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Thursday, December 18, 2025
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Topic: budget

In Piyush Goyal’s budget, demonetisation is back to being all about black money

Finance minister says demonetisation led to one crore people filing I-T returns and helped agencies detect and de-register over 3 lakh shell companies.

Govt doubles tax exemption for the middle class man

In the interim budget presentation, finance minister Piyush Goyal increased the tax exemption from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.

Defence budget crosses Rs 3 lakh crore, but lowest ever with respect to GDP

While Pakistan and China are focussing on modernising their armament, India’s own modernisation process could suffer because of the small increase in budget.

Informal sector gets yet another pension scheme

Budget allocates Rs 500 crore for scheme that will provide Rs 3,000 as monthly pension for people with monthly income of Rs 15,000.

Govt’s final move to appease farmers — Rs 6,000 every year for those with 2-hectare plots

The income support scheme announced by Piyush Goyal in the interim budget has similarities with Telangana’s Rythu Bandhu and Odisha’s Kalia schemes.

Budget 2019: The rise in funding for MGNREGA, charted

Despite PM Modi terming MGNREGA as a 'UPA failure', his govt has allocated Rs 60,000 crore in the interim budget — the highest ever for the scheme.

Piyush Goyal begins budget on chest-thumping note, but fiscal deficit sneaks past 3.3%

The deficit target will soothe markets, foreign institutional investors and rating agencies, though it will be revisited when a full budget is presented. New Delhi:...

BJP workers and leaders’ grouse — party has a big purse but small heart

Pre-Truth — snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government. 

Economists, markets are awaiting Modi govt’s fiscal consolidation roadmap in budget 2019

With low indirect tax collections and failing disinvestment, sticking to fiscal deficit target of 3.3% will be tough for Piyush Goyal.

Wondering which side of the debate to pick on India’s jobless growth? This list will help

All you need to know about the debate on job growth in India

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What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.