The government today provided a nominal increase of Rs 26 lakh in the Budget estimates of about Rs 20 crore for Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to meet its establishment-related expenditure

Finance minister P Chidambaram today said work on the Direct Tax Code (DTC) Bill, which seeks to overhaul income tax laws, is in progress and the amended Bill will be

Indicating worsening public finances the government today pegged its net borrowing for 2013-14 at Rs 4. 84 lakh crore about Rs 17 000 crore higher than the revised

There is a need for devising a policy on public-private-partnership framework with Coal India as one of the partners to reduce India's growing dependence on imported coal, finance minister P

India Inc today gave a thumbs up to the UPA-II's last Union Budget before the general elections next year and said Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented a "bold" and "growth-oriented"

The government today raised the Plan expenditure for 2013-14 by 6. 58 per cent to Rs 5 55 322 crore from the Budget estimates of Rs 5 21 025 crore

Seeking to end ambiguity, the government today proposed to follow the international practice with regard to defining foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign institutional investors (FII).
"In order to remove

When it comes to usage of words in the budget speech, terms like women, youth and investors grew in count from the last year levels, when finance minister P Chidambaram