PM's announcement were focused on those most affected by the note ban.
Eco affairs secretary says double counting possible; cash availability to improve in three weeks.
Cash withdrawal limits likely to continue
The FRBM report, to be submitted on Tuesday, is likely to have 'excuse clauses', absolving the government of meeting its fiscal commitments under certain conditions such as war or conflict, global economic meltdowns or natural disasters.
Reports from Ludhiana, Coimbatore, Moradabad, Tirupur, Indore, Surat, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad, suggest the impact of demonetisation is worsening.
A task force will speed up the recalibration of 200,000 ATMs so these can dispense the new Rs 2,000 notes.
The focus is likely to be on consolidation and improvement of existing rural-centric programmes to ensure their completion ahead of the next general elections in 2019, rather than announcement of new schemes. Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Arup Roychoudhury report.
Government hits back, tells rating agency to introspect on processes.
The government has managed Rs 21,000 crore through stake sales and buybacks in the first six months, the highest-ever first half divestment revenue for any year by a good margin, raising expectations for the rest of FY17.
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian says that he hopes GDP growth will be at the upper end of the 7-7.5 per cent range.
'GST gives a huge relief to small businesses of India and West Bengal.'
The trust deficit has widened with buyers losing confidence in a developer's ability to construct and deliver a project on time.
The idea behind advancing the Budget date is to ensure that the Finance Bill is passed before the start of the financial year, on April 1, so that all central government departments get their full allocations to work with right from the first day
Amendments to the Child Labour Act say children can work in 'family enterprises' but the definition isn't clear, points out Shyamal Majumdar.
Make In India and the reduction in barriers of trade will potentially create a growth environment.
Scrapping Plan and non-Plan classifications necessitates the change
The disagreement between the Centre and states continued over administrative powers.
The government has to cover a lot of ground if it wants to achieve the target of generating 10 million new jobs in the sector over the next three years, says Shyamal Majumdar.
"We did not abuse RBI governors," says Chidambaram.
Indian carmakers will have no option but to manufacture safer cars from October 2017.
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