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Budget 2018 allocates Rs 89.6 bn to Dept of Space for satellite launches

Centre seeks to attain self-sufficiency in launch vehicles, for disaster control, mapping natural resources

Modicare to cost Rs 100 bn, states may baulk at new health insurance scheme

The NITI Aayog estimated that the new health insurance scheme would cost around Rs 60 billion in the first year

LTCG tax: Higher taxes spark panic among foreign portfolio investors

Most foreign funds are peeved over the reintroduction of the tax without the abolition of the securities transactional tax

Budget 2018: Modi govt uses Finance Bill to extract spending room till 2024

Changes in FRBM Act, through Finance Bill, will also ensure govt does not have to report revenue deficit

Black Friday for D-Street: Worst post-Budget market performance since 2009

Sensex, Nifty post biggest fall since Nov 2016

It is not protectionism of kind other countries are doing: Hasmukh Adhia

When you give more MSP to farmers, the middlemen's share comes down but the final price remains the same: Hasmukh Adhia

Budget 2018: LTCG impact on markets is for short term, says Subhash Garg

"We are right now at about 47% debt-GDP. Bringing it down to 40 per cent requires many years," says Garg

Budget 2018 impact: Steel sector to see a marginal increase in fuel cost

India imports nearly 85 per cent of its annual coking coal requirement of about 57 million tonnes

Murmurs of discontent among NDA allies over election-year budget

Not just the Sena and TDP, some of the BJP's allies in Bihar have also taken to complain that their concerns are being neglected

Budget 2018: InvITs lucrative option for road, power transmission projects

Of the various government-owned assets in the roads and power sectors, power transmission projects and road assets built in the EPC model are the likely candidates for an InvIT in the near future

Budget 2018 impact: 10% surcharge on customs duty to pinch power sector

India would lose competitive edge while exporting in a highly fluctuating market

Budget 2018: Imports will not decline with Customs duty hike, say experts

While component makers, including tyre manufacturers, are a happy lot, foreign automobile companies, whose volumes are low and depend on imports (such as BMW and Mercedes) are unhappy

Budget 2018 impact: Govt volte-face on insurance merger surprises regulator

The ratio measures to what extent an insurance company has capital to meet claims from all the business it has covered

Govt may form experts' panel to ensure farmers benefit from MSP scheme

The decision on an ideal mechanism to ensure maximum benefit to farmers might be announced ahead of the kharif sowing season in June

Starving defence even as military edge erodes, and the enemy flexes muscles

As a share of GDP, defence expenditure is down to 1.5 per cent in the fifth Budget of the Modi government, from 1.8 per cent in the terminal year of the last government

Budget 2018: UP's share in central taxes up 15% to Rs 1.40 trillion in FY19

The share of Central GST in the projected UP's share of the central taxes is over 30% at over Rs 450 billion

NITI Aayog, Agri ministry, states to work on boosting MSP: Arun Jaitley

On corporation tax, FM argues that a reduction in rates is possible only when exemptions are phased out

Budget 2018: NITI Aayog comes of age with an imprint in major policies

As many as six major announcements made by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Union Budget 2018-19 had clear imprints of the NITI Aayog

Budget 2018: BJP ally Chandrababu Naidu unhappy over 'raw deal' to Andhra

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, at a meeting with party leaders, voiced his disappointment over lack of any allocations for the state

With spendthrift Budget, India takes a wrong turn

Now the fiscal math is muddled, bond yields are spiking, RBI might have to raise rates in response and India is turning protectionist