With eye on 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Adityanath focuses on jobs, farmers, youth in UP budget

The Rs 4.28 lakh-crore Budget is 11.4% more than last year’s.

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· Feb 16, 2018 · 02:43 pm

Siddaramaiah prioritises agriculture in his Budget for poll-bound Karnataka

While the education sector got Rs 26,846 crore, the state government allocated Rs 6,645 crore for health schemes.

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· Feb 16, 2018 · 01:36 pm

Indian economy was in the hands of a ‘terrible doctor’ during UPA rule: Arun Jaitley

Jaitley said the country was named in the fragile five economies in the world when P Chidambaram was the finance minister.

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· Feb 09, 2018 · 09:52 pm

To ensure proper nutrition for TB patients, give them food instead of cash, say experts

Rs 600-crore budget for nutrition support and aid of Rs 500 per month will do little to prevent undernutrition in TB patients, say public health specialists.

Priyanka Vora

· Feb 08, 2018 · 02:30 pm

Slightly falling short of fiscal deficit aim won’t have material impact on Indian economy: Moody’s

The ratings agency said that Budget 2018 strikes a balance between fiscal prudence and growth.

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· Feb 05, 2018 · 02:12 pm

Opinion: Modicare is more an election gimmick than a real solution to India’s health needs

The mega health insurance scheme announced in Budget 2018 is largely geared towards the corporate healthcare industry’s interests.

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· Feb 05, 2018 · 06:30 am

The Union Budget is popular, not populist, says Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

He said the Budget blends both economy and politics and denied that it did not give the middle class any tax relief.

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· Feb 04, 2018 · 12:34 pm

Budget promise to double farmers’ income is a hollow assurance, says former PM Manmohan Singh

The senior Congress leader said the fiscal arithmetic of the Budget that Arun Jaitley presented on Thursday was at fault.

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· Feb 02, 2018 · 12:56 pm

‘We will declare war’: Andhra Pradesh government unhappy with Budget, may rethink alliance with BJP

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has called a meeting of his Telugu Desam Party leaders on February 4.

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· Feb 02, 2018 · 12:47 pm

A poll dance called ‘Budget Natyam’: Front pages sniff ‘pollitics’ in Jaitley’s Budget before 2019

‘Modicare’, the healthcare bonanza that the finance minister announced on Thursday, was also in focus across front pages.

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· Feb 02, 2018 · 09:59 am

Budget 2018 talks big on rural economy and agriculture. But where is the money?

Many crucial schemes have been allocated less than last time and what the finance minister announced in Parliament.

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

· Feb 02, 2018 · 09:00 am

Barring expansion of loans for institutions, Budget 2018 is a non-starter for education, say experts

Government support for education up 3.8% over 2017-2018 revised estimates.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Feb 02, 2018 · 07:00 am