The Rangarajan panel says anyone spending up to Rs 47 a day in urban areas...
States also demanded that Budget for 2015-16 should make adequate provisions...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to discuss key issues with state finance...
The United Nations estimates about one third of the world's 1.2 billion...
The Datsun Go+ is an extended Datsun Go with a third row of seats
A plunge of nearly half in oil prices could help Indian Finance Minister...
Any revision in gold import duty is unlikely to take place before the...
The government on Tuesday raised excise duty on petrol by Rs 2.25 per litre...
All is not well with Telengana and its Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao
Flipkart crashing when sale of Xiaomi's Mi3 opened proves the phone has...
Bluechips underperform in recent rally.
FMCG and healthcare firms are keen to push online sales.
The airline operates nearly 950 weekly flights on 28 destinations within and...
The price stabilisation fund will call for processing capacity for perishables.
The shares could continue to see outperformance if the Budget assumptions...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced no new taxes in the Delhi Budget.
The Reserve Bank has paved the path for increasing the liquidity for banks,...
There are some 20-odd schemes with this default provision, or something...
Arun Jaitley's maiden effort is a welcome and purposeful change in direction...
To facilitate foreign direct investment (FDI) in high- speed rail projects,...
In a live chat on rediff.com on Wednesday, July 16, 4 pm, Feroze Azeez, will...
Attacking the government for a provision of a mere Rs 500 (Rs 5 billion).
However, the budget lacked very specific measures detailing how this will be...
With Jaitley preferring continuity over change, good days might take a...
Businessmen love low import duties on their inputs and high duties on their...
Despite largely being ignored by market participants, these are worth...
Significantly, about half of the CEOs who took part in the survey indicated...
In a live chat on rediff.com on Wednesday, July 16, 4 pm, Feroze Azeez, will...
A barrier-free market -- coupled with removal of controls, licensing system,...
Eminent business journalist and author Tamal Bandyopadhyay discussed Budget...
In a live chat on rediff.com on Wednesday, July 16, 4 pm, Feroze Azeez, will...
The idea is to boost household savings and turn more of them into growth...
An analysis of the frequency of various watchwords in the finance minister's...
The HTC Desire 516 sports a 5-inch LCD 540 x 960 pixels multi-touch display...
Portfolio investors based out of the US and other countries with which India...
Here are 15 companies that research houses believe could see significant...
Eminent business journalist and author Tamal Bandyopadhyay will discuss...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his maiden budget last week in which...
The agency said through the Budget, the new government has made a commitment...
The Budget doesn't do any obvious harm and it might encourage a revival in...
The Budget has proposed increasing the income tax exemption limit to Rs...
It is unfair to expect Mr Jaitley to perform miracles with the Centre's...
In his maiden Budget presented in Parliament on July 10, Finance Minister...
All these measures will revitalise the manufacturing sector, which has been...
US budget deficit to come down to $583 billion in 2014
kers likely to pass on additional excise duty burden to consumers; price...
Union Budget 2014-15 is positive for metals and mining companies.
The funny thing is that the government has the money - but it is going into...
There are no major announcements in the Union Budget 2014-15.
That "Rollback Budget" ushered in an era of rollback.
Far from reducing inflation, some of the assumptions made in the Budget...
Budget continues to remain a non-event for the healthcare sector
Excise duties on mobile phones to be 1% without CENVAT credit or 6% with...
Nearly half the households in villages had a television, but only less than...
A look at how people from different walks of life analyse the Budget.
The government has extended excise duty concessions beyond 30th June 2014...
Lowering excise duty on petrol, diesel, and other fuels, branded fuels.
An exercise to rationalise coal linkages which will optimize transport of...
Showing signs of recovery, industrial production grew at 4.7 per cent in...
Increase in tax exemption limit by Rs 50000 is positive for the FMCG sector,...
A sum of Rs 7060 crore is provided in the current fiscal for the project of...
Education remains one of the key focuses of the new government.
The duty reduction in feedstock would strengthen the domestic manufacturing...
Jaitley's fiscal arithmetic, Crisil said, is "shaky", and the scope for...
Tax incentives to have cascading effect on the capital goods industry.
The first voice by the new government clearly indicates growth and fiscal...
However, the budget arithmetic is slightly optimistic.
This law will further promote inclusive economic growth targeting a larger...
The IS curve is a measure of the sensitivity between GDP and prevailing...
Print media will not benefit from the Budget.
20 new industrial clusters will be developed in 2014-15.
Shipping: Policy to increase India flagged tonnage soon
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which promised us "maximum governance, minimum...
There is logic at work in most of what has been announced by Arun Jaitlley.
Income from renting of properties is taxed at a flat rate of 10%.
Higher disposable incomes, rural push and infra push to boost auto sector
In a live chat on rediff.com held on Friday, July 11, well-known equity...
Based on the announcements made in the Budget, here are the changes you will...
Finance minister tries to put house in order before reforms are unveiled in...
Abheek Barua analyses varied nuances of the Union Budget.
In the run up to the elections Narendra Modi kept telling us achche din aane...
MNREGA is a poverty-continuation scheme and is destructive to Indian...
The Hinduja brothers, who top Britain's rich list, said in a statement that...
Omar welcomed the announcement of setting up of an IIT in Jammu and...
The allocation was part of the budget 2014-15 presented by Finance Minister...
The government has stuck to its ambitious fiscal deficit targets and has...
Welcomes measures include a road map for fiscal consolidation of 3% of GDP...
The Budget has evoked mixed reactions from Silicon Valley investors.
However, sometimes projects are included in the Budget pending government...
They said Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has opened the door to a much...
India needs significantly more domestic wherewithal to achieve and sustain...
Banks to be permitted to raise long-term funds for lending to infrastructure...
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan had set up a committee to review the monetary...
It is not only toll collection that is expected to boost government revenue,...
The target announced is 13.6 per cent higher than that set last year and...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley talks to T N Ninan.
What has been the impact of this Budget on your daily life?
Though not a blockbuster budget it does not undermine the fact that key...
The government on Thursday unveiled steps including Rs 38,000 crore...
Investment in Public Provident Fund up to Rs 150,000 would now be exempt...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday doled out income tax sops by...
The captains of Indian industry described Narendra Modi government's maiden...
The total height of the statue from its base is planned to be 240 metre...
Despite its sincere tone in describing the gravity of the economic...
Without tinkering with the tax rates, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his...
The industry's reactions to the Budget have been mixed.
For the modernisation of the armed forces, the Finance Minister allocated an...
Budgetary support of Rs 10,00,000 each was provided to Hotel Corporation...
There were a lot of expectations from Narendra Modi government's maiden...
The Finance Minister's concerns come at a time when delays in 110 central...
The deputy leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, Capt Amrinder Singh, said the...
BJP on Thursday said while claiming the exercise had brought back "hope"...
Describing the general Budget as a 'sanjeevani' (new life) to the "moribund...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced in his maiden Budget Speech that...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his first Budget on Thursday.
The partially convertible rupee closed at 60.19/20 per dollar versus its...
Investors booked profits at higher levels despite the growth oriented Budget.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Budget in the Parliament on...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Budget in the Parliament on...
Budget 2014 is a strong first step to slowly re-architecting and reviving...
Graphic description of the Budget's allotment.
The government has also proposed to set up a Mission on Low Cost Affordable...
At present, workers whose basic wage at the time of joining is up to Rs...
With the government putting strong emphasis on job creation, experts on...
For every rupee in government kitty, as much as one-fourth will come from...
FM earmarks Rs 7,060 crore for the project.
The Union Budget 2014-15 has proposed to set up new IITs and IIMs
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget for 2014-15 on...
The government on Thursday announced a new 24-hour TV channel dedicated to...
The FDI in insurance and defence and the plethora of schemes for improving...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced an allocation of Rs 200 crore...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Budget in the Parliament on...
Amendment to the Income Tax Act with retrospective effect, undertaken by the...
A large part of this fund would be raised through public offers made to...
Finance Minister presented the Budget in Parliament on Thursday.
The Economic Survey has acknowledged the measures taken by the UPA...
In a live chat on rediff.com to be held on Friday, July 11 at 4 pm,...
These are valuable suggestions and one hopes the Budget will make a start on...
Will Jaitley live up to his election promises, will he announce tax sops? To...
Monetary Policy- Easing expected to happen later this financial year.
The government should frame new policies to assure growth.
When Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents the Budget in a short while,...
Additional infrastructure for dining rooms in each of the school has been...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's promises of bold Budget decisions and...
Taking cues from the current issues, Amul ads present thought provoking ads.
As many as 65 per cent of respondents have positive expectations from the...
Diesel price should be freed, open market grain purchases should be ended.
Economists believe government might settle for a higher fiscal deficit...
The Commerce and Industry Ministry has circulated a draft Cabinet note for...
It will also provide support to the government for finalising the financial...
To slight complicate things, and add a bit of fund, we made up a few questions.
There are high hopes that the Budget for 2014-15 to be presented in...
The IT sector is confronted with a host of issues.
Expectations are that the government will use the Union Budget to create an...
India's share in world tourist inflows was only 0.64 per cent in 2012. It...
After tabling the Survey, Jaitley told reporters that fiscal deficit for the...
The current debt market scenario is balanced from rates perspective.
To generate ample private sector interest, there is a need to introduce...
A high CAD puts pressure on the rupee, which in turn makes imports expensive...
'We expect the new government to look into the issue of penalties imposed on...
Amid all these changes which included replacement of the steam engines with...
During 2013-14, imports from Japan, South Korea and Malaysia stood at $9.49...
It is a Budget 'high on promises but low on design,' the agency said.
Finance Minister Arun Jailtey's time table on Budget day.
Oil explorer ONGC again emerged as the highest profit-making PSU of the...
Railway minister Sadanand Gowda in his Railway Budget speech on Tuesday...
Homegrown auto major Mahindra & Mahindra is recalling around 23,000 units...
The bad loans of public sector banks were at 4.4 per cent in March 2014...
The overseas market has developed into a significant competitor for India's...
Here's a map that visualises the official numbers for percentage of...
It all depends on many kilometres would you clock in a month.
There are few concerns in India's growth story.
As per the survey, the trade sector that comprises wholesale and retail grew...
However, risks to the outlook stems from possible sub-normal monsoon and...
The GDP growth for 2014-15 is pegged at 5.4 to 5.9 per cent: Economic Survey
India needs to revive corporate sector investment, push critical reforms and...
In the Financial year 2013-14 there were encouraging signs on the foreign...
The Economic Survey says, massive efforts are needed in the form of...
India is ranked 12th in terms of services GDP among the world's top 15...
Through this Budget, the Obama Administration, policy makers, corporate...
Pre-Budget Economic Survey tabled in Parliament.
The Railway Budget has impressed industry watchers.
In other words, its revenue numbers are likely to carry greater conviction...
The government will have to enhance economic activities if it wants to...
Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda tells Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa that FDI...
Nasscom wants the Union govt to create a mission with initial seed capital...
Encouraging domestic financial savings through focused measures would help...
Use the opportunity to increase equity exposure because these are short-term...
Encouraging domestic financial savings through focused measures would help...
Chhattisgarh, Manipur, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam...
Ahead of the Economic Survey, industry body Ficci today lowered its GDP...
We have requested the commerce department to delete the line that FDI was...
India will probably unveil bold reforms in its budget on Thursday in a bid...
Union Minister for Railways D V Sadananda Gowda in his maiden Budget...
The Indian Railways proposes to introduce 58 new trains which includes...
The maiden Railway Budget of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government seems to...
Scouting for resources to meet its fund crunch, Railways is open to the idea...
The Railways could tie up with technical institutions for introducing...
The Railway Minister proposed numerous steps to enhance passengers' safety.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi applauds Railway Ministry for announcing a...
Most of the railway-related stocks, which had seen smart gains in the past...
You will see purified drinking water, focus on cleanliness, and ticketing...
Presenting the Narendra Modi government's maiden Rail Budget, Railway...
The Railway Budget is progressive and wil ensure growth.
Biju Janata Dal termed the Budget, which was presented in Parliament by Rail...
Former Railway Ministers were not on the same track as incumbent Sadananda...
The government has assured Rs 30,000 crore (Rs 300 billion)budgetary support...
Finance Ministry is considering to sell 5 per cent stake in ONGC in the...
Amid railways eyeing higher revenue from travellers in air conditioned...
The Railway Minister has announced that there is an urgency to attract FDI...
The Indian Railways will develop few stations which will be at par with...
India will soon get a Bullet train between Mumbai-Ahmedabad!
The Railway Budget on Tuesday proposed a major revamp of the passenger...
Travellers can now get read-to-eat-meals on board a train.
Railway Minister Sadanand Gowda presented the Railway Budget for 2014-15 on...
Rock your way through steep bridges, dark tunnels and spiralling mountains.
The first Railway Budget of this Bharatiya Janata Party-led National...
The finance minister must reverse the government's turn to statism, and lay...
In today's perspective, such deprivation and insult has anyone seen"? the...
Private participation in the pilgrim sector will also be encouraged, Railway...
There has been a great debate on whether it is profitable for India to have...
The estimated market borrowing by these two companies during current fiscal...
The Planning Commission of India has released the official Gross State...
Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda presented the Railway Budget in the...
Mumbai locals will get a swanky look with state-of-the art coaches.
Union Budget 2014 hinges on reforms and restarting projects.
The railways recently successfully completed an experiment on the Delhi-Agra...
Though India has been one of the best-performing markets in the last two...
Of all the Budgets presented over the years, Chidambaram under the...
Foreign brokerage Goldman Sachs on Monday said it expects new Finance...
Government needs tight control over both expenditure and populism.
The Income-Tax department will soon start updating taxpayers about the...
There will be provision for a few new trains including premium and services...
Sectors throw up a wishlist for the Finance Minister.
Stocks like L & T, DLF and ITC are likely to offer good returns in medium term.
A sluggish economy and stalled bureaucratic decision-making for the past two...
According to FADA, automobile retail trade and service industry comprises a...
FM targets to collect Rs 70,00 crore from their sale.
The DTH industry has to pay entertainment tax to state governments and...
Oil and gas players' wish list includes incentivising E & P investments and...
As things stand today, there would be extraordinary pressure on the...
Currently, the spend on R & D as a percentage of GDP is just 0.9%
Tax reforms, GST rollout, public sector divestments top India Inc agenda;...
Barclays said Indian equities have had a strong first half.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley may not raise I-T exemption limit to Rs 500,000.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is unlikely to heed economists' suggestion...
The finance ministry has approached different ministries to increase the...
The forthcoming budget is an excellent opportunity for the Government to...
The lifeline of the nation, the Indian Railways started its service 161...
The tyre industry has urged the Central Government for recast of India's...
Which one should you buy?
The opposition has a whole host of issues to target the government.
The govt rode to power on promises of providing relief to inflation-hit...
Hussain said the new government had inherited an "empty treasury" while the...
Central pool of onions to be set up; offences under Essential Commodities...
All eyes are on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as he prepares to present his...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is unlikely to heed economists' suggestion...
Railways Minister Sadananda Gowda will present his maiden Rail Budget on...
These will help to keep competition in check.
Railways Minister Sadananda Gowda will present his maiden Rail Budget on...
The minister asked the state governments to assess the problem as action...
The premium trains will be the focus area as the project has been the...
The Reserve Bank on Thursday relaxed norms for overseas investment by Indian...
Awesome four wheels that are available at your nearest showroom.
Taxpayers filing their I-T returns this year will now have to share their...
Come November and you can travel to Agra, the city of Taj Mahal, by train in...
Corporate India has high hopes from the upcoming Budget.
The price of non-subsidised LPG, which customers buy after using up their...
The day-long conference will be chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitely and...
The comments came after Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley warned of tough...
The train will traverse through seven tunnels and over 30 small and large...
As part of the housekeeping scheme, there will be attendants in each coach...
47 million young Indians, under the age of 24, are jobless, and looking for...
Pharma firms wants new policies that will boost investment.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley may not raise I-T exemption limit to Rs 500,000.
Doctors from both government and private sectors on Wednesday appealed to...
Riding high on improved market sentiment, especially after the Narendra Modi...
Cracking down further on hoarding, the Centre on Wednesday put onion and...
The government on Wednesday put on hold a hike in LPG prices in states...
Common people dishes out a wishlist for the finance minister.
Disposable linen in Rajdhani trains, automatic closing doors in Shatabdi and...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is keen to come out with reforms that can help...
With July 31 being the last day for filing income-tax returns, tax assesses...
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the future of the Unique Identity (UID)...
The sector faces many challenges and calls for prompt corrective action.
Mercedes-Benz has launched the 2014 edition of its luxury sedan CLS 350 in...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government would take bold decisions...
The Finance Minister must deliver a business sentiment boosting budget and...
Manwani said HUL was using technology across the value chain from...
The Railways is all set to hold a trial run on July 3 of a train that can...
The Japanese car maker, however, has quite a distance to cover before...
A wider fiscal deficit despite higher divestment will be a disappointing...
Barclays said Indian equities have had a strong first half.
Modi stunned buttoned-down members of the commission last year by turning up...
History has shown that cyclical stocks (capital goods, metals, banking,...
Here's why India's tax collection has not been able to keep pace with the...
Finance ministers play a key role in shaping the country's economy.
The original DTC draft was put in the public domain in 2009 but revised the...
There have been demands from bankers and insurers to hike the tax exemption...
Coming to the oil situation, the developments in Iraq are worrying because...
It is not just about archaic limits, there are a number holes which, if...
The fiscal situation is in a mess, with widespread suspicion that the...
For the NDA government, it was just like the case of the railway fare and...
It can go from 0 to 100 in mere 4 seconds.
The record of the new government would be spotless but for the increase in...
In shortfall years, index's returns have been higher than the 10-year average.
It is odd how governments don't learn from their predecessors' mistakes,...
The union government is expected to cut two per cent import duty in gold in...
The new government may enhance the Plan expenditure for 2014-15 by around...
With a view to reducing its dependence on conventional sources of energy,...
The stock market will most likely see bullish trends this week in the run up...
The dust over the controversy around foreign direct investment (FDI) in the...
The Union finance ministry is planning to make rules regarding wilful...
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan's recent request to Finance Minister Arun...
In putting the country's economy back on the rails, it is best that Narendra...
In their pre-budget expectations, they also asked the government to assess...
Santosh Kamath, partner (infrastructure and government services), KPMG in...
Power Minister Piyush Goyal is keen to revive the energy sector.
Arvind Panagariya explains why his suggestion of the fiscal deficit at 4.5%...
The cars that every man dreams of.
In only two of the past 12 occasions has the BSE S & P Sensex recorded a...
Cutting to the chase, the Indian economy will not budge until investors...
Uniform NPA classification proposed; Kingfisher, Winsome Diamonds among top...
Consumer Electronics and Appliances Manufacturers Association Consumer has...
Universal health scheme on the cards; Spend on the sector likely to be raised.
The key numbers in Mr Jaitley's Budget will be looked at closely to assess...
India's power sector faces annual losses of $27 billion by 2017 unless...
India Inc has high hopes from the upcoming Budget.
The Bharatiya Janata Party believes its point of view hasn't reached the...
Maharashtra is going to polls later this year and the leaders of BJP-Shiv...
The auto industry body has been lobbying hard with the government for...
This Budget will set a direction to increase the ease of doing business and...
Budget may allow use of advance-pricing agreements for past cases.
The IT and ITeS sectors expect a reduction in minimum alternate tax (MAT)...
Railway Budget will be presented on July 8.
Jaitley is widely expected to come out with reforms on subsidy front
Packages for this season are 30-40% cheaper than peak season and are for...
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is set to present the Budget next month....
The Railway Budget is likely to be presented in the second week of July.
The finance minister has the difficult job of responding to this spirit of...
With a sub-normal monsoon looming, the government is worried about...
The government on Tuesday announced a host of measures to tame inflation,...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents his maiden budget next month and...
Gold purchases have risen after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the...
The Budget session of the 16th Lok Sabha will begin in the second week of...
As citizens who voted the BJP to power, here's an opportunity to share your...
The Indian government allowed foreign airlines to buy up to 49 per cent...
Developers have demanded lower borrowing cost for the housing sector as well...
In a pre-budget meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the experts...
The finance minister could review customs duty on crude oil, other exemptions.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will kick off pre-budget consultations with...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is expected to present the Budget for 2014-15...
On the reduction in the SLR ratio, he said it was a signal from the point of...
The Budget, will be a mega-signalling device in terms of policy, as well as...
Here's why India's tax collection has not been able to keep pace with the...
He noted that the Rupee has firmed recently but cautioned that the currency...
The minister customarily meets industry chambers, industrialists,...
Typically, airlines offer discounts to companies committing a fixed business...