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Budget numbers game: How revised estimates allow govt to fix its deficits

Ignoring the Actuals of the last year and not examining their variance from the original BE and RE numbers can weaken the quality of Budget analysis

Interim Budget 2019: A full Budget will be unconstitutional, says Yashwant

Amid speculation that the govt may present a full Budget on Feb 1, Sinha said there was no precedence of an outgoing govt doing so

Interim Budget is an example of 'after me, the deluge', says Yashwant Sinha

The BE for this year for expenditure on major items, agriculture and allied activities, is approximately Rs 64,000

Govt could pass Finance, Fugitive Economic Offenders bills amid din

J&K CM Mehbooba sacks finance minister Haseeb Drabu, Naresh Agrawal joins BJP

Amid Opposition protests, Budget passed in Lok Sabha without discussion

With the passage of the Finance Bill and the Appropriation Bill, the budget exercise is complete in the lower house

LTCG relief: Govt extends indexation benefit to investors of unlisted firms

The finance ministry had received various representations demanding removal of LTCG tax

In 30 minutes Lok Sabha clears Finance bill, 218 amendments without debate

The bills were the contentious Finance Bill, 2018, and the Appropriation Bill, 2018

Interim Budget 2019: Those in lower income tax brackets to benefit more

The finance minister has proposed a rebate for those who have a taxable income of up to Rs 5 lakh

The burden of subsidies

The trend rate of expenditure on subsidies in April-Nov 2018 indicates a higher spend than indicated in the revised estimates for 2018-19

An 'unconventional' interim Budget

Was Friday's Budget an act of constitutional impropriety, as the government's opponents have proclaimed, or was it justified, as its ministers insist?

Interim Budget reduces RBI rate cut possibility in February, say economists

High expenditure, fiscal deficit slippage point to inflationary tendencies

Why PM Modi seems to have given up on hopes of transforming India

Modi's promise of a new political economy, one oriented around the private sector, productivity and growth was illusory

'Interim Budget populist; elections remain biggest near-term trigger'

The Interim Budget is a typical election budget but it also shows continuation in the endeavor of the government to improve the income level of lower sections of population, Aggarwal says.

Interim Budget falls short on a key promise made by Modi; creating jobs

With more than 90% of the labor force employed in the informal economy, the government has struggled to produce reliable data to get an accurate read on the level of joblessness in India

Cash for farmers, tax relief to boost growth, but at fiscal cost: Moody's

Ongoing fiscal slippage from spending and tax cut proposals ahead of the election is credit negative for the sovereign, Moody's said

Infrastructure woes

Redistributive schemes take their toll on allocation

No support for govt employees, taxpayers under PM-KISAN scheme for farmers

Announced in the Interim Budget, the scheme is supposed to provide an additional Rs 6,000 per annum income support to small and marginal farmers

Would have done 100 more things but for interim Budget: Piyush Goyal

Throughout the period, we have taken a series of measures for a better future for farmers, says Goyal

LS passes Interim Budget; allocation for farmers not small, says Goyal

Goyal also refuted the criticism that the government has presented a full Budget in an election year, saying "we have not announced any new scheme for the next year's Budget.

India needs fewer but stronger, mega banks: FM Jaitley after RBI meet

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the central bank will discuss the issue of transmission of rate cut with bank heads