Instruments such as Reits, InvITs, unsponsored GDR, GIFT find few takers.
Jaitley said focus is on larger expenditure on social sector.
Increase of 10% to 12% likely in a bid to improve citizens' mood after demonetisation.
For the urban population, recalibration of ATMs has already started and they will start dispensing the new Rs 2,000 currency notes from Monday or Tuesday.
The chargesheet names 14 accused, including the Congress leader's son Karti Chidambaram, Peter Mukherjea and Indrani Mukerjea.
Airlines have opposed the rules that make it compulsory for them to pay compensation to passengers in case a flight is delayed by more than four hours
The country added $28.5 billion more debt as on March 31. But almost 10 per cent of the addition in total external debt during the year was put on exchange rate difference connected to major international currencies and a weakening US dollar.
The policy is not likely to make a splash of an impact on the economy
From Sri Lanka's most popular political family to its most despised -- going by the voices on the streets calling for the Rajapaksas' ouster -- what went wrong for the clan? Veteran Sri Lanka watcher N Sathiya Moorthy offers an insight.
Thus it was that for the first time in the history of the republic a constitutional amendment was announced and passed by Parliament within 72 hours, reports R Rajagopalan.
Fiscal situation better but spending cuts likely in FY16 too.
If someone does reduce his contribution, he should scale it back to the 12% level as soon as he can, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
At the best, the so called Rs 1.25 lakh crore package will not provide anything more than Rs 10,368 crore as additional or incremental resource to the state, said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
The government on Tuesday reassured chartered accountants and lawyers that training unemployed youth to be 'Income Tax Preparers' was not aimed at depriving them of work.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
How do we get back to higher trend growth? The heart of the problem lies in private corporate investment, recommends Ajay Shah.
India should take 'measured approach' with stimulus packages to deal with COVID-19 by limiting interventions to the provision of food, shelter and basic necessities of life for all; forbearance on payments of outstanding loans; and extra provision of working capital including what will be necessary to cover outstanding wages from lockdown period to enterprises.
Imported liquor is all set to become cheaper with the government likely to bring in a Bill in Parliament next month to scrap additional customs duty on wines and spirits
Centre shows optimism of achieving the target of 4.1% at back of recent measures and turn around in manufacturing.
Jaitley's team presents a quintessential mix of foreign-educated, intellectual technocrats and seasoned bureaucrats
The incoming government will have to encourage private investments, bring down cost of capital
The street-fighter attitude is what keeps Rane going even at 69. The expectation is -- at least in the BJP camp -- that he will be itching for a battle royale with the Shiv Sena in its bastions.
While the most obvious beneficiary of this roll-out will be manufacturers of FASTags, or the Radio Frequency Identification chips, a PwC report says implementation of a pan-India electronic toll collection system on national highways may help save approximately Rs 87,000 crore annually.
On Tuesday, Finance Minister P Chidambaram had more than adequately made clear that the government would be allocating Rs 14,000 crore through Budget, the Financial Services Secretary said.
The Reserve Bank on Friday said the economy would grow by 5 to 5.5 per cent in the current fiscal, pinning its hopes on good farm output and improved exports.
The largest challenge for the gigantic exercise between the Centre and the 29 states was to keep the latter interested over the years.
For example, railways, roads and highways, and shipping could form a section within the Budget as an omnibus transport sector
The ripples from November 8 may be seen in next year's state budgets.
On the day its financial year was ending, Japan on Friday extended the largest ever soft loan package of yen 155,458 million (about Rs 5,910 crore) to India for 2005-2006 fiscal for various projects including the second phase of the Delhi Metro.
In his petition, Karti contended that the July 18 circular had been issued arbitrarily and without jurisdiction by the Foreigner Regional Registration Officer and The Bureau of Immigration under the Union home ministry at the behest of different agencies to prevent him from travelling abroad.
The loss of income has severely dented the loan repayment ability of small borrowers
Advocating the move, home ministry officials said most of the developed countries change the security features of their currency notes every 3-4 years and therefore, it is absolutely necessary for India to follow this policy.
The reshuffle is likely to take place after the ongoing Budget session ends on April 12, reports Archis Mohan.
The high-level meeting comes against the backdrop of the rupee touching a record low of 58.98 to a dollar on Tuesday.
New Delhi has missed its target for partial privatisations for the past five years
