New Delhi: The fiscal deficit for the current fiscal will be 3.8%, up from the earlier estimated 3.3%, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. “The issue of fiscal deficit has …
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New Delhi: As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget for financial year 2020-21 on Saturday, the domestic equity markets responded in a subdued manner with the BSE Sensex trading …
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New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the work on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious 508-km Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed train project will be actively pursued and also …
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New Delhi: With major emphasis on transportation and the required infrastructure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday made several announcements with an allocation of Rs 1.7 lakh crore for transport infrastructure. …
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New Delhi: In a major rural push, the government has allocated a massive Rs 2.83 lakh crore for agriculture and allied sectors, as sought by the BJP in its pre-Budget meet …
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New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday that the Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country has increased to $284 billion during 2014-19 from $190 billion in previous five …
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New Delhi: During the Budget 2020 presentation in Parliament on Saturday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman quoted renowned Kashmiri poet Pandit Dinanath Kaul Nadim, a Sahitya Academy Award winner. Reciting the verse …
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New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Central government’s debt reduced to 48.7% of GDP in 2019 from 52.2% and has clocked a GDP growth of 7.4% over 2014-19 & FDI …
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New Delhi: Emphasising on doubling the farm income of farmers across the country by 2022, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her 2020-21 Budget speech said that the government has provided …
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New Delhi: India should focus on export boosting services during bilateral trade negotiations to mitigate deficit with trading partners, the Economic Survey 2019-20 said on Friday. The survey was tabled in …
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