The Nifty and Sensex traded close to their respective all-time highs.
The first Budget of Independent India was presented by R K Shanmukham Chetty on November 26, 1947.
Modi's government sees itself in a sweet spot with spare cash.
Prabhu's maiden Railway budget is high on vision.
Suresh Prabhu has announced a slew of measures to improve servcies in trains and railway stations
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu announced new initiatives.
There isn't much Budget could do directly to help sectors.
Investors in exchange-traded funds can trade on bourses.
The BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices have performed better than the front-liners
Inputs by the Petroleum Ministry were found among stolen documents.
In the Union Budget presented in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, a total of Rs 1,52,369 crore has been set aside for capital expenditure that includes purchasing new weapons, aircraft, warships and other military hardware.
The Budget loosened the reins on public spending to drive growth.
According to Nasscom, India must make its R&D significantly more robust to realise the 'Make in India' dream
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his maiden budget last week in which he vowed to contain fiscal deficit at 4.1 per cent this year and lower it to 3 per cent by 2016-17.
The railways have been able to project improvement in finances.
Railways Minister Sadananda Gowda will present his maiden Rail Budget on July 8 in Parliament.
The new Budget would do well to fill up the gaps and pave a strong way forward to ensure that the optimism surrounding it is not short-lived.
Stocks might hit new highs even before B-Day.
Budget 2018 bears imprints of a government unsure of second term with clear majority, says Shekhar Gupta.
The service conditions and judges' remuneration are not alluring .
There will be a review of employee compensation arrangement in the light of the new rules.
As part of the long-standing ritual, the sweet dish is prepared in a large vessel and consumed by a large number of official and support staff who are required to stay in the North Block office till the presentation of the Budget, which is February 28 this year.
The IS curve is a measure of the sensitivity between GDP and prevailing interest rates.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the securities transaction tax (STT) will be increased on futures and options (F&O) trade from October 1 to discourage retail investors from investing in the risky instrument.
The government's capex spend is expected to rise and much of this is likely to be focussed on rural India, particularly for housing, roads and irrigation.
US budget deficit to come down to $583 billion in 2014
The Budget will 'further reignite our growth engine, signalling the dawn of a prosperous future.'
India is Asia's third-best performing equity market.
'For me, if I want to buy a house to stay, I don't care about indexation because I don't want to sell that house.' 'The only thing that matters to me as a buyer is that the home price should be within my reach.' 'Any market, when speculators and investors go out, it will benefit the middle class.'
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has shortlisted the changes it hopes to see in Budget 2017.
To help compare numbers better, FinMin might retain the interim Budget Estimates with the new ones.
The government will formulate a strategy to make India self-reliant in edible oils by boosting domestic output of oilseeds and launch a comprehensive programme to support dairy farmers, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Thursday. India imports a large quantity of edible oils to meet the domestic demand. During the 2022-23 marketing year (November-October), the country imported nearly 165 lakh tonnes of cooking oils, valuing a whopping Rs 1.38 lakh crore.
India's track record of over-promising and under-delivering also leaves plenty of room for doubt.
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we are facing a situation of empty coffers but eagerness to expand.
That "Rollback Budget" ushered in an era of rollback.
The general masses have high expectations from the Budget.
As many as 65 per cent of respondents have positive expectations from the budget and believe that it will succeed in giving a definite push to economic growth and job creation, a survey has said.
The government will take special efforts to ensure adequate credit flow to underserved areas -- the eastern states and Jammu-Kashmir, he added.
GST collections touched a record of Rs 1.40 lakh crore in January on rapid economic recovery, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday. In her 2022-23 Budget speech, the minister said there has been a remarkable progress made in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, but still a few challenges remain. "Gross GST collection in January at record Rs 1,40,986 crores; this has been possible due to rapid economic recovery," she said while presenting the Budget in the Lok Sabha. January is the seventh straight month when the GST collection has crossed the Rs 1 lakh crore mark.
