Budget 2018 Reeling from a continued fall in export growth and marginal refunds on the goods and services tax (GST), the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has written to the gover

Budget 2018 India Ratings and Research on Thursday projected the country's economic growth to improve to 7.1 per cent next financial year from 6.5 per cent this year, buoyed by robust c

Budget 2018 India Ratings and Research on Thursday projected the country's economic growth to improve to 7.1 per cent next financial year from 6.5 per cent this year, buoyed by robust c

Budget 2018 At the pre-Budget consultations of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with state finance ministers on Thursday, ministers representing state governments run by Congress, Left par

Budget 2018 The forthcoming Budget should provide several policy measures to give a stimulus to the troubled agricultural sector, which in turn would help the cash-straved fertiliser co

Budget 2018 In the run up to the budget, retailers have asked the government to simplify GST system and grant industry status to the sector for easier access to finance and attract more

Budget 2018 Job creation is one of Modi government's biggest challenges, with the Opposition using what it calls the government's poor performance in this regard as a stick to beat the

Budget 2018 It is believed that investment in India’s infrastructure industry would yield more impact if all related projects are planned and delivered on the same timeline. This is see

Budget 2018 Global oil prices have been hovering near a three-year high of $70 per barrel recently, propelled by production cuts by Opec and Russia. Recovering international cr

Budget 2018 Ahead of the budget, farmers body FAIFA today asked the government to have a taxation policy that curbs cigarette smuggling, saying Indian tobacco growers are suffering due

Budget 2018 On February 1, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the Budget 2018, his fifth and the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s final full Bud

Budget 2018-19 Ahead of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said the agriculture sector was the top priority for the government because the country’s economic gro

Budget Key challenges Small landholding: Since the bulk of farmers have less than 2 hectares of land, there is a difficulty in getting the benefits of ‘economics of scale’

Union Budget 2018 Higher salaries and tax-free income from West Asian and southeastern airlines have for long snatched pilots away from Indian carriers. Now, a surcharge levied by the I

Union Budget 2018 The government is likely to increase the budget allocation for farm education, research and extension by up to 15 per cent to around Rs 80 billion (Rs 8,000 crore) in