The U.S. tightened its grip on the title of world’s biggest economy in 2024 as an irrepressible American consumer helped it ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be hoping that the money she has put in the hands of the people will cause ...

Focus on growth, middle class. Expect changes in prices of electronics, EVs, luxury goods. The budget also addresses ...

The global macroeconomic backdrop to the finance minister’s eighth budget is a turmoil caused by protectionist policies of ...

A key theme underlying both the Economic Survey and the Budget is to reduce the regulatory burden to improve the ease of doing business.

The government is clearly not convinced that all its claims will materialise, so, there is a focus on tax concessions to the ...

Social safety net programmes, such as Open Market Sales (OMS) and Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF), provided less help to the ...

While public capex has been retained at its elevated level, it appears that the finance ministry believes that without a more ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sets fiscal deficit targets, aims to reduce debt-GDP ratio to 56% by FY26.

Why markets did not give a thumbs-up to a budget that is going to put a lot of money in the hands of the middle class, and ...

Highlights: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced significant income tax cuts for the middle class ...

Latest allocation continues five-year trend of declining defence spending as a share of GDP and budget, with FY26 showing a ...