Deficit rain, heat wave hit normal life in northeast
Agartala/Aizawl, June 25 (IANS) Huge rain deficit and severe heat wave conditions hit the normal life across the north-eastern region and the supply of drinking …
Fiscal Deficit at 0.75% of GDP in April: DoE figures
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Fiscal deficit for the month of April was at Rs 1,57,048 crore which is 22 per cent of the budgeted …
Maharashtra’s please-all budget with deficit of Rs 20,293 cr
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) With an eye on the upcoming assembly elections, Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Tuesday presented an additional please-all state budget …
US trade deficit shrinks in April
Washington, June 7 (IANS) US trade deficit shrank to 50.8 billion US dollars in April, down 1.1 billion dollars from revised March reading of 51.9 …
US GSP withdrawal: New markets, subsidy to help India contain trade deficit
New Delhi/Mumbai, June 5 (IANS) New export markets, financial support and lower crude oil prices are likely to offset the impact on trade deficit caused …
India’s 2018-19 fiscal deficit at 3.39% of GDP, lower than target
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) India met its fiscal deficit target for 2018-19, which came in at 3.39 per cent of GDP, slightly lower than …
Fiscal deficit may see upward revision in Budget from 3.4% to beat slowdown
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The upcoming Budget in July may revise the fiscal deficit of 3.4 per cent upwards in view of the need …
Can east, south offset BJP deficit? (Column: Political Calculus)
The biggest test for India’s largest democracy is going to end in the Lok Sabha elections. The whole country’s focus is on West Bengal elections …
Populist schemes to push up deficit, report
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) India will see a coalition government post the polls and such a formation will force it to borrow more to …
India’s merchandise exports inches up in April; trade deficit widens
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) India’s merchandise exports inched up 0.64 per cent, on a year-on-year basis in April, to $26.07 billion from $25.91 billion …
Unrelenting heat wave, deficit rain hit normal life in N-E
Agartala/Guwahati, May 13 (IANS) Intense heat wave conditions and deficit pre-monsoon rains have hit normal life across the northeastern region and also severely affected the …
India’s fiscal deficit touched 4.52% at end-February
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The country’s fiscal deficit at Rs 8.51 lakh crore at the end of February 2019 had touched 4.52 per cent …
Heat wave, deficit rain affect normal life in NE
Agartala/Guwahati, April 29 (IANS) The normal life in the northeastern region has been affected due to heat wave in several areas and deficit pre-monsoon rains, …
Fiscal deficit adhered to Budget target: RBI Governor
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das has said the gross fiscal deficit has adhered to budgetary targets, and …
Government meets FY19 fiscal deficit goal of 3.4%
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The government has met the fiscal deficit target of 3.4 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in FY19, …
Government meets fiscal deficit of 3.4% in 2018-19
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The Finance Ministry is believed to have met the revised fiscal deficit target of 3.4 per cent in the last …
Congress promises GST reforms, lower fiscal deficit
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Congress party’s manifesto for the general election released on Tuesday promised a single rate GST regime and lower fiscal …
High trade deficit pushes India’s Q3 CAD to $16.9 bn
Mumbai, March 29 (IANS) India’s current account deficit (CAD) widened to $16.9 billion during the third quarter of 2018-19 from $13.7 billion reported in the …
April-Feb fiscal deficit up to 134% of target
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) Lower tax collection pushed India’s budgetary fiscal deficit for April-February 2018-19 period to 134.2 per cent or Rs 8.51 lakh …
April-February fiscal deficit at 134% of target
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) India’s budgetary fiscal deficit for April-February 2018-19 period reached 134.2 per cent or Rs 8.51 lakh crore of the target …
Liquidity status, fiscal deficit under control: Government
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) As the 2019 fiscal draws to an end, the government on Monday reiterated that the fiscal deficit and liquidity positions …
By 2030 US to face 121,000 doctors deficit
New York, March 25 (IANS) The practice of medicine in the US may well find itself in intensive care, with a deficit of 121,000 physicians …
Fiscal deficit in revised target due to cut in non-essential expenditure
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) As the 2019 fiscal nears its end, the Finance Ministry’s fiscal managers say the revised deficit target of 3.4 per …
Meghalaya CM presents tax-free, deficit budget
Shillong, March 12 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Tuesday presented a Rs 1,323-crore deficit, tax free budget — around 3.65 per cent of …
US trade deficit soars to 10-year high in 2018
Washington, March 7 (IANS) US trade deficit soared to $621 billion in 2018, the highest in a decade, data released on Wednesday by the US …
Small savings, March taxes to keep fiscal deficit in control
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) The government on Friday said the overshooting of fiscal deficit to 121 per cent over the budgeted figure “is not …
Maharashtra presents interim budget for 2019-20 with Rs 19,784 cr estimated revenue deficit
Mumbai, Feb 27 (IANS) Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar presented the interim budget for the fiscal 2019-20 with an estimated deficit of Rs 19,784 crore, …
April-Jan fiscal deficit at 121% of target on lower revenue
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) India’s budgetary fiscal deficit for April-January at Rs 7.70 lakh crore has touched 121.5 per cent of the budgeted target …
India’s April-Jan fiscal deficit at 121% of target
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) India’s budgetary fiscal deficit for April-January at Rs 7.70 lakh crore has touched 121.5 per cent of the budgeted target …
Nagaland CM present tax-free, deficit budget, stressses on start-ups
Kohima, Feb 25 (IANS) Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Monday presented a Rs 1,661.68 crore deficit, tax-free budget for 2019-20 fiscal with a focus …
Tax free, deficit-less Rs 17,530 cr budget presented in Tripura
Agartala, Feb 25 (IANS) Tripura Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma on Monday presented a Rs 17,530.46 crore tax-free budget for 2019-20, containing several new …
India’s exports in Jan up 4%, trade deficit widens to $14.73 billion
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) India’s merchandise exports grew 3.74 per cent on a year-on-year basis in January to $26.36 billion, from $25.41 billion reported …
Goyal for printing currency to finance deficit
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) Noting that finance ministers all over the world are perennially in search of revenue to balance government budgets, acting Finance …
Karnataka CM presents deficit budget for fiscal 2019-20
Bengaluru, Feb 8 (IANS) Burdened by Rs 12,650-crore farm loan waiver and other exigencies, Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Friday presented a deficit budget …
Revised GDP to check fiscal deficit to 3.1% in FY20: Chief Economic Adviser (IANS Interview)
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian is not worried about the upward revision of fiscal deficit target for 2019-20 to 3.4 …
India’s April-December fiscal deficit crosses 112% of target
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) India’s budgetary fiscal deficit for the April-December period stood at Rs 7.01 lakh crore or 112.4 per cent of the …
Fiscal deficit 3.2% based on revised GDP numbers: Economic Affairs Secretary
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Ruling out fiscal deficit as a real concern, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg on Saturday said the government has …
Lower revenue poses risk for deficit after largesse proposed in Interim Budget
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) With the interim Budget presented in an election year showering largesse across large sectors such as agriculture, housing and the …
Fiscal deficit slipped but no change in glide path: Goyal
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said the government will miss the fiscal deficit target for the current and coming …
Budget 2019-20: Deficit for current fiscal pegged higher at 3.4%
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) The Centre on Friday revised upwards the fiscal deficit target for 2018-19 to 3.4 per cent of the GDP, from …