The IT sector is confronted with a host of issues.
The government will have to enhance economic activities if it wants to control fiscal deficit.
India will probably unveil bold reforms in its budget on Thursday in a bid to turn around an economy growing at decade lows.
Will Finance Minister Arun Jaitley live up to the expectations of India Inc and individual taxpayers? Watch all the action here live from Parliament.
Modi said the Budget, on one hand, empowers the states and on the other, it manages national priorities.
Corporate India has high hopes from the upcoming Budget.
Common people dishes out a wishlist for the finance minister.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government would take bold decisions and pursue path of fiscal prudence to revive economy.
This Budget will set a direction to increase the ease of doing business and restore confidence in the economy.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley might next month launch mobile banking services for people not using smartphones.
Jaitley, who is holding pre-Budget meetings with different stake holders, said it is the policy of the new government that 'Team India' will not be limited to the government sitting in Delhi but will also include states as equal partners in the growth.
The appointment will be made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in consultation with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
The finance minister could review customs duty on crude oil, other exemptions.
The United Progressive Alliance government in 2011 introduced a Constitution Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha to pave the way for the GST regime which aims at subsuming most of the indirect taxes at the central as well as the state levels.
During his first Union Budget in July 2014, former finance minister Arun Jaitley announced the setting up of an institution called 3P India, with an allocation of Rs 500 crore. The intention was to mainstream public-private partnerships (PPPs) in India. The plan was to bring together the capacities of the government and private sector to push PPP projects.
He was commenting on a reply given by Jaitley to a question in Rajya Sabha.
Mutual funds subscriptions and redemptions will not be permitted on February 1 because all the fund houses in their scheme information documents have declared Saturday and Sunday as "non-business day".
Political leaders tend to make comments that embarrass them. On Thursday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addressing a tourism meet said, "One small incident of rape in Delhi was enough to cost of million dollars in terms of lower number of tourists. We have national responsibility and God has given us everything which tourists want to see, we just have to catalyse that process and make sure of that we take right step."
Rajya Sabha returns Finance Bill to Lok Sabha; budgetary process over in both Houses, President nod needed now.
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Many private economists consider the deficit target optimistic, citing weak tax receipts in a sluggish economy and high federal expenditure commitments.
The government on Friday announced some concessions for mutual fund industry and income tax payers, while comitting to low tax regime to promote industrial activity to generate jobs and create more resources to undertake social welfare activities.
Capital formation in agriculture is the key to the development of the rural infrastructure, said the finance minister.
The much-delayed Insurance Bill seeks to raise the foreign investment cap in the sector from 26 per cent to 49 per cent, with a rider that the management control rests in the hands of Indian promoter.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said it should be mandatory for those filing public interest litigations against the government on development projects to declare their source of funds, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned the judiciary against being influenced by "five-star activists".
It is unfair to expect Mr Jaitley to perform miracles with the Centre's straitened finances.
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Pre-Budget Economic Survey tabled in Parliament.
The govt rode to power on promises of providing relief to inflation-hit middle class.
The minister asked the state governments to assess the problem as action taken after price rise creates panic in the market.
The key numbers in Mr Jaitley's Budget will be looked at closely to assess the extent of revisions they represent over what Mr Chidambaram had presented in February.
The Sports Ministry budget on Wednesday got a substantial hike of Rs 350 crore in the union budget for 2017-18, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Parliament.
Govt mulls gradual increase in prices of domestic cooking gas, urea.
Will Jaitley be successful in achieving an economic turnaround?
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was on Friday at the centre of a row over his "small rape incident" remark with attack being mounted on him from various quarters even as he said he had not referred to any particular case and that he had no intention of trivialising any crime.
The RBI was not party to the decision to demonetize 500 and 1,000-rupee notes, which was taken at the highest level of India's political leadership.
Consider the credentials of our pro-farmer governments: almost half our rural households lack electricity connections, says Rahul Jacob.
India should not loosen its fiscal deficit targets in the forthcoming budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's top economic adviser Arvind Panagariya said.
However, the revised target, 16.7 per cent higher than stated in the interim Budget in February, looks unrealistic.
The Budget has proposed increasing the income tax exemption limit to Rs 250,000 from Rs 200,000 and raised the ceiling on investment in saving instruments to Rs 150,000 from Rs 100,000 per annum.
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