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For the week, the Sensex lost 448.86 points, or 1.69 per cent, while the broader NSE Nifty dropped 153.70 points, or 1.88 per cent.

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Budget belies market hopes, Sensex ends in red

The NSE Nifty saw volatility and ended at 11,016.90, down 10.80 points, or 0.10 per cent.

1 Feb 2018 4:33 PM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley meets President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan before presenting the Union Budget 2018-19 in the Parliament. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

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Twitter reacts to Union Budget 2018

Jaitley said the focus of Budget is agriculture and rural economy, health, infrastructure and senior citizens.

1 Feb 2018 4:29 PM IST

The amount for defence pension is an increase of 26.60 per cent over the allocation of Rs 85,740 crore last year. (Photo: Twitter/ANI)

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Rs 2.95 lakh crore allocated for defence budget for 2018-19

Outlay for defence budget amounted to 12.10 per cent of the total budget of Rs 24,42,213 crore for 2018-19.

1 Feb 2018 4:18 PM IST

At the end of the five-day auction, nearly 60 per cent of the spectrum had remained unsold.

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Govt expects Rs 48,661.42 crore from telecom sector in FY19

Govt earns revenue in the form of mainly licence fees and spectrum usage charges from telecom operators.

1 Feb 2018 3:36 PM IST

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Budget has free healthcare for 10 cr poor, sops for farmers; Modi...

Salaried get back standard deduction of 40k; govt taxes long-term capital gains in equity.

1 Feb 2018 3:32 PM IST

The CPEC is a network of infrastructure projects that are currently under construction throughout Pakistan that will connect Chinas Xinjiang province with Gwadar port in Pakistans Balochistan province. (Photo: AFP)

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Budget 2018: Boost to economy, Rs 5.97 lakh cr allocated for...

In his Budget address, Finance Minister Jaitley termed infrastructure as 'growth driver' of the economy.

1 Feb 2018 3:06 PM IST

Companies that will run these airports have been given some concessions for fuel and electricity.

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UDAN to connect 56 unserved airports, says Jaitley

Govt has proposed expansion of airport capacity by more than five times to handle a billion trips a year under a new...

1 Feb 2018 2:55 PM IST

The Union Budget 2018 announced an upward revision of salaries of the President, Vice-President and Governors. (Photo: PTI)

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Budget 2018: Salary raise for Prez, VP, guvs; know how much they'll...

The budget proposes salary hike of the President to Rs 5 lakh, vice-president to Rs 4 lakh and governors of states to Rs...

1 Feb 2018 2:42 PM IST

Experts said that the allocation of funds for school education should be proportionate to the requirement.

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Budget 2018: Education cess raised to 4 pc, no division in schools

Jaitley proposed to launch a scheme to revitalise research-based education with Rs 1 lakh crore in the next four years.

1 Feb 2018 2:40 PM IST

The railways has started the exercise of an internal audit through which 50 mail and express trains will be upgraded to super-fast services. (Photo: File/Representational)

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Budget for Railways: Bengaluru, Mumbai big gainers

Bengaluru will get a corpus of Rs 17,000 crore for the local rail network. Karnataka goes to polls this year.

1 Feb 2018 2:24 PM IST

$Arun Jaitley informed the Parliament \Transformative measures have to be undertaken to make Indian Railways competitive,$ India

Budget 2018: Railways gets Rs 1.48 L Cr for world-class trains

New world-class train sets, dedicated freight corridors are coming up and electrification is being taken up as a...

1 Feb 2018 2:13 PM IST

Health regulation has several pieces, of which self-regulation by the private sector is an important one. Private players in the health sector are indeed quite diverse.

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Union Budget 2018 unveils healthcare for 500 million of India's...

The government currently provides 30,000 rupees towards healthcare for poor families.

1 Feb 2018 2:11 PM IST