Economy - general
Poverty level in India declined to 29.8 per cent by 2009-10: report
19 Mar 2012
Poverty levels in Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland increased in 2009-10 while some of the bigger states such as Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh have shown marginal declines in poverty ratios, particularly in rural areas
Budget dinner talk between the PM and the FM
17 Mar 2012
It is a closely guarded secret that the PM hosts the FM every year for dinner on budget day, to help the FM get over the stress and also as a performance review exercise. We have exclusive transcripts from their dinner conversation this year. By Vivek Sharma
PM’s interview on the Union Budget- 2012-13
16 Mar 2012
Prime minister Manmohan Singh explains the budget response to the declining GDP growth, a ballooning deficit at the central and state levels and rising external deficit in a brief DD News interview
Budget 2012-13: Pranab Mukherjee's first exclusive interview after the Budget speech
16 Mar 2012
Shortly after presenting Budget 2012-13, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke to CNBC-TV18's Siddharth Zarabi about the constraints under which this exercise was taken.CNBC-TV18 shares its excusive post-Budget interview with domain-b
Budget 2012-13: Pushing infrastructure to pull industry
16 Mar 2012
Infrastructure investment during the 12th Plan will go up to Rs50,00,000 crore, with half of this coming from private sector
Disinvestment target at Rs30,000 crore
16 Mar 2012
Companies can access cheaper foreign funds
16 Mar 2012
Measures proposed to curb black money
16 Mar 2012
Corporate tax payments flat in Q4; govt to miss target
16 Mar 2012
Mumbai, which accounts for 35-40 per cent of the all-India direct tax collections, will not be able to meet the basic target of Rs2.04 lakh crore advance tax collection
Budget 2012-13 aims to ease subsidy burden
16 Mar 2012
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee proposed to reduce government's subsidy burden and get the economy out of the political gridlock towards economic reforms for reviving growth (more Budget reports)
Inflation dipping but take care, warns economic survey
16 Mar 2012
The government’s annual pre-budget exercise calls for better data collection and more inclusive banking
Steady growth in employment since July 2009
15 Mar 2012
Emphasis on sustainable growth
15 Mar 2012
Economic survey pegs FY’12 GDP growth at 6.9 per cent
15 Mar 2012
According to the Economic Survey, the Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.6 per cent in 2012-13 and by 8.6 per cent in 2013-14