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Finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman budgets for 25-year `Amrit Kaal’
14 Feb 2022
Union Budget 2022-23 seeks to complement macro-economic level growth with a micro-economic level all-inclusive welfare focus, promoting digital economy and fintech, technology enabled development, energy transition, and climate action, while relying on virtuous cycle starting from private investment with public capital investment helping to crowd-in private investment
Finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman budgets for 25-year `Amrit Kaal’
14 Feb 2022
Union Budget 2022-23 seeks to complement macro-economic level growth with a micro-economic level all-inclusive welfare focus, promoting digital economy and fintech, technology enabled development, energy transition, and climate action, while relying on virtuous cycle starting from private investment with public capital investment helping to crowd-in private investment
Highlights of the Union Budget 2022-23 - Part A
07 Feb 2022
Highlights of the Union Budget 2022-23 - Part A
07 Feb 2022
Consumer price inflation for agricultural and rural labourers rose to 4.78% and 5.03% in December 21
27 Jan 2022
Indian economy seen growing at 9.2% this fiscal
08 Jan 2022
India’s gross domestic product (GDP) in real terms or GDP at constant prices (base 2011-12) is estimated to have expanded by 9.2 per cent in the year 2021-22 to Rs147.54 lakh crore, as against the provisional estimate of Rs135.13 lakh crore for the year 2020-21
India’s core sector output up 7.5% on October
01 Dec 2021
India’s GDP grows 8.4% to Rs35.73 lakh crore in Q2 FY22
01 Dec 2021
GDP at constant prices in fiscal first half (April-September 2021-22) is estimated to have grown 13.7 per cent to Rs68.11 lakh crore compared to Rs59.92 lakh crore during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal
Cabinet approves release of an additional 3% DA and DR to central govt staff, pensioners
27 Oct 2021
Consumer price inflation for agricultural and rural labourers lower at 2.89% and 3.16% in September
27 Oct 2021
India’s industrial production up 11.9% in August
18 Oct 2021
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