fiscal deficit
Finance
Budget 2019: Tighter FY20 fiscal deficit target challenging to achieve, says Moody's
India’s decision to slightly lower its fiscal deficit target for 2019/20 is a step in the right direction but will ......
Economy
India's fiscal deficit hits half of budgeted target in first two months of FY20
India's fiscal deficit in May stood at 3.66 trillion rupees ($53.04 billion), or 52% of the budgeted target for the ......
Finance
Budget 2019: Why India needs a more meaningful disinvestment strategy
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office for a second five-year term, the government’s policy think-tank Niti Aayog said ......
Economy
Budget 2019: Govt may let fiscal deficit rise as tax collections fall short
India's government is likely to overshoot the budget deficit target previously set for the current fiscal year, three officials have ......
Finance
What India Inc, taxpayers can expect from Nirmala Sitharaman's maiden budget
Last week, just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Nirmala Sitharaman as India’s new finance minister, a deluge of bad ......
Economy
Infra output up 2.6% in April; fiscal deficit at 22.3% of budgeted target
India's infrastructure output grew 2.6% in April from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday. Infrastructure output, which comprises eight ......
Economy
Govt meets FY19 fiscal deficit target as spending cuts offset lower tax collection
India has met the fiscal deficit target of 3.4 percent of gross domestic product in 2018/19 fiscal year ended March ......
Economy
India's April-February fiscal deficit at 134% of target for 2018-19
India's April-February fiscal deficit touched 8.51 trillion rupees ($123.07 billion), or 134.2 percent of the budgeted target for the current ......
Economy
Budget 2019: Highlights
Acting finance minister Piyush Goyal on Friday presented the interim budget for the fiscal year 2019-20, which begins in April. ......
Finance
Budget 2019: Modi govt unveils tax sops, farmer income scheme in re-election bid
By convention, it should have been an interim budget, a run-of-the-mill ‘vote-on-account’ less than three months before the country goes ......