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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 2019: Farm spend doubled in Modi govt years; is that enough?

Agriculture generates only 18% of gross domestic product but sustains 600 million people--half of India's population

Govt considering NITI Aayog's area-based package for distressed farmers

The area-based income compensation (ABIC) scheme says that farmers should be paid the difference between the actual price they get and the state-mandated minimum support price (MSP)

Budget issues

The main feature of the presentation of the Mini Budget was the downright irritating protests of the opposition members on technical grounds rather than the contents.

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

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

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

Interim Budget 2019: FM has cheap crude oil to thank for his fiscal record

Carrying over of subsidies and expenditure cuts also helped

Development strategy & Budget

Fiscal prudence, compliance and simplification - however desirable - are too narrow as a focus for policy design

Opportunity taken

Why the President's address to Parliament on Jan 31 will be as important as the interim Budget to be presented by the finance minister

Govt signals readiness to sacrifice fiscal discipline for economic growth

In addition to fiscal measures, Jaitley is hoping for some support on the monetary front