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PM Modi's July 5 budget key to reviving India's animal spirits

Analysts expect the new Modi government's first budget on July 5 to tweak fiscal levers to give a boost to the economy and get it back on a faster growth track

Auto firms have neither any wish-list, nor any suggestion for Budget 2019

The auto companies do not wish to 'waste time watching the Budget'

Amid Opposition protests, Budget passed in Lok Sabha without discussion

With the passage of the Finance Bill and the Appropriation Bill, the budget exercise is complete in the lower house

Interim Budget 2019: Those in lower income tax brackets to benefit more

The finance minister has proposed a rebate for those who have a taxable income of up to Rs 5 lakh

Greater slippage likely to raise questions over fiscal arithmetic for FY20

The interim Budget pegs collections from CGST for the full year at Rs 5.04 trillion

Relaxed taxes on ready inventory may not help realty sector: Analysts

CRISIL Research believes that though the number of unsold inventory remains moderate to high in the metros, the share of ready-to-move properties is small

Focus on bond market after Interim Budget shows ballooning govt borrowing

The gross borrowings number also looks optically high because redemptions this year are also close to a trillion rupees higher than last year

Fiscal deficit to revenue target: Crunching the Budget numbers

With GST revenues coming well below expectations, the Centre failed to meet its budgeted fiscal deficit target yet again

The burden of subsidies

The trend rate of expenditure on subsidies in April-Nov 2018 indicates a higher spend than indicated in the revised estimates for 2018-19

RBI may change stance; rate cut unlikely

If data supports, we could see a rate cut next financial year but that may not signal the beginning of a new cycle

An 'unconventional' interim Budget

Was Friday's Budget an act of constitutional impropriety, as the government's opponents have proclaimed, or was it justified, as its ministers insist?

Interim Budget reduces RBI rate cut possibility in February, say economists

High expenditure, fiscal deficit slippage point to inflationary tendencies

Why PM Modi seems to have given up on hopes of transforming India

Modi's promise of a new political economy, one oriented around the private sector, productivity and growth was illusory

Key aspect of job data is quality of employment: Krishnamurthy Subramanian

Do remember that GST collections are higher towards the end of the year

Navy and Air Force modernise, Army remains mired in high personnel costs

Budget allocations barely diverge from a simple formula: Give the army 60 per cent, the air force 24 per cent and the remaining 16 per cent to the navy

'Interim Budget populist; elections remain biggest near-term trigger'

The Interim Budget is a typical election budget but it also shows continuation in the endeavor of the government to improve the income level of lower sections of population, Aggarwal says.

Interim Budget falls short on a key promise made by Modi; creating jobs

With more than 90% of the labor force employed in the informal economy, the government has struggled to produce reliable data to get an accurate read on the level of joblessness in India

Cash for farmers, tax relief to boost growth, but at fiscal cost: Moody's

Ongoing fiscal slippage from spending and tax cut proposals ahead of the election is credit negative for the sovereign, Moody's said

Infrastructure woes

Redistributive schemes take their toll on allocation

No support for govt employees, taxpayers under PM-KISAN scheme for farmers

Announced in the Interim Budget, the scheme is supposed to provide an additional Rs 6,000 per annum income support to small and marginal farmers