Budget 2018
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: 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 ......
Markets
Budget 2018: Modi jolts stock market golden goose with long-term capital gains tax
The Union government's proposal to re-introduce long-term capital gains tax (LTCG) on equities and equity-linked securities such as mutual funds ......
Economy
Budget 2018: Live Blog
Finance minister Arun Jaitley presented today what will most likely be the Narendra Modi government’s final full budget before the ......
Infrastructure
PE firms, sovereign funds replace banks as top realty investors: Economic Survey
Private equity funds and overseas financial institutions such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds have replaced banks as the ......
Finance
GDP growth, earnings key to sustaining stock market boom: Economic Survey
The Economic Survey 2018-19, which anticipated India’s economic growth at 7.0-7.5% for the next fiscal year, analysed the boom in ......
Infrastructure
India faces infrastructure investment gap of $526 bn by 2040: Economic Survey
India needs to spend as much as $4.5 trillion to boost its creaky infrastructure by 2040 but will grapple with ......
Economy
Budget 2018: Economic survey sees GDP growth picking up in FY19
The Indian economy is likely to grow between 7% and 7.5% in the financial year that begins in April, the ......
Economy
Budget 2018: Govt may set record $15.7 bn disinvestment target
India’s government may look to raise as much as a record 1 trillion rupees ($15.7 billion) from the sale of ......
