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In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, insurance companies are coming out with special cover against the deadly disease. In the last few days, a

What can Sitharaman do to present a Big-Bang Budget? Here is a six-point solution: 1. Forget fiscal consolidation for the time being To start with

The decision by four private insurance companies to opt out of the government’s flagship crop insurance programme — the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) — is least surprising.

This was an unremarkable Budget from a government that knows it has time, and will have more opportunity to tweak its finances and its outlook.

The bond markets have rejoiced. The yield on the 10-year G-Sec has fallen by 10 basis points, cheering the 3.3% fiscal deficit number retained for

Highlights I did not realise well after I finished my speech that I missed out on reading it. Normally, the last bit would have been

The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman made her maiden Budget Speech today and presented the Union Budget 2019-20 before the Parliament. The

By R Jagannathan Nirmala Sitharaman’s maiden budget struck all the right chords by addressing all the pain points of the economy. Big numbers were bandied

By: Arvind Panagariya, Professor, Economics, Columbia University, US As an economist, I am grateful that the PM hasn’t given up the path of fiscal rectitude. Rejecting

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her maiden Budget Speech on Friday announced sops for various sectors. Sitharaman, who became the first full-time women Finance

The budget is positively disappointing when it comes to import duties. Some have been slashed, some, raised. In the name of Make in India. It

India’s economic growth will rebound from a five-year low this year, but would need a huge boost in spending and reforms to accelerate higher rate

Budget 2019 India: 50,000 startups in India by 2024 was envisioned by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) in April this

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday presented a Budget that kept the Narendra Modi government’s fiscal consolidation track record intact and used a variety of measures to bolster the government’s revenue

Initiatives to increase financial savings and easing of FDI norms will boost both domestic and foreign investments The Union Budget 2019-20 will be presented against

A couple of days before she presents her first Budget as finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman has been confronted by a litany of bad news. One,

In 2015-16 Budget speech, Arun Jaitley had to admit that the target of 3 percent would be achieved in 3 years instead of 2, as

For the government that has striven to clamp down corruption with mottos like “maximum governance, minimum government’ and with all the hoopla caused by GST