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Budget may announce fuel subsidy reforms

FM indicates adherence to fiscal road map, benign tax rates, correction in inverted duty structure

Jaitley hints at not raising tax rates, sops for manufacturing

Says structural changes will have to be made to get the economy to 8-9% growth

Finance Ministry begins Budget exercise, seeks inputs

Various ministries have been asked to submit revised estimates of expenditure for 2014-15

Spend budgetary allocations evenly: PM to ministries

Modi also asked the ministers to put the seven northeastern states on their map and asked them to spend time in these states

Modi-govt not neglecting farm sector, says Agri Min

Says higher growth in agriculture is possible if bottlenecks are addressed and more measures will be outlined in the coming Budget towards this direction

Sesa says iron ore exports tax could be scrapped before budget

India's iron ore shipments have slowed to a trickle after mining bans in key producing states

Assocham wants retrospective amendment withdrawn in Budget

Says it will help in improving the environment and instil confidence

New fixed subsidy for NBS fertiliser complexes may not be changed

Falling crude prices and low consumption of NPKS fertiliser could be precursor

Sajjid Z Chinoy: Is the Budget facing an impossible trinity?

An asset swap can simultaneously boost public investment, reduce the fiscal deficit and keep fiscal policy from being pro-cyclical

Andy Mukherjee: Restoring federal balance

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley should give India's states more fiscal breathing room

Abheek Barua: The Budget - back to basics

Getting the balance between fiscal restraint and growth-contracting policy remains a problem

Cong to take up Muslim quota, drought during budget session

The new government got a bill passed that gave reservation to Marathas but left out Muslims during the winter session last month

New textile policy after Budget, says textile commissioner

About 13 textile parks are in various stages of consideration

Centre might need Rs 57,000 crore spending cut to meet fiscal target

Centre shows optimism of achieving the target of 4.1% at back of recent measures and turn around in manufacturing

FM for tax reforms, quick decisions to ensure stability

Finance Minister said the fiscal deficit target of 4.1% of the GDP for the current fiscal would be met

Indo-US CEO Meet will raise mutual investment, trade: Adi Godrej

Says this meet will give tremendous momentum to the business relations of the two largest democracies of the world

Budget may raise import duty on electronics, mobiles

Move likely to fetch additional revenue of at least Rs 4,000 cr in FY16

JK Tyre seeks revision in inverted duty regime in Budget

Company's President and Director says he hopes the Finance Minister will ensure that the economy is revived

Unions demand hike in I-T exemption ceiling to Rs 5 lakh

Finance Minister assures trade unions that govt will not go for privatising Railways and Coal India

No proposal to keep markets open on budget day: Sebi

Says there is no correlation between date on which market is open and day of budget announcement