The Centre has overshot its budgeted fiscal deficit marginally this fiscal, with the revised estimate at 3.4% of GDP against the budget estimate of 3.3%
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Sizing up the Budget: T N Ninan and A K Bhattacharya explain Interim Budget 2019, Video Gallery – Business Standard
Sizing up the Budget: T N Ninan and A K Bhattacharya explain Interim Budget 2019 Business Standard Chairman T N Ninan and Editorial Director A
New FDI rules: Thousands of products disappear from e-commerce websites | Business Standard News
Amazon and Walmart ’s grand plans for India were thrown into chaos on Friday after the country implemented new e-commerce regulations, which could cut their growth in the market by
Interim Budget 2019: Economy caught in a 3.5%/7.5% trap? | Business Standard Column
The interim Budget for 2019-20 has “general elections” writ all over it. The big ticket item is, of course, the cash transfer scheme for farmers
Disquiet over data – The Hindu BusinessLine
Politicisation of GDP and job statistics can undermine data credibility In yet another ‘revision’ of the GDP numbers over the last five years, we are
Job data’s bad, but do not assume Modi will lose–Times of India
Unemployment in 2017-18 was a 45-year high of 6.1%, says the labour survey of the government’s National Sample Survey Office. This report, long suppressed by
Inflation Kept Inside its Cage–Economic Times
By Krishnamurthy Subramanian The interim budget that interim finance minister Piyush Goyal presented on Friday took several steps to ease the lives of the average
Standard deviations: On jobs data – The Hindu
Delay in releasing key employment data has undermined the credibility of data officialdom The resignations of the National Statistical Commission’s acting Chairperson P.C. Mohanan and
budget: Budget realities will unravel more as we do the maths carefully: Chidambaram – The Economic Times
P Chidambaram, former finance minister, is blunt in his criticism of the Interim Budget. The FRBM Act is as good as having been thrown out of the
Budget 2019 | MSME: GST rate rationalisation, fast track convergence to fewer rates help MSMEs–Economic Times
Interim Budget proposals went by convention in the realm of Indirect Taxes as there was no indirect tax proposal in Finance Minister ‘s Budget Speech,
Not an Interim Budget: Mr Goyal’s first has all features of a full Budget | Business Standard Column
This is not an interim budget. What Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presented Friday has no resemblance with any of the previous three interim budgets presented by his
Behind the speech | Business Standard Editorials
There is one thing that all Budget speeches have in common. The finance minister delivering the speech may be interim or permanent; the poet quoted may be Tamil, Bengali,
Macro economic stability: 2014-19 perhaps the best performing period for India, says Jaitley – The Hindu BusinessLine
Painting a rosy picture of the Indian economy and its macro-economic situation, Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday described the current 2014-19 NDA rule period
Budget | Narendra Modi: This Budget is Mr Modi saying please elect me for 10 more years: Swaminathan Aiyar–Economic Times
his is an election budget with farm sops and huge tax breaks for the middle class. The figures do not add up, says Swaminathan Aiyar, Consulting Editor, ET Now.
Budget analysis: As polls near, who will pay for government’s ambitious promises?–Economic Times
The government estimates getting Rs 82,911 crore through dividend from banks, financial institutions and the RBI in 2019-20, according to the Budget document. All day,
Income Tax exemption limit | Budget 2019: Only those with income up to Rs 5 lakh to pay no tax, rates remain same for all others–Economic Times
What Budget 2019 means for Individual Taxpayers Finance Minister Piyush Goyal has proposed that individuals with yearly income up to Rs 5 lakh will get
MSME: Govt’s financial inclusion paying dividends, GeM an enabler for MSMEs: Piyush Goyal–Economic Times
Thanks to the government’s push on digital – led financial inclusion, loans of upto Rs 1 crore loan can be obtained under 59 minutes, said Piyush
SME: Nothing in it for SMEs: Why the interim Budget is a missed opportunity
Income tax bonanza to revive demand for MSMEs: FISME’s Anil Bhardwaj For a sector that has been hammered by demonetisation and the chaotic implementation of
Mudra Yojana | Budget 2019: 15.56 lakh loans worth Rs 7.23 lakh cr sanctioned under Mudra scheme: Piyush Goyal
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal Friday said the government has sanctioned 15.56 lakh loans amounting Rs 7.23 lakh crore under the Mudra scheme of which an overwhelming majority
Income Tax Saving: How a salaried person with income up to Rs 7.75 lakh can now pay zero tax–Economic Times
You can invest Rs 1.5 lakh under section 80C in any of the eligible tax saving avenues. Going by the Budget 2019 proposals, a salaried