
National Investment Fund will be solely used for capital investments from this year and the railways and public sector banks…

National Investment Fund will be solely used for capital investments from this year and the railways and public sector banks…

After an aggressive expenditure squeeze enforced in the last fiscal, the government intends to encourage ministries to kick-start their budgetary…

To achieve disinvestment target of Rs55,814 crore, the finance ministry is planning to bunch together the big ticket market offers…

Investors, foreign and domestic, have appreciated that the Budget 2013-14 hasn’t gone back on the fiscal consolidation promise, believes economic…

The finance ministry is working on stringent guidelines for the infrastructure finance companies to raise tax-free bonds announced in the…

In a bid to make inflation-indexed bonds more attractive for investors, the finance ministry is likely to offer inflation-linked returns…

Taking the cue from the poor response to the telecom spectrum auction in the current year, the finance ministry, while…

In a bid to boost the flow of savings of small investors into the equity market, the revised version of…

As he leaves North Block for Parliament this morning to present his eighth Union Budget, Palaniappan Chidambaram has many stakeholders…

The Union Cabinet will shortly consider a proposal to bring spending on all centrally sponsored schemes under the Central Plan…

With not more than four selloffs likely to be concluded before the financial year ends in March, the government is…

With revenue streams lagging the Budget target, the finance ministry has imposed tighter curbs on spending ? especially Plan expenditure…

Encouraged by the positive response to the offer for sale for mining major NMDC, the department of disinvestment is considering…

With the finance ministry mum on the requisite budgetary support, oil marketing companies are fearing a rating downgrade.

Though the Vijay Kelkar committee had suggested the government sell part of its SUUTI shares to meet its R30,000-crore disinvestment…

Equipped with a robust database of unique identity numbers, the government will formally launch direct transfer of a clutch of…

Newly appointed chief economic advisor, Raghuram Rajan, has a tough task ahead of him. He has to suggest policy formulations…

UIDAI working on cash transfer of subsidy as oil retailers focus on getting rid of unintended beneficiaries.