The Taliban's remarks came after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed a $25 million development aid package for Afghanistan in the Union Budget.
As the finance minister rises in the House to present the Budget, some interesting facts about the annual financial plan for the country.
'The biggest risk to the Indian markets from a 12-18-month view is that the current government does not get re-elected, or loses in a way that is not represented at all in the next central government.'
An alternate aircraft of Indian budget carrier SpiceJet flew to Dubai from Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on Tuesday night, ending a wait of nearly 11 hours for 138 passengers who got stranded there after taking off from New Delhi in the morning.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents his maiden budget next month and faces headwinds from a weak economy, a food inflation scare and now the risk that higher oil prices could swell the government's oil subsidy bill.
Budget carrier SpiceJet on Thursday said it has been designated as the "Indian scheduled carrier" to operate flights to the US.
InterGlobe Enterprises Ltd on Thursday announced its plans to launch IndiGo, its nation-wide low-cost airline venture.
Virgin Atlantic plans to operate three flights a week from Delhi to London's Heathrow from September 2, while Mumbai services are planned to re-commence from September 17 with four flights per week. Both the destinations will provide connections to New York JFK and will operate on 787-9 Dreamliner.
Some international markets offer interest rates as low as one per cent, which could reduce the government's interest cost significantly.
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InterGlobe's IPO is India's biggest since the listing of around $750 million by Bharti Infratel Ltd in December 2012.
Her speech was laced with Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit and even Tamil verses.
P Chidambaram has unveiled a bigger-than-expected outlay for the coming fiscal year.
Lalit Ahluwalia, CFO, Ranbaxy North America, presents his views on the Indian Budget 2009 at Asia Society in New York.
Total budget expenditure will hit Rs 16.65 trillion in the fiscal year that begins on April 1.
SpiceJet has held "preliminary discussions" with a Gulf airline for potential investment in the Indian budget carrier, a news report has said.
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The airline, which posted an annual loss of Rs 191 crore (Rs 1.91 billion) for the past financial year, has been looking to raise funds for months.
As the global economic scenario is improving, Ajay Chhibber, regional director (Asia and the Pacific) for the United Nations Development Programme, believes employment will be the major indicator to gauge the firmness of the economic recovery.
The Indian Budget 2009-10 presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee earlier this week, has disappointed many Indian American investors as it does not focus adequately on some of the key issues, including disinvestment and infrastructure development, IACC said on Friday.
The group chairman Srichand P Hinduja said in that finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has presented a 'confidence - building Budget of hope and change with focus on all inclusive growth.
While RBI may cut rates by 25 basis points in the February policy review, global monetary policies hold the key to much of the financial assets flow in 2017
Deutsche Bank expects the Sensex to climb only 8% in 2017 to 29,000, and expects high volatility.
The government is moving ahead slowly but steadily.
SpiceJet Ltd., an Indian budget airline, will likely to sell a foreign currency convertible bond worth $90 million by early September to raise money for more plane purchases, a company executive said Wednesday.
The number of Indian passengers has jumped more than 20 per cent in the past year
Indian budget airline SpiceJet has agreed to buy around 40 Boeing 737 passenger jets worth over $4 billion at list prices as it seeks to modernize its fleet and climb out of the red, industry sources said on Tuesday.
IndiGo was set up in 2006 by businessman Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal, a former CEO for US Airways Group.
India will find it tough to meet its fiscal deficit target for the new year starting in April, given its plans to cut taxes and step up spending on infrastructure, Moody's Investors Service said.
Mauritius wanted extension of the benefits limitation clause in India's treaty with Singapore, which we were quite willing to extend, for our price
'For the first month, we have only had 5.5 million who have paid the tax.' '40 per cent have paid nil as tax; 95 per cent of the taxation for the first two months has come from only 400,000 assessees.' 'So even now, the tax-paying habit, of paying a marginal or negligible amount, or not paying anything at all, is quite prevalent,' reveals Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Internal management tensions, stiff opposition from Chinese handset makers led to halving of the company's market share
Germany is now sitting on a mountain of savings.
From lack of big reforms to regressive tax policies, the Modi govt has surrendered its initial momentum, says Shishir Asthana.
National carrier Air India became part of the 27-member global airlines grouping Star Alliance, as budget airline AirAsia India launched operations and Tata-SIA joint venture carrier Vistara received the flying permit and announced its intentions to start operations from January 9.
'The toughest challenge is not to satisfy the luxury customer.' 'The toughest challenge is to satisfy the budget customer.'
Since 2000, India has had three serious droughts.
There have been two changes announced so far as MF taxation is concerned.
The industry's reactions to the Budget have been mixed.
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