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In line with the Budget announcement by the Union finance minister P. Chidambaram, the group of ministers (GoM) headed by Sharad Pawar on Thursday agreed to merge the existing 147 Centrally-sponsored schemes into 70 programmes administered by various ...

Union finance minister P Chidambaram says that Rs 20,000 crore can be saved out of the oil subsidy budget in the current financial year, which then can be used as cash payouts to oil firms and he does not expect more subsidy demands from the oil ministry ...

Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday ruled out levying wealth tax on farmland, two months after the Budget proposed a 1 per cent tax on such land falling within an eight km radius from urban areas. He also announced changes in tax laws to attract ...

Outlook Money brought together a panel comprising financial experts to dissect the Union Budget for you in a televised roundtable on national broadcaster Doordarshan last fortnight in Mumbai

Faced with intractable fiscal deficit situation, Finance Minister, in Union Budget 2013-14, has tried to pull out all the stops to bolster up revenue by plugging loopholes in taxation. However, this has resulted in some of most popular investments avenues ...

Experts have welcomed the proposal of the union Finance Minister to encourage conversion of municipal #waste into electricity. In his budget speech, the finance minister said he proposes to support municipalities that will implement #waste-to-energy projects ...

India's mutual fund industry, which had an action-packed period last year, expects the government to continue with its reform measures for the sector. They hope that in the upcoming Union Budget, the government should address various issues the sector is ...

Faced with the task of controlling the fiscal deficit, Union Budget 2013 shows a marked retreat from public expenditure on capital formation, and issues a corresponding invitation to the private sector to step up investment and saving.

The Union Cabinet has deferred decision on promulgating an ordinance to implement the Food Security Bill. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said after the meeting of the Union Cabinet that the government will try to call a special session of ...