Budget 2019
Markets
Raising public float: Why $50 bn of share sales may be a blessing in disguise for India
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget proposal to revise the minimum public shareholding norms for listed companies could suck as much ......
Finance
Budget 2019: PE, VC investors get a boost; angel tax norms eased
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed on Friday a bunch of tax incentives to Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) and cleared the ......
Finance
Budget 2019: Will govt look beyond recapitalisation to overhaul state-run banks?
As finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman gives final touches to her first budget speech later this week, she’d be doing so ......
Finance
Budget 2019: Why India needs a more meaningful disinvestment strategy
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office for a second five-year term, the government’s policy think-tank Niti Aayog said ......
Infrastructure
Budget 2019: Infrastructure spending to climb but all eyes on discoms' rising debt
Last week, while inaugurating the budget session of parliament, President Ram Nath Kovind said that India will build 35,000 km ......
Infrastructure
Budget 2019: Easier bank credit, policy push on real estate sector's bucket list
Earlier this year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was vying for re-election, the Bharatiya Janata Party said in its manifesto ......
Finance
Budget 2019: Ayushman Bharat and beyond, here's the healthcare sector's wish list
Cash handouts for farmers and tax sops for the salaried middle class were the major talking points of the interim ......
Finance
Budget 2019: Why reviving job creation, Make in India should top priority list
Just a week after assuming office for a second five-year term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi constituted two key cabinet committees--one ......
Consumer
Cash handouts aside, how Budget 2019 can ease farm distress, boost rural consumption
On 31 May, just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the oath of office for a second term, ......
Finance
What India Inc, taxpayers can expect from Nirmala Sitharaman's maiden budget
Last week, just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Nirmala Sitharaman as India’s new finance minister, a deluge of bad ......
