Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said that the UPA will face 2014 General Elections on the plank of high growth and low inflation. Speaking to Shereen Bhan of CNBC TV18 in an exclusive interview, Chidambaram said that there isn't and never was a danger of rating downgrade for India. ...
06:49 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Is the Budget 2013-14 drafted, keeping the 2014 general elections in mind? IBN7's Managing Editor Ashutosh shared his perspective in an interaction with IBNLive readers. ...
06:17 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Is the Income Tax surcharge on the super-rich the right way? Meera Sanyal, Country Executive India, Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS Group), joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:10 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Is the Union Budget 2013-14 the right thing for India? Professor of Finance at Nottingham University Business School Sanjay Banerji shared his perspective in an interaction with IBNLive readers. ...
05:49 PM, Mar 01, 2013
The government seems to have major hopes attached to archery, boxing and shooting - increasing their budget by almost 100 percent. ...
04:48 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram is wished luck by his grand daughter Aditi Nalini. ...
02:23 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose party JD(U) is an ally of the BJP, on Thursday lavished praise on Finance Minister P Chidambaram for Union Budget. Nitish Kumar's praising Chidambaram indicated that political permutations and combinations may soon change as his stand on the Union Budget is contradictory to the BJP's which criticised it for being nothing more than verbose. ...
12:56 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Make no mistake: Regardless of what pundits tell you, this is an election Budget prepared skillfully not just with a view to the upcoming Lok ...
11:28 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Investors sentiments were spooked because rules were tighten in the Budget 13-14 for those based in Mauritius, seeking to avoid double taxes. Overseas investors will also have to provide the certificate that they are the final beneficiaries apart from the residency certificate. ...
10:15 AM, Mar 01, 2013
It's that time of the year when the government hikes the taxes and we tax the stars. We're calling the shots on the cuts and increases in B-town's accounts and taking charge of its purse-strings. ...
09:11 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented his eighth budget on Thursday, the last before the 2014 elections. Experts have called it a balancing budget aimed at reviving growth amid an economic slowdown. Reacting to the Budget, Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy has questioned the laid back attitude of successive governments. ...
09:02 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram's 'safety first' Budget has got a mixed response. While some say he is salvaging a bad situation, the Opposition has called it a missed opportunity. When asked whether the Budget is an adequate response to the challenge that the Indian economy is facing, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, "Well I don't think it's an adequate response. The Finance Minister and the UPA had pushed the economy...
08:00 AM, Mar 01, 2013
The Home Ministry's budget outlay for 2013-14 has seen a six-fold hike in allocation for police modernisation and increase in funds for organisations dealing with terror threats. ...
05:05 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Recent crime against women reflected in UPA-II government's last Budget, with Finance Minister P Chidambaram announcing an all-women public sector bank and unveiling a slew of gender sensitive initiatives. ...
03:05 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Budget 2013 raised social spending, slapped surcharges on Rs 1-crore-plus incomes and on property deals, increased corporate tax payouts, and kept tight deficit targets. ...
11:48 PM, Feb 28, 2013
In a special CNN-IBN show 'The Budget Debate', Karan Thapar discusses with a panel if the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister P Chidambaram assures that it can handle the critical economic situation the country is facing. Union Minister Kapil Sibal, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury and BJP leader Arun Jaitley were a part of the panel. ...
11:33 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram unveiled a surge in spending on Thursday, despite expectations of an austerity budget to shore up the government's finances, imposing new taxes on the rich and large companies to fund a dash for growth ahead of an election due by 2014. The extent of the slowdown gripping Asia's third-largest economy was underlined by data released just hours after Chidambaram delivered his budget for the coming fiscal...
09:42 PM, Feb 28, 2013
With over 35 years of experience in the field of personal taxation, Subhash Lakhotia answers your queries on the Budget and what it has in store for you. ...
09:10 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the UPA government's budget lacks a growth strategy and vision to develop India's economy. Coming down heavily on the budget, he said that there is a lack of co-ordination between the 12th Five Year Plan and the budget presented for the year 2013-14 by Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram. ...
09:01 PM, Feb 28, 2013
CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses the question and much more with a panel of experts on the show Budget before Ballot. ...
08:48 PM, Feb 28, 2013
