 years felt after the Budget speech of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman seems to be short-lived as the devil in the budget details is tum...