Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

Fulfilled our promise to give 1.5 times of MSP: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the government has fulfilled its promise of hiking the minimum support price to 1.5 times the production cost of farming produce and said the......

So how is the Modi sarkar doing?

The kind of people Narendra Modi has chosen, the decisions he has taken and the rail and central budgets suggest that he is treading carefully in New Delhi. There is less of innovation and more of......

Why Telangana gave cheques to farmers instead of direct transfer

Despite the growing clamour from the central government on India turning digital, and banks requesting direct bank account transfer, the state government decided to hand over cheques to the......

'We will lose one month's revenue because of GST'

'First priority should be to simplify the GST.' 'Bank consolidation as a reform is overstated.' 'You cannot create jobs sustainably when you grow at 4-5%.' Chief Economic Advisor Arvind......

Food subsidy bill rises 20% in April-January

  While presenting the Economic Survey in the Parliament, finance minister Arun Jaitley Food said that the food subsidy bill rose 20 per cent in April-January 2014-15 at Rs 1.07 lakh......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......