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This is Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s last chance: the 2018-19 Union Budget, scheduled for February 1, will be Jaitley’s fifth Budget. With the Lok Sabha

The economy grew at 7.2% in the October-December quarter, the fastest pace of growth we have seen in a little over a year. The positive

Before this year’s budget, the Economic Survey had suggested that economic management would be challenging in the coming year. Amid the negative sentiment because of

It’s hard to cheer a recovery when you shouldn’t have had anything to recover from in the first place.(Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg) The Indian economy has been

India regained its status as the world’s fastest growing major economy in the October-December quarter, surpassing China for the first time. Asia’s third-largest economy grew

So, in vindication of what the government has been saying, GDP during the third quarter of 2017-18 has grown by 7.2%. It had grown by

Former RBI governor D Subbarao today cautioned against India’s deficit challenge and said the country is no longer the sweet spot due to rising oil

India’s fiscal deficit touched Rs 6.77 lakh crore at the end of January, 113.7 per cent of the target for the entire fiscal, on account

The National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) was one of the two big bang announcements in the last full budget of the Narendra Modi government. It

For a second time in two weeks, US President Donald Trump raked up the issue of import duties on Harley-Davidson motorcycles in India. Speaking at

The Union Finance Minister actually presents two different Budgets every year. The first is the Budget his speech is all about – it focuses on

The focus of the last full Union Budget before the Narendra Modi-led NDA government gets into poll-mode before the 2019 elections has been on farmers

During his election campaign in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to create 10 million new jobs if elected to power. In practice, unemployment

Three years ago, the government launched a subsidised crop insurance policy to help farmers. The farmers now pay only a small 1.5-2 per cent of

Nearly 60 per cent of government built toilets are unusable because they lack water supply and drainage, says a 2015/16 report by the National Sample

On January 30, two days before the Narendra Modi government announced a rural and agriculture centric Union Budget, the NDA governments fourth Economic Survey for

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has achieved a remarkable feat by announcing a slew of measures for rural and agriculture sectors in the Union Budget 2018/19.

To expect the Opposition party to praise any government policy, especially the Union Budget, is quite unthinkable. In fact, political expediency necessitates open and hard-hitting

Modi declared his ‘Make in India’ programme was a success, even as job creation is nowhere near the promised 100 million. At the Economic Times

The insolvency and bankruptcy process is entering the decisive phase where some big-ticket stressed assets are up for grabs. However, the recent amendment to the