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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Budget Can Do Groundwork for Deep Reforms in India

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Budget Can Do Groundwork for Deep Reforms in India

Low tax base, rising social spend and debt pressures constrain Centre’s reform ambitions

16 Jan 2026 10:08 PM IST

Suman Sahai | Second Gene Bank May Establish India As a Global Leader in Biodiversity Sector

Suman Sahai | Second Gene Bank May Establish India As a Global Leader...

Most Gene Banks are refrigerated chambers where seeds can be stored and kept viable for long periods of time for use...

20 April 2025 11:35 PM IST

AA Edit | So what if it is a ‘kursi bachao’ Budget?

AA Edit | So what if it is a ‘kursi bachao’ Budget?

The criticism of the various sections of the Opposition, including Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul...

24 July 2024 10:20 PM IST

AA Edit | Bottom-up reforms to boost jobs

AA Edit | Bottom-up reforms to boost jobs

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has tabled the National Democratic Alliance 3.0 government’s first...

23 July 2024 1:26 AM IST

Indian Railways is not looking at more funds in the upcoming Union Budget for 2018-19 as it is focused on monetising assets within, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said. (Photo: PTI)

Railways not to seek more funds from Union Budget: Piyush Goyal

The Budget that Jaitley presented on February 1 this year broke the tradition since 1924 of having a separate railway...

19 Nov 2017 12:43 PM IST

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley (Photo: PTI)

115 backward' districts' uplift plan still awaits FinMin nod despite...

Sources said that an empowered panel headed by Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant had prepared the blueprint of the entire...

6 Nov 2017 1:01 AM IST

Finance Ministry

FinMin releases timeline for India's first post-GST budget proposals

The pre-budget meetings of ministries and departments will start from October 9.

14 Sept 2017 10:01 AM IST

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said the country faced two serious threats one in Jammu & Kashmir and second being problem of Left-Wing Extremism in central India. (Photo: PTI)

FinMin to start work on Union Budget 2018-19 next week

This Union Budget will be India's first post-GST Budget and will not be concerned with service and excise levies.

10 Sept 2017 11:03 AM IST

For FY 18, the fiscal deficit target was supposed to be 3 per cent but it may choose the upper band of 3.5 percent in the Union Budget.

Fiscal deficit at July-end touches 92.4 per cent of budget

During the same period of last financial year, 2016-17, it was 73.7 per cent of the target.

1 Sept 2017 10:00 AM IST

Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: No extension for Hasmukh Adhia?

The next bureaucrat in line to be designated the finance secretary is expenditure secretary Ajay Narayan Jha, a...

11 Nov 2018 12:21 AM IST

A professional tax is proposed to be levied on individuals, who have an annual income of Rs 5 lakh. This would generate Rs 5 crore, the budget document read.

Expand gender budget, it's time to end neglect

Higher Budget allocations could be used to grab media headlines, but it's the utilisation that matters.

31 Jan 2018 1:26 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addresses a Post-Budget press conference in New Delhi on Wendnesday. (Photo: PTI)

Economic Survey upbeat, predicts 7.5 per cent growth

India will be reinstated as fastest growing major economy in 2018-19.

30 Jan 2018 4:52 AM IST