Category: Economy

In her second Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sought to find a balance between fears, and negative sentiments on one side, and harsh realities on

In the age of T20 cricket, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s two-hour-forty-minute-long 2020 Union Budget speech, handily beating her own last year’s record by 23 minutes,

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her second Union Budget in the Parliament today (Feb. 1, 2020). The Budget, which tried to put money in people’s

A good part of the borrowings for the financial year 2020-21 would go towards Capital expenditure of the Government that has been scaled up by

The first reactions to Nirmala Sitharaman‘s Budget have come in, and quite a few experts have already termed it as a ‘reasonable’ budget. But quite

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Saturday that a task force will be appointed to examine the issue about the age of girls

Everybody was looking for a caffeine shot to boost the consumption part and investment. Has the finance minister delivered on that short-term hope of giving

The Union Budget 2020 has proposed changes in the definition of residency of an individual (with reference to tax residency in India) which determines how

Budget 2020 India: As the economy continues to reel under a growth slowdown, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced cuts in personal income tax aiming to

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered the longest Budget speech in history on Saturday, clocking in at two hours and 37 minutes. In the course of

Riding on an ambitious plan for disinvestment, a sharp jump in non-tax revenues and a tight control on outlays for subsidies as well as defence,

After delivering the longest-ever Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the media she was confident of the divestment process gaining pace in the next

Union Budget 2020-21 was always going to be tightrope walk for the Finance Minister given the weak economic growth, slower tax collection and subdued business

If more expenditure in the rural economy is the need of the hour to revive demand, it is debatable if such tax giveaways could have

Among the first things Narendra Modi had done after he came to power with a majority in 2014 was abolish the Railway Budget. For a

When Nirmala Sitharaman presented the government’s Budget for the current fiscal year in July 2019, this columnist had argued: “The revenue projections are unrealistic. …The

Trend growth has been low in 2011-2020. In addition, business cycle conditions are weak. The Budget speech has done well to avoid the calls for