Union Budget 2019 Live: With today's budget, the Modi government seeks to reverse weakening growth and investment to regain India's fastest growing economy tag

The economy is facing the biggest slowdown seen in last five years with the GDP growth in the December quarter of FY19 coming down to 5.8 per cent

The report also pointed out that there was a general positive correlation between the Health Index scores and the economic development levels of states and UTs as measured by per-capita net state domestic product (NSDP).

Agriculture, infrastructure, exports, financial services and taxation are some of the critical sectors that need immediate attention. The 2019 Budget needs to address these concerns

The fiscal deficit of states is lower than estimated, while their share in central taxes and GST compensation has increased.

A tale of two cities: Bengaluru retains its spot as India's start-up capital but Delhi-NCR is fast catching up

Since becoming prime minister in 2014, Modi succeeded in improving public finances, trimming the fiscal deficit to 3.4% of gross domestic product (GDP) from 4.5% in 2013/14, mostly through subsidies cuts and fuel taxes

Slipping fiscal discipline would hurt the \"credibility\" of the budget and in turn hit investment, the bond market and the rupee, analysts say

The Indian economy is not in great shape. What are the options before the new government to kickstart growth?

After a landslide victory at the general election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces immediate challenge of arresting a slowdown in the world's sixth largest economy, creating jobs, stimulating private investment and tackling bad loan woes of banks, economists have said.

This is the first time in the history when a non-Congress government has returned to power with absolute majority

Share Market Update:  At closing hour, Indian equity market lost all gains with benchmark indices falling around 1 per cent each to bearish territory. While Sensex ended down by 354 points or 0.91 per cent at 38,756.08, Nifty was down by 106 points or 0.91 per cent down at 11,631.

Contrary to what most market participants had anticipated, the Sensex returned just 51% under PM Narendra Modi's term as compared to UPA-II's 78 per cent and UPA-I's 180 per cent under the then PM Manmohan Singh

As far as ministers of state are concerned, the RTI reply states that they incurred expenses of Rs 29 crore on foreign visits and Rs 53 crore on domestic visits