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Fiscal deficit touches 128.5% of budget estimate

Fiscal deficit touches 128.5% of budget estimate

Rediff.com28 Feb 2020

While presenting the Union Budget to Parliament earlier this month, Finance Minister Nirmalal Sitharaman had raised fiscal deficit target to 3.8 per cent of the GDP from 3.3 per cent pegged earlier for 2019-20 due to revenue shortage.

Modi uses caste card to counter Priyanka barb, Cong calls him 'spin master'

Modi uses caste card to counter Priyanka barb, Cong calls him 'spin master'

Rediff.com6 May 2014

In a sharp retort to Priyanka Gandhi's barb of indulging in "low-level" politics, Narendra Modi on Tuesday invoked his 'backward class' status to further mount attack on the Congress' star campaigner.

Decoding the Modi government

Decoding the Modi government

Rediff.com28 May 2014