Budget planners for now have been told to prepare with the assumption that GST will apply from April 1.
At present, 70% of the mobile handsets sold in India are imported.
Education sector has reasosn to cheer Budget.
Greetings from all quarters, including his political rivals, poured in on Monday for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who celebrated his 68th birthday in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi.
The success of the government will depend substantially on the quality of its team of key ministers, officials and advisors
Ahead of his government's first full year budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sought ideas from economists to attract investments, create jobs and finance infrastructure to put India back on high growth path.
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.
'If Mr Modi continues growing as a Hindu Hriday Samrat, better that it is done by restoring ancient temples than demolishing medieval mosques,' says Shekhar Gupta.
For the past five months, ever since he was appointed the Ayushman CEO, Indu Bhushan, a former bureaucrat, has made Nirman Bhawan his second home, working nine to nine with his "dedicated team" on the Modi government's biggest initiative after the Goods and Services Tax, says Nivedita Mookerji.
'There is economic danger: Not inflation, but a slowdown that feeds an employment crisis,' says T N Ninan.
Delhi is a year-round health hazard that visitors shun like the plague, says Sunil Sethi.
The former finance minister was in Mumbai to address Congress party's poll rallies.
With the Modi government close to completing its two years in office, a new survey on Saturday said nearly half of the respondents (49 per cent) feel "no change" in their living standards while another 15 per cent feel the situation has actually worsened.
NDA government has shunned populism.
Rising rural distress due to back-to-back droughts have put pressure on FM to spend more on social schemes; no change in tax slabs likely
Economy to grow by 7.2-7.5 per cent in second half of current fiscal, says FM.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, felicitated the medal winners from the recently-concluded Asian Games over a breakfast meeting at his residence and said sportspersons do as much for the country as political leaders.
President Pranab Mukherjee addressed a joint session of Parliament ahead of the budget session which began on Tuesday. Here are the highlights of President Pranab Mukherjee's speech:
Several of Modi's actions reflect political courage.
The nation on Thursday remembered Mahatma Gandhi on his 145th birth anniversary with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders paying floral tributes at his memorial in New Delhi.
Modi accused opponents of trying to pit one section against the other while his government is working towards taking all people along
'The BJP wants to divide Hindus and Muslims.'
It is urgent that we break the silence around the 'M' word, one ward and gram panchayat at a time, so that women and girls -- irrespective of their financial capacity -- can demand the information and materials they need, says Archana Patkar.
He has driven into the Limca Book of Records twice. Tamanna Naseer finds out more about the battles Eric Paul fights despite being paraplegic.
The threshold limit for deduction of tax at source has been raised for unusual income such as winnings from horse race, commission
The law minister said 20 Muslim countries in the world, including Pakistan and Malaysia, have banned the triple talaq. "Why can't a secular India do it?" he asked.
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation's decision to make washrooms in hotels and eateries open to the public for a fee highlights India's failure to expand access to toilet facilities.
Modi said there has been a 'silent revolution'.
While inaugurating the projects, Modi said highways construction has reached 27-km a day from mere 12-km a day during the Congress regime.
There is nothing India-like about Sikkim and nothing Sikkimese about, well, large parts of India.
There will be some populist announcements in Budget.
'There will be some issues of contention, especially on H1B visa and on trade policy.'
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and Make in India -- are not covered here.
The government's top leadership was happy with Prabhu's Budget.
Lack of sanitation is leading to avoidable deaths of infants, and underweight and stunted children.
'Modi is likely to make more announcements to win or retain popularity, and put himself at the centre of things even more than now,' says T N Ninan.
Sops for middle class, poor and farmers on cards.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of indulging in political exploitation of the sacrifices of soldiers in remarks that come in the wake of cross-LoC surgical strikes on terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Fiscal consolidation is keenly awaited.
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