Budget 2021: Nirmala Sitharaman meets President Kovind ahead of Budget speech

Budget copies will be disseminated electronically, with documents being uploaded on the government website and on a special app

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Unemployment has naturally followed the opposite trajectory, going from about 4% before Modi became PM to 6% and then to 9%

Sources say that the first meeting of the budget preparing exercise took place with officials of the department of financial services

If Bihar is to get the Covid vaccine free, will other states also get it free? Has the cost of this been calculated?

Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme was launched to provide much-needed relief to the MSME sector to meet their operational requirements

The scheme implemented by New India Assurance was to end on June 30 as part of Rs 1.70 lakh Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan package in March

No late fee will be levied for delayed filing of GST returns by registered entities with nil liability, said Sitharaman

He said the three-month moratorium offered for loan repayments announced by Reserve Bank of India is "not enough"

Reduction in EPF contributions shall be applicable "in respect of wages payable by it for the months of May, June and July, 2020"

Muraleedharan urged the diaspora to invest in India given the opportunity being offered by the major economic reforms