"The cut and ending of the Revenue Deficit Grant is a direct violation of the constitutional rights of states in a federal structure. Small and mountainous states like Himachal Pradesh can never ...

The budget manages to deliver significant growth stimulus through targeted expenditure. Revenue expenditure growth is ...

In the Budget for 2025–26, the Centre committed to calibrating annual fiscal deficits in a manner that ensures a steady ...

The new approach comes after the Centre sharply reduced its fiscal deficit from pandemic-era highs, and at a time of rising global uncertainty driven by trade disruptions, geopolitical risks and ...

Manufacturing gets a leg-up with budget support for 7 strategic sectors.Govt capex jumps to Rs 12.2 lakh crore.

The Budget for FY27 has stuck to its fiscal deficit target of 4.4 per cent of GDP for FY26 and has pegged the same at a ...

Budget 2026 Highlights: India has set a lower fiscal deficit target and higher capex outlay for FY27 with a reforms push, ...

MUMBAI: Putting fiscal consolidation onto a slow lane, targeting only a 10 bps reduction from the current year to 4.3% of GDP, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has pushed for more borrowings at Rs ...

Public capex remains the growth anchor, providing a predictable multi-year pipeline which the private sector is well positioned to respond ...

With global uncertainty rising and challenges mounting, the budget opts for discipline over drama. It eschews short-termism ...

The state unit of CPM criticised the union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, saying it has totally ignored the interests of small hill states like Himachal Pradesh.