The interconnection charge has been reduced.
The government on Wednesday said it will raise Rs 72,500 crore through disinvestment of PSUs, including listing of three railway PSUs IRCTC, IRFC and IRCON, and proposed merger and consolidation to create globally competitive public sector units.
A part of Rs 6.5 lakh cr corpus may be used to set up Workers' Bank.
The e-auction is seeing aggressive bidding.
They said that massive public investment in infrastructure, social sectors and agriculture would generate employment and the Union Budget should give it a priority and allocate necessary funds for this.
Hike in planned public-sector capital expenditure will be credit-positive for infra cos
Sentiments may get impacted as mutual funds have been gaining traction among investors as route to invest in stock markets
Inflation is on a declining trend, Eco Survey stated.
FDI into the country increased by 30 per cent to $21.62 billion during April-September this fiscal.
The US retail giant operates 20 wholesale stores under the brand 'Best Price' in India.
The regulator has sought an increase in the investment limit for tax-saving equity mutual fund schemes to Rs 200,000 from the current Rs 150,000.
Market linking of petrol and diesel prices has helped the industry.
Mr Prabhu has set the railways on a course of investing big .
Jaitley said govt would achieve 4.1% fiscal deficit target in FY15.
In the current fiscal, as per the revised estimate, these two companies raised Rs 14,942 crore (Rs 149.42 billion) from markets.
Farmers have been availing crop loans upto Rs 300,000 at 7%.
The third round of spectrum auction continued to witness aggressive bidding even after completion of seventeen rounds on Wednesday with demands for both bands of airwaves on offer continuing to pour in.
The government last year introduced the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.
Sebi has been probing Prayag Group for allegedly running unauthorised collective investment scheme and for defaulting in repayments to various small investors.
The government had disallowed as much as $1.005 billion of its investment as KG-D6 output lagged targets.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented the Railway Budget in the Parliament on Thursday.
After presenting his first railway budget, Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said he was not for populism but wanted to be "realistic" to ensure that the national transporter thrives for the people of the country.
They need to have 15 years of mainstream banking experience
The cut in the policy rate by RBI will help lower interest rates
Manufacturing growth in India lost momentum in February.
Finance Ministry is considering to sell 5 per cent stake in ONGC in the current fiscal, which could garner about Rs 17,000 crore to the exchequer.
A panel has recommended that the RBI should bring down CPI inflation to 4 per cent.
India's current account deficit (CAD) will be contained at USD 45 billion this financial year, well below the record high level of 2012-13, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Monday.
The target announced is 13.6 per cent higher than that set last year and 145.4 per cent higher than the revised target for 2013-14.
Leaks of documents are neither new nor limited to particular ministries.
India Inc is encouraged by a determined Budget.
Post-Budget survey find GDP numbers as 'too optimistic'
Govt is set to garner Rs 1 lakh crore from sale of radiowaves.
China aims to set common standards on issues.
The economy hasn't gathered even half the traction that some of us assumed it would just a year back.
But do not expect the finance minister to fulfil all these wishes
Auto sector has nothing to look forward to in the Budget.
Sectors throw up a wishlist for the Finance Minister.
We have only rationalised the freight rates, says the minister.
Then chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, had laid the JSW project's foundation stone on November 2,2008, for the 10-million tonne capacity plant.
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