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Rs. 500 Crores for Standup India Government has shown great intent in promoting the start-up ecosystem in India. With Government's announcement to pr...

Prices of many items will be increasing, including luxury cars, jewellery, travel, water, etc. But, there are still few things prices of which have b...

From emphasis on agricultural productivity to huge allocation for MNREGA to fiscal discipline, experts said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has present...

I look at the budget purely from the lens of Consumption. To me consumption equals to development and from that point of view this budget is a mixed ...

Union Budget gave priority to farmers and weaker sections, a much needed measure. "The budget is for everybody. Budget has been provided for infrastr...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has at last presented the Union Budget 2016 and while the budget holds promise, we decided it’s better if the experts w...

Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, said nine pillars were needed to transform India. During his Budget 2016 speech, Jaitley said rural and key socia...

Presenting the Budget 2016-17, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley emphasised on several sectors such as rural, agriculture, socia...

The 2016-17 Union Budget was a budget for the poor, as the government aims to bring development to the grass roots level. Ru...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also touched an emotional cord while presenting his second full budget in the parliament. During his budget speech, Jai...

There are all the right key words, in the Finance Minister’s 9 Point agenda in this budget. Focusing on governance and Ease ...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley left industrialists, economists and commentators on a high note as they cheered the Budget 201...

There were expectations galore- on the tax front, on the financial front, on the manufacturing front and the social front. Budget 2016 overall was a ...

Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, said a vibrant financial sector was important for the growth of Indian economy. He announced a number of measures...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed a higher allocation in education sector with a special focus on employment and skilli...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley outlines 9 main areas of focus in his third budget speech 2016-17. Saying that India was on growth trajectory, Jaitley ...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while presenting his Budget 2016-17, said India stood ground amid global headwinds. Jailtey s...

The Union Government is formulating the budget to be announced on February 29, 2016. The officials in Ministry of Finance are busy with budgetary con...

"I have an exam tomorrow," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today referring to presentation of General Budget in Parliament as he gave a pep talk to motivate students appearing for board exams for which he even roped icons like Sachin Tendulkar and Vishwanathan Anand.

As India gets ready for the Union Budget 2016 amidst all the chaos that has preceded the Parliament session, it is necessary to look at budget from the perspective of that girl child or more importantly her mother. As a student of a business school, I am tempted to write on a number of issues pertaining to Indian fiscal policy which affects the business environment of the country or the startup ecosystem in India. But let me take a different route and list down few areas where adequate budgetary intervention could help the mother and her daughter regain their confidence in the system.

Indian economy is not growing at the expected rate. The current rate of 7.4% GDP growth for Q2 of 2015-16 seems rosy on the surface, but in fact the picture is not that rosy as the real GDP figure includes GDP deflator of -1.4% reducing nominal GDP to 6.0% .

In zeroing down on the perfect budget (there being no such thing of course), the Government should strictly focus on (a) the suggestive overall fiscal stance, (b) the tax and expenditure policies and (c) the projective growth cum visionary reforms. Right now given the anaemic global growth, our own narrative is relatively clear- after recovering from a growth slow down, double digit inflation, policy paralysis, rising NPAs and a pig-headed fiscal deficit, we’re finally striving towards a sweet spot.