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Finance

05 July, 2019

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

28 June, 2019

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 ......

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Finance

26 June, 2019

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

21 June, 2019

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 ......

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Finance

04 June, 2019

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

31 May, 2019

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

09 April, 2019

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

29 March, 2019

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

01 February, 2019

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

01 February, 2019

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 ......