"I think it is all in all very encouraging budget and the government has managed with the spend of eleven lakh crores still to contain both the fiscal deficit and the revenue deficit. Because these are critical for India's rating globally and for the cost of funding for indian industry and f
"...Overall, that is how I would assess it - judicious on the fiscal front, non-populace because it is more of the same and visionary because many other steps on innovation and CapEx etc." said KV Subramanian - Executive Director of the IMF and former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government
"The government of India established 3000 new ITIs. A large number of new institutions of higher learning, namely 7 IITs, 16 IIITs, 7 IIMs, 15 AIIMS and 390 universities, have been set up." added the Finance Minister.
Empowerment of women through entrepreneurship, ease of living, and dignity for them has gained momentum in ten years of the Modi government, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday and noted that 83 lakh SHGs with nine crore women are transforming the rural socio-economic lan
As expected and in relief for the citizens, the central government neither tweaked nor put any additional tax burden on citizens, in the interim Budget for 2024-25 tabled by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
"The immediate reaction would be the consolidation of the fiscal deficit. Our recommendation initially was a 5.4% fiscal deficit, but it's now 5.1%, which is a very significant step forward, but at the same time, does not sacrifice the focus on growth. So the capex spend has increased by
The Indian economy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has witnessed a profound transformation in the last 10 years when the government took several pro-people reforms that were structural, said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, as she rose to present the interim Budget for 2024-25.
The Budget session of Parliament will commence with the address of President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday and subject to the exigencies of government business, the session may conclude on February 9, 2024.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur slammed the Congress party for declining the invitation to attend the 'Pran Pratishtha' ceremony of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya, scheduled later this month and said that people too will "reject" them in the upcoming elections.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said that the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023, will help get rid of the colonial mindset and criminality.
Amid huge uproar over the parliament attack on Wednesday, CPI MP Binoy Viswam alleged that the Bhartiya Janata party has a hand in the whole incident involving two intruders who jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the visitors' gallery and sprayed smoke in a major security breach during t