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e Patriot-News Email the author | Follow on Twitter View/Post Comments Employees in the Department of Auditor General were put on notice earlier this month that furloughs were on the way. View full sizeAuditor General Eugene DePasquale said the ...

The time spent on dicussing the general budget has dropped from an average of 100 hours plus in the 1980s to about 50 hours in the 1990s, 40 hours in 2000s to 31 hours in the 2010s till 2013 where our esteemed parliamentarians deemed the budget just 11 ...

Comptroller and Auditor General of India has pulled up the Jammu and Kashmir government for failing to surrender savings of Rs 5,038.65 crore in budgetary grants and appropriations in financial year 2011-12, saying it was in violation of the state budget ...

The Opposition and some parties supporting the government on Thursday slammed the general Budget as 'jugglery' of numbers and said it had forgotten the aam admi, who was already burdened by price rise, and had nothing to offer to the farmers. Expressing disappointment with the Budget proposals, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said 'it is unimaginative, dull and boring'. "There is nothing for the women, youth and poor, in this Budget and neither is anything there for boosting ...

A power cut and general skepticism in the constituency of Finance Minister P. Chidambaram meant his budget speech on Thursday went largely unnoticed amongst his electorate. But as the details...

The government has earmarked Rs 270.05 crore for the tour expenses of Union ministers in the General Budget 2013-14 which is slightly more than the last fiscal's allocation of Rs 269.94 crore. The General Budget 2013-14 also hiked the allocation for the Prime Minister's Office to Rs 32.22 crore from the last year's Rs 31.72 crore. The provision of Rs 270.05 crore under the head 'Tour Expenses' is for expenditure on travel by cabinet ministers, ministers of state and ex-prime ministers. This ...

Chennai, Mar 21: Severe drought, crop failure and a general economic slowdown not withstanding, the Jayalalithaa Government in Tamil Nadu today presented a tax-free budget, apparently with an eye on next year’s Lok Sabha elections.During 2013-14, the ...

The barrage of cut motions on general and railways budgets4,000 and still countinghas made the Lok Sabha secretariat work overtime to process them, Saubhadra Chatterji reports.

The U.S. Air Force plans to ground about a third of its active-duty force of combat planes and a top general warned Tuesday that the branch might not be able to respond immediately to every event when needed. The Air Force didn't immediately release a list of ...