German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on a three-day visit to India.
For his first Budget in July 2014, Jaitley inherited a fiscal deficit target of 4.1 per cent of GDP. From 4.1 per cent, the fiscal deficit came down to 3.4 per cent by 2018-19, with two slippages from the budgeted targets, in 2017-18 and 2018-19, the former due to introduction of the GST, says Arup Roychoudhury.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday presented the Union Budget for 2016-17.
Top Congress sources said they would not hold up the Bill.
The state has extended its full support, provided its revenues are protected.
The sector seems set for a rally that may be somewhat temporary.
The Bill provides comprehensive legislation to prohibit unregulated deposits, with punishment for those promoting such schemes or defaulting on repayment.
The scheme is aimed at slashing the salary and pension bills of the three services, which have been increasing rapidly.
Defence outlay alone will jump 22 per cent
The RBI announced its monetary policy on Tuesday.
Nancy Pelosi's gritty refusal to backtrack on her plans to visit Taiwan is part of who she is.
Since the Union Budget, gold has become costlier by 8-9 per cent because of a 2.5 per cent increase in import duty to 12.5 per cent and about a 5 per cent depreciation in the rupee.
The India growth story is still intact, and fall in the Indian stock markets is an imported one and if the government succeeds in legislating the GST and Land Bill, India could yet emerge as a winner believe stock market experts
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Hasmukh Adhia to present revenue dept's performance over past year & plan for current financial year
Investors lost Rs 2 trillion as Sensex crashed on Tuesday.
A final call will be taken by Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday.
The National Democratic Alliance won 64 seats.
He also pointed out that the home ministry was neither consulted, nor did it give the necessary security clearance
According to the global financial services firm, FY16 would be a notable year for India with gradual improvement in economic growth and declining inflationary pressures amid falling global commodity prices and policy initiatives.
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Ruptures in the opposition unity emerged barely a week after 17 parties joined hands to put up a joint candidate against the ruling National Democratic Alliance nominee for the July 17 presidential election.
To meet the yearly target, each of the next five months has to yield Rs 1.107 trillion GST collections.
Modi sarkar took few initiatives to uplift the poor strate of society.
While seven of the suspended MPs belonged to the TMC, six were from the DMK, three from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, two from the Communist Party of India-Marxist and one from the Communist Party of India.
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Now, in many cases, they give no old jewellery but the bills they get show gold as provided by them, the jeweller's making charge and the GST on that.
The mandate will help further the development agenda in these states, with good governance and policy reforms taking centrestage
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her second Budget a little more than a month from now. Like any other FM, Sitharaman will depend on her team of bureaucrats and advisors to frame and present the Budget.
The winter session of Parliament is set to be stormy with Opposition parties closing ranks to target the government on issues including 'intolerance' even as the ruling dispensation expressed its readiness to discuss all issues.
The president also pitched for simultaneous elections to Parliament and state assemblies, saying there was a need to discuss and build a consensus among all parties on the possibility of holding simultaneous polls.
For India, it is business as usual with the government muddling along.
The Centre had set up a Commission under former Reserve Bank of India Governor Bimal Jalan to suggest steps to rationalise subsidy and help the government in effectively bringing down the fiscal deficit.
Although the markets could see a knee-jerk reaction, they rule out a sharp fall.
The Madras high court on Wednesday set aside an order of the previous AIADMK regime to convert late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's residence, 'Veda Nilayam' in Chennai as a memorial.
Structural changes to government finances could be focus of the Union Budget, says Mihir S Sharma.
The government wants to introduce a nationwide goods and services tax to revive its stalled reform programme.
The fiscal gains from implementing the GST and demonetisation, while almost certain to occur, will probably take time to be fully realised
This means taxpayers might continue to enjoy exemption on maturity of their investments
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to discuss state-level issues before finalising GST.
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