It was not immediately clear as to how many days he will stay in Pakistan.
If the government were to give heed to its fiscal imprudence, cut down on its 'extravagant' and non-productive expenditures, inflation could be controlled
The first consignment of 75,000 vials will reach India on Friday, it added.
This follows a widespread criticism of its pricing policy as it sold Covaxin to the central government at Rs 150 per dose.
While the Trump administration wants India to lower the trade barriers and embrace "fair and reciprocal" trade, India has raised tariffs on 28 items exported from the US in retaliation to America's withdrawal of preferential access for Indian products.
'Government's focus should be on the expenditure side in this Budget, not so much on the taxation side.'
The Centre and states are likely to budget for higher market borrowings to the tune of Rs 2.3 lakh crore next fiscal even though the Union budget may peg a lower-than-expected fiscal deficit for the Centre at 5.8 per cent of GDP, says a report. Icra Ratings anticipates higher redemptions will lead to gross market borrowings of the Centre to rise to Rs 14.8 lakh crore and of the states to jump by Rs 1.6 lakh crore to Rs 9.6 lakh crore, taking the combined borrowings (of the Centre and the states) to Rs 24.4 lakh crore in FY2024, up by 2.3 lakh crore from FY23 combined. In FY23, the Centre's gross borrowings are budgeted at Rs 14.1 lakh crore and of the states at Rs 8 lakh crore, or a combined borrowing of Rs 22.1 lakh crore, according to the agency.
The DRI sleuths seized the vehicle of businessman Chandan Basu during an ongoing probe into a racket of importing cars by evading custom duty upto 105 per cent
Sri Lanka has slashed tariffs by up to 70 per cent on India goods such as cement, petroleum products and motorcycles under a bilateral trade deal.
As the FM said, this is a Budget that lays the foundation for the next 25 years, observes Kumar Mangalam Birla.
The government collected over 40 per cent more revenue from taxes at Rs 44,463 crore (Rs 444.63 billion) during the first quarter of this fiscal against Rs 31,668 during the corresponding period of 2005-06.
