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Budget provides positive approach towards agricultural sector: Experts

The income support of Rs 2,000 per hectare or Rs 6,000 per year to farmers with up to 2 hectares of land will be a game-changer

'Damp squib' to 'pakodanomics', how Opposition mocked Interim Budget 2019

Soon after Finance Minister Piyush Goyal's Interim Budget 2019 speech, political leaders from Opposition parties came down heavily with wide-ranging criticism. Here's a list of who said what

Interim Budget 2019: Goodies from the poll vault

Modi has delivered a masterstroke - it would be almost impossible for the Opposition to question any of the measures that BJP dished out in interim Budget 2019

Interim Budget 2019: Much-awaited push for realty, home sales may spike

In an effort to push the PM's housing-for-all, govt announces a whole set of tax reforms for the sector

Interim Budget 2019: Higher allocations for ROSL to boost textile sector

The textile and apparel industry is also set to gain from an overall farmer- and consumer-centric budget

Interim Budget mostly jumlebazi, doesn't address ground realities: Mayawati

She claimed that economic disparities had grown during the last five years with only a handful of capitalists benefiting, instead of farmers and the poor

Govt pegs FY 20 GST collections at Rs 7.61 trillion, misses FY19 target

Presenting the Interim Budget for 2019-20, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said in spite of major rate reductions and relaxations, revenue trends are encouraging

Insurance firms expect Interim Budget proposals to boost penetration

For the insurance industry, the schemes aimed at boosting farmers' income and reducing tax outgoes for the middle-class will encourage consumption, insurers said

Budget 2019: Govt allocates Rs 3,900 cr for SPV to service Air India's debt

The Air India Asset Holding Ltd, a special purpose vehicle, has been set up as part of financial restructuring of the debt-laden national carrier

Budget 2019: Monthly mobile data usage up by 50% in last 5 years, says FM

Video consumption drove most of the usage, increasing to 460 crore hours per month, said FM Piyush Goyal in Interim Budget 2019 speech

Interim Budget 2019: Likely consumption boost only takeaway for India Inc

It's an out-an-out pre-election budget, say corporate leaders, even as absence of adverse tax moves gives them great relief

Interim Budget 2019 is a 'Jumlaa Bullet Express': Chhattisgarh CM Baghel

Pans Modi govt for failing to fulfil poll promises it made in 2014, scoffs at plan to build 100,000 digital villages

Housing sops will not change things for sector in any way: Andrew Holland

Whilst on the face of it, it is a positive, it's too small an amount to move the needle too much, says Andrew Holland

Centre allocates Rs 61,398 crore for health sector in Interim Budget 2019

The Budgetsaw an allocation of Rs 6,400 crore for the Centre's Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY)

Nabard hails Interim Budget 2019, says farmers will benefit from proposals

The interest subvention of up to 5% for fisheries and animal husbandry will help farmers

Interim Budget 2019: Petroleum subsidy raised by 51% to Rs 37,478 crore

Finance Minister Piyush goyal said in his Budget speech that the country's fiscal deficit would overshoot the 2018-19 Budget estimate to stand at 3.4%

India Inc welcomes inclusion of Healthy India as part of Vision 2030

The interim budget threw light on the Government's dedication to a healthy India with a distress-free healthcare system, says Apollo Hospitals Group Joint MD Sangita Reddy

Centre allocates Rs 60,000 crore for MGNREGA in Interim Budget 2019

The amount allocated for 2019-20 is 11 per cent higher compared to Rs 55,000 crore allocated for the year 2018-19

Budget 2019 announcement of Rs 17 a day an 'insult' for farmers, says Rahul

Presenting the Interim Budget, Goyal sought to address some of the distress that the farm sector has been facing

Interim Budget 2019: Market borrowing pegged at Rs 4.48 trillion for FY20

For 2019-20, the government also retains the fiscal deficit at 3.4% of the gross domestic product