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Finance
Budget 2018: Financing to MSMEs gets special attention
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sought to bring discipline in the medium, small and micro enterprise financing space through higher capital ......
TMT
Budget 2018: Jaitley denounces cryptocurrency, welcomes blockchain
The Indian government doesn’t consider cryptocurrencies legal tender but will adopt the blockchain technology to encourage the digital economy, finance ......
Finance
Budget 2018: Govt aims to mop up $12.5 bn from divestment next fiscal year
The government aims to raise Rs 80,000 crore ($12.5 billion) from stakes sales in state-run companies in 2018-19, as it ......
Healthcare
Budget 2018: Govt announces world's largest health scheme, to benefit 500 mn poor
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, on Thursday, announced the flagship National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), which aims to provide an annual ......
Consumer
Budget 2018: Rural India, education get top billing
Rural India and the education sector were among the big winners of the Union Budget for 2018-19 even as Finance ......
Finance
Budget 2018: Has Modi govt sounded the election bugle?
Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday unveiled a pro-poor, pro-farmer budget ahead of the general elections due in 2019.In the ......
Manufacturing
India factory growth eases to three-month low in January
Indian factory growth cooled to a three-month low in January as weaker domestic demand dragged on output despite firms keeping ......
TMT
Microsoft gets govt nod to bring Indian public sector firms on the cloud
Tech giant Microsoft has received approval from the Ravi Shankar Prasad-led ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) for its ......
Finance
Budget 2018: Highlights
Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday lowered the government’s fiscal deficit target for the current financial year in the annual ......
TMT
Samsung to hire at least 1,000 engineers for projects on AI, IoT
South Korean electronics giant Samsung on Thursday said it was planning to hire at least 1,000 engineers from top institutes ......