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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New Delhi: The Economic Survey on Friday pinned its hope on uptick in growth of cumulative GST collections in October 2019 and November-December to contain fiscal deficit at the budgeted 3.3 …
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New Delhi :Just eight months into the second term, it is not good news for the Modi government on the economic and inflation front, with the IANS-CVoter Budget Tracker findings …
Alarm bells for Modi govt as quality of life, inflation, income indicators worsen Read More
New Delhi: The bad run for the Indian economy continues with the latest victim being the government’s direct tax kitty, where collections have now entered the negative zone for the very …
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