Amid unemployment chorus, Budget claims over 379k new jobs in govt depts

The government said it has generated 251,279 jobs in central government establishments between 2017 and 2018.

Difficult for govt to maintain 3.4 pc fiscal deficit in FY'20: Moody's

The govt has pegged the fiscal deficit for the next financial year at 3.4 per cent of GDP, as against the original target of 3.1 per cent.

Unemployment rate in India stood at 6.1 per cent in the period of 2017-18.

The interim Budget comes after the disappointing moves made by the Union government to control a quick execution in its eCommerce policy.

The GST council’s fitment committee would take a final decision with all states on board.

Govt is in the process of appointing the chief economic advisor (CEA) who could soon take charge.

The central bank in April gave six months time to global payment companies to store transaction data of Indian customers within India.

Arun Jaitley had earlier announced a cut of Rs 2.50 per litre on both petrol and diesel prices.

The way India designed its GST, I would actually give it 2 out of 10, says Manpreet Singh Badal.

The meeting was also attended by Subhash Chandra Garg, Rajiv Kumar and Ajay Prakash Sawhney.