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Budget 2024: Capex momentum for developing highways likely to continue

Focus will be on the quality of work done and not just the length of highways built, say senior govt officials

Increase capex, simplify taxes, bring more PLI schemes: India Inc to FM

Sanjiv Puri, president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), suggested that the capex spending should be increased by 25% over the revised estimate of 2023-24

What did FM Sitharaman say about fiscal deficit in the last 5 Budgets?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to maintain fiscal deficit target at 5.1% for FY25

Union Budget 2024: India's rail safety in focus after recent collisions

Despite substantial previous Budget allocations, incidents like the Kanchanjunga Express collision with a goods train in West Bengal highlight ongoing concerns

Budget 2024 to have Rs 5 trillion allocation for tribal community: Minister

Union Budget 2024: In the interim budget announced on February 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had allocated Rs 1.3 trillion to Tribal Affairs Ministry

Budget 2024: Boost jobs, stick to fiscal goals, economists advise FM

Economists discussed measures for capacity-driven growth that should be sustainable and the need to push private sector investment and consumption to sustain the growth momentum

Modi 3.0 readies for Budget 2024: Tax reforms, economic strategies in focus

Union Budget 2024 is expected to introduce reforms in income tax structure with a focus on reducing taxes for lower income brackets to stimulate consumption

Union Budget 2024: What's ahead for India's space sector development?

The allocation for space department saw a modest 4 per cent increase, from Rs 12,545 crore to Rs 13,043 crore in the Interim Union Budget 2024

Union Budget 2024: No likely cut in fuel prices, PMAY allotment may rise

The Union Budget 2024 is expected to be announced in the third week of July. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to hold pre-budget meeting on June 20

Budget 2024: Continuity in more ways than one in FM's seventh Budget

Will there be tax breaks in the Union Budget 2024? Will there be welfare? Will there be fiscal consolidation? Budget Watch keeps a tab

Budget 2024-25 likely to retain FY25 fiscal deficit target of 5.1%

Record RBI dividend may guide likely focus on capex, special package

Budget 2024: Will the govt provide income tax relief to salaried class?

A report by a leading national-daily claim the upcoming Budget for FY25 may emphasise tax reductions for low-income earners rather than increasing welfare expenditures

Union Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman to hold pre-budget meeting on June 20

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a pre-budget consultation with industry stakeholders on June 20. Here's what to expect

FM Sitharaman to hold pre-budget meeting with industry chambers on Jun 20

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to hold pre-budget consultations with industry chambers on June 20, sources said. The budget for 2024-25 fiscal is likely to be presented in Parliament in the second half of July. Industry sources said the pre-budget consultation with Sitharaman would be preceded by a meeting with Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra on June 18. The 2024-25 Budget is likely to lay out Modi 3.0 government's economic agenda. The finance minister will have to look at measures to boost growth without hurting inflation as well as look for resources to meet the coalition government's compulsion. The economic agenda would include steps to fast-rack reforms to make India a USD 5-trillion economy in near future and turn the country into a 'Viksit Bharat' by 2047. The Indian economy is projected to grow 7.2 per cent in the current fiscal on the back of improving rural demand and moderating inflation, as per RBI estimates. The Modi 3.0 government inherits a strong

FM Nirmala Sitharaman to set new record with 7th consecutive Union Budget

With the interim budget presented on February 1 of this year, Sitharaman equalled Morarji Desai's record of six consecutive budgets

'Ease of living': Back in office, Nirmala Sitharaman lists priorities

Says reforms undertaken since 2014 will continue

Improving conditions

Govt must present a revised fiscal glide path

Analysts welcome PM Modi's faith in Sitharaman as finance minister

Some analysts see spending on infrastructure, which soared under Sitharaman, to remain a big focus of the government

Modi 3.0: Nirmala Sitharaman set to present seventh Budget in a row

A JNU alumnus, Sitharaman led the country in the G20 discussions, bringing to the table for the very first time issues related to cryptocurrency and other much-needed reforms as well

Meet Nirmala Sitharaman, feisty defender of Modi govt to filling big shoes

Nirmala Sitharaman, who joined the likes of Arun Jaitley and Manmohan Singh by serving a full term as Finance Minister and is credited with carrying forward second-generation reforms, created a record by being the first woman to be sworn in as minister for the third consecutive term of the Modi government. Being a fiery spokesperson of the BJP, she was inducted into the Cabinet when Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of the NDA government in 2014. As a staunch defender of the Modi government's economic policies and executor, she created a record when she was appointed as the first female Raksha Mantri, or Defence Minister, in 2017. Prior to that, she was industry and commerce minister. When her mentor Arun Jaitley took ill, Sitharaman was given the charge of the finance portfolio in the newly re-elected Modi government after the 2019 general elections, when BJP won its highest seats of 303. She became the first full-time woman Finance Minister in Independent India. Earlier, ..