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Budget 2021: Ajay Piramal to Rajeev Talwar, BS Jury lauds Atmanirbhar push

The first Budget of this new decade reimagines India in the form of Aatmanirbhar Bharat like never before, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Enterprises said

FDCI chairman Sunil Sethi's take on the best and worst things in Budget

Various initiatives like the tax-efficient zero coupon bonds for notified infra debt funds and the introduction of a bill to set up a DFI for infra financing would help create jobs, Sethi says

Budget 2021: Road map for sustainable growth, says JM Financial's Kampani

The Budget kept away from mood dampeners such as an increase in taxes (capital gain taxes) and even the much-feared introduction of Covid cess and wealth taxes, writes Kampani

Union Budget with eye on the target, says Marico MD & CEO Saugata Gupta

The Budget for 2021-22 has taken a multi-pronged approach to incentivise consumption and investment opportunities

Nationalist, pro-growth Budget: Shree Cement joint MD Prashant Bangur

This Budget is very prudent on the revenue side, with no major change in the direct tax and goods and services tax structures, Bangur says

Full text of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget speech in LS

Here is the full text of the Budget speech of FM Sitharaman in Lok Sabha

Budget 2021: Full text of the memorandum of the Finance Bill tabled in LS

Here is the full text of the memorandum of the Finance Bill as tabled in Lok Sabha by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

DATA STORY: Kerala, Maharashtra alone account for 79% of all active Covid cases in India

With 14,509 vaccinations on Sunday, India has so far inoculated 3,758,843 people. That is 34.938 per cent of its total caseload, and 0.2708 per cent of its population

After RBI's paper on new regulatory framework, what next for NBFCs?

Over the last five years, their balance sheet more than doubled to Rs 49.22 trillion

Knee-jerk shutdowns

India has a dubious record of net disruptions

Fiscal activism

Govt should tread carefully on this path

DATA STORY: 97% of India's total Covid-19 caseload has now recovered

With 244,307 more vaccinations on Saturday, India has so far inoculated 3,744,334 people. That is 34.84 per cent of the country's total caseload, and 0.2698 per cent of its population

DATA STORY: At 3,500,027, India's total vaccination now at 32% of its caseload

India on Friday conducted 756,329 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 195,837,408. The test positivity rate recorded was 1.7%

Roads, health care consistent priority for govt: Economic Survey

Private participation remains low, the Survey shows

Echoes from the Mahabharata to a new index: A few nuggets from Eco Survey

Stringent lockdown at the very onset of the pandemic enabled flattening of the pandemic curve and provided necessary time to ramp up the health and testing infrastructure

Flashbacks: Here're some key facts about Union Budget that will amaze you

From 1955-56, Budget papers began to be printed in Hindi as well.

DATA STORY: With 572,060 vaccinations in a day, India's total now at 27% of caseload

At 18,855, daily spike in India's total Covid cases the highest since Jan 7, mainly because of a massive jump in recovered cases in Chhattisgarh

Beyond Budget Headlines: What the key elements of FM's speech mean to us

Given that the FM has already said that this will be extraordinary Budget, all eyes will be on how she allocates the resources to the most pressing needs of the present time

Make in America

Joe Biden's executive order raises concerns

'Dream Budget' to 'Millennium Budget': Here're India-specific snippets

Budget 1997-98 reduced corporate tax rates; and encouraged higher investment from FIIs