Budget 2018 19
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Narendra Modi to meet economists, sectoral experts on 22 June to deliberate on economic policy roadmap
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with leading economists and experts on Saturday to deliberate on economic policy roadmap for promoting growth and employment generation
Budget 2018 has taken steps in the right direction to increase penetration of insurance in India
The government-insurance partnership will drive the crop and health insurance schemes announced.
UK-India Business Council perspective of Budget 2018: Nothing to fear, nothing to cheer
The ease of doing business efforts will continue apace because Modi and Jaitley are pragmatic.
Budget 2018: Urgent need for research, regulation and innovation in health insurance
About 80 percent of India’s citizens have no health insurance cover as a result and our country’s health spend is just around 4 percent of GDP,
Budget and Beyond: Urban middle class should be educated to understand farmers need to be paid more, says Chidambaram
Chidambaram says the urban middle class should be educated to understand that farmers need to be paid more.
Budget 2018: Taxes will go up due to increase in health and education cess
The Budget expectations on indirect tax front were already low-spirited, given the little room to tweak indirect taxes.
Budget 2018 has given a shot in the arm for Narendra Modi's Make in India program
The indirect tax proposals made during the 2018 Budget are largely focused on incentivising ‘Make in India’ by making imports comparatively disadvantageous
Budget 2018: Many concerns of corporate India remain unanswered
corporate India had made various proposals which would give a boost to their business from a tax perspective
Rift between TDP and BJP widens: Chandrababu Naidu tells party MPs to keep up protest against Centre over Budget allocation
Chandrababu Naidu called an emergency meeting with TDP MPs and said that "the Centre was behaving in such a way that it was making people of Andhra Pradesh feel that they were not part of the nation
Andhra Pradesh MPs continue protest in Lok Sabha over budget allocation, Arun Jaitley promises special package
Arun Jaitley said that centre was sympathetically working on issues concerning Andhra Pradesh and a decision on a special package would be finalised soon
Budget 2018: Arun Jaitley has given only marginal relief on personal tax front to common man
Arun Jaitley had a little room to fulfill the widespread expectations of the common man from the Budget on the personal taxation front.
As Budget 2018 throws a curve ball at the market, it might lose recent swagger and turn practical
Where the Budget has been a drag is the slip in fiscal deficit, the tax on long-term gain and the raising of import duties on a slew of products.
Cracks in TDP-BJP alliance deepen after Budget 2018: Chandrababu Naidu calls party meet over ties
Disappointed with BJP over the lack of allocation of funds to Andhra Pradesh in the Union Budget 2018-19, TDP has called for an emergency meeting on Sunday.
Budget 2018: India Inc terms Arun Jaitley's proposals as 'populist, election-oriented'
India Inc has said the finance minister's initiatives will give a further fillip to growth, especially in the hinterland.
Budget 2018-19 shows BJP-led govt was alarmed by Gujarat poll results: Shiv Sena
The focus on the rural sector in Budget 2018-19 was a clear indication that the BJP-led government was alarmed by the Gujarat poll result, said Shiv Sena.
Union Budget 2018: What Finance Minister Arun Jaitley got right and what he missed in his speech
The Budget has come in as a big disappointment for the common man who had pinned high hopes on it
Budget 2018: Health, education, sanitation allocation appears to be most in 3 years but it isn’t
While funding for health, education and sanitation programmes in Budget 2018-19 appears to be the highest over the last three years–a 13 percent rise from the previous year–the money set aside has declined from actual allocations of 2017-18, according to a FactChecker analysis of Budget data.
Arun Jaitley says introduction of LTCG tax was a tough call, defends decision to keep personal income tax rate unchanged
In an interview with DD News post the Budget, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that Indian economy will do well with or without government
Budget 2018: A boost to farm sector but Arun Jaitley has only partly addressed the mess
The Budget for FY19 definitely does not smell like a pre-election policy document and instead reveals a commitment to being on the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) track.