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Interim Budget 2019: India doesn't need bold steps; avoid populist spending

All prime ministers before him have respected the tradition of treating the last budget before elections as just a way to keep the government going for a few months. Modi should too

Interim Budget 2019: Why BofA-ML expert expects fiscal surprise for markets

The concerns about the health of India's finances have coincided with a rebound in prices of oil -- India's top import -- and below-average revenue from goods and services tax and asset sales

Interim Budget 2019: Focus must be on skilled labour to tackle unemployment

Unless skill development programmes receive impetus, the numbers of the unemployable will only rise

Interim Budget 2019: Why outgoing govts don't present full-fledged Budgets

Here's why an outgoing government needs to present an interim Budget at all, and the precedents that the finance minister can go by while doing so later this week

Interim Budget 2019: Follow the convention

Govt should stick to fiscal propriety in Budget

Interim Budget 2019: NDA got more taxes from individuals than UPA

Share of tax revenues in GDP is set to cross the 12 per cent mark in 2018-19, a rise of almost two percentage points.

Interim Budget 2019: What govt needs to do to boost higher education bodies

India's expenditure on higher education as a percentage of its total budget has remained largely stagnant, hovering around an average 1.47% over 12 years to 2018-19

Interim Budget 2019: Modi may counter Rahul with universal basic income

A rapid expansion of direct cash transfers linked to the national biometric database and small basic income experiments has galvanised an extensive debate on a UBI

Interim Budget 2019: What's in store for investors, taxpayers, economy?

From doling out sops for the farm sector and providing some relief to the individual income-tax payers, here's what leading brokerages expect from the budget

Interim Budget options for Mr Jaitley

Of the three past Interim Budgets, only one of them, presented by Mr Mukherjee, completely refrained from announcing new taxation proposals

Govt's intent to present 'regular budget' serious, grave: Congress

Tewari said the NDA-BJP government does not have the electoral mandate and it does not have the electoral legitimacy to present six full budgets in five years

Interim Budget 2019 to be dedicated to farmers: Agri Min Radha Mohan Singh

He said the government's decision to boost investment in agriculture had brought transformation in the sector and the upcoming Budget will be dedicated to farmers

Jaitley flies to US for medical check-up, to be back before Budget on Feb 1

India needs strong leadership, not coalition, writes FM in a blog

Centre's divestment target for FY20 to likely be around Rs 80,000 crore

The much-anticipated sale of Air India, and its subsidiaries, in this fiscal did not attract a single bid

Farm schemes to push state fiscal deficits to 3.2% of GDP in FY'20: Ind-Ra

In the current financial year, states are expected to witness a fiscal slippage of 0.2 percentage points to 2.8% of GDP in 2018-19

Interim Budget 2019: Rs 5,000 cr more may be allotted for MGNREGA

With almost 70 days remaining for the 2018-19 financial year to end, the actual expenditure under the Centre's flagship scheme may exceed the budget estimates

News digest: Goyal back as interim FM, Congress' Priyanka card, and more

From PSBs putting putting RS 1-trn bad loans on sale to decline of two-wheeler sales, BS brings you up to date with the latest news

Reform defence budgeting

Both allocations as well as expenditure flows need attention

FM Jaitley likely to return on Jan 25; Budget on schedule: Govt officials

Jaitley went on leave at a time when Budget preparations are at their business end

Top 10 business headlines: Budget 2019, RIL results, farm income, and more

Here are the top 10 business stories that made news on Thursday