Union Budget 2019: Talking about the Indian Railways, the finance minister said a public-private partnership will make services better.

The first half of Modi 1.0 witnessed the Railways struggling with growing staff and increasing pension costs after the execution of the Seventh Pay Commission and low earnings

Railways Budget 2019: During the last three years of the previous Modi government, the operating ratio remained above 95 per cent, reaching 98.4 per cent during 2017-18

Analysts say Modi, boosted by a sweeping election victory, hopes to use the budget to restart reforms and deal with a series of economic woes.

Budget 2019: Indian economy will reach $3 trillion in current year, it is well within our capacity to reach $5 trillion economy in few years, says FM

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 government has always found it difficult to dilute the provisions of MAT as it has been a way to expand India's direct tax base and also fetch some additional revenues

The new PSU - Indian Railway Rolling Stock Company - will be structured along the lines of China's rolling stock manufacturer PSU CRRC Group

It is the first innings as Union ministers for a total of six Cabinet ministers and 13 ministers of state in the Modi government

The sources said that Jaitley, 66, is unlikely to take up any offer to continue in the top job steering Asia's third-largest economy as his health has deteriorated over the past few months

This job is as intense, if not more, because there's still steam left in the ongoing deceleration. Indian economy has been in slowdown mode for at least 3 quarters

While the RBI is likely to be open to more policy easing, provided inflation does not surge, their impact on economic activity may be limited, given debts burdening India's state banking sector

As per a report in Dainik Bhaskar, the two stations have now been identified as 'green' stations. Green plants and shrubs have been planted outside the station, the report added.

Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan suggested that India needs to boost its pace of growth, especially in job creating sectors which in turn merits a whole new generation of reforms as the old ones have lost momentum.

The introduction of e-procurement in India has also increased competition and led to better quality of construction, the IMF said in its latest edition of the fiscal monitor report