Ministry considering tax sops for India's first global financial centre, steps to liberalise futures and options markets.
The government will decide in August whether to sell a 5 percent stake in ONGC, a senior oil ministry official said, in a deal that would be worth $2.9 billion at current market prices.
Demonetisation hit informal sector hard and caused job losses which was not addressed by the budget, Moily said.
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Kejriwal has shown once again that a political party once mandated to ensure governance cannot act the same way it did before assuming power.
Four specific areas will be watched carefully in the first half of FY16
The move is aimed at reflecting the diversity of India and highlighting the contribution of prominent personalities.
Bringing in the untapped informal sector into the formal one will benefit business.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said his government has carried out major reforms -- including labour reforms and reforms in insurance and defence sectors -- 'in less than 100 days' and stopped reversals Indian economy had been facing.
From his run-ins with the Centre to his political knack to sail through choppy waters, the Delhi CM has shown uncommon talent in running a 'common man's' government.
The finance minister defended the change in the tax rates.
Government needs tight control over both expenditure and populism.
Encouraging domestic financial savings through focused measures would help mobilise long term resources for funding infrastructure and economic development.
The industry's reactions to the Budget have been mixed.
An ambitious long-term vision to ensure economic connectivity between India and the rest of Southern Asia is critical to India's trade policy objectives.
The text of the Income tax amendment is so wide and so riddled with ambiguities that it deserves to be scrapped for those reasons alone, says N S Nigam.
The Budget has evoked mixed reactions from Silicon Valley investors.
Chanda Kochhar is among the three Indians in Time's Most Influential list.
In a frontal attack on the Narendra Modi government, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said there has been an "alarming increase" in communal incidents since it came to power and asked party men to resist its "authoritarian and sectarian" tendencies.
With Jaitley preferring continuity over change, good days might take a little longer to arrive, says Shankar Acharya.
Common people expect the government to be aggressive and opt for growth related measures in the upcoming Budget.
Jaitley's team presents a quintessential mix of foreign-educated, intellectual technocrats and seasoned bureaucrats
China's economy is in transition, with rising wage costs and massive overcapacity.
The finance minister hiked the total defence expenditure from Rs 203,672 crore in FY 2013-2014 to Rs 229,000 crore for FY 2014-2015. Though the increase appears substantial, it is insufficient to undertake the military modernisation necessary to meet the emerging threats, feels Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
'Will 'Make in India' be able to harness the demographic dividend so it does not become a disaster?' 'Will 'Digital India' live up to the lofty promises the government and private sector made as part of its recent launch?'
'Let us also not expect that there will be a clean break with the past, much though the new government might like to think about it. In a functional democracy that is neither feasible nor desirable. But basic change it must be,' says Shreekant Sambrani.
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