After paying tribute to the parliamentarian and former Union minister E Ahamed, finance minister Arun Jaitley tables the Union Budget 2017 as scheduled. Catch all the live updates here.

The benchmark indices opened on a flat note on the back of cautious investors anticipating Donald Trump's protectionist policies.

The finance minister has a commitment to reduce the base rate of corporate tax from 30 pc (actually, with cesses and surcharges it comes to nearly 34 pc) to 25 pc by 2018-19.

Zimbabwe authorities offered residential land to government employees in lieu of annual bonuses, unions said on Thursday, rejecting a proposal that suggests the cash squeeze gripping the country is unlikely to ease this year.

Have you ever wondered why every year Finance Minister poses with a leather briefcase before he reads his Budget Day speech inside the parliament? Well, the answer lies in the word 'budget' itself. It originates from a French word 'bougette' which means a leather bag.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented BJP government's fourth Budget on February 1, 2017.

February 1, 2017 will ring in a new date for the annual budget. It will be delivered soon after a massive demonetization drive that started with a 52-day promise, but is slowly stretching towards 60 and more.

PSBs will require much more capital than allocated by the government for the next two years.

As it is considered a social sector, the healthcare sector has been on the lower edge in terms of Budget allocation.

The Sensex may underperform for the third year in a row due to uncertainty in the economy.

Both of Urjit Patel's policy reviews so far have wrong-footed investors, raising frustration that they are unable to get a handle on where monetary policy is headed in Asia's third-largest economy.

Online furniture marketplace Pepperfry has raised Rs 210 crore in a fresh round of funding from current investors Goldman Sachs, Bertelsmann India Investments (BII), Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and Zodius Technology Fund.

Union Budget has for decades been presented on last day of February, but this could soon change with the government mulling advancing it to January end so as to complete the budget exercise before the beginning of the new fiscal.

The Rs 22,915 crore injected into public sector banks will not be sufficient if we consider their severe asset quality deterioration, plunging profitability and low valuations.

Government on Tuesday provided Rs 22,915 crore capital to 13 PSU banks including SBI, PNB and IOB to enhance their lending operations and enable them to raise more money from the market.

FM Jaitley proposed 1% excise duty on jewellery without input credit or 12.5% with input tax credit on jewellery, excluding silver other than studded with diamonds and some other precious stones.

As expected, rural India has a massive impetus to the turning of the wheels of the economy in the union budget for 2016/17.

The Union Budget 2016/17 presented by the Finance Minister is a step ahead from the Start-up India, Stand up India initiative announced earlier this year.

Finance Ministry Arun Jaitley, in his budget speech, stuck to earlier plans to provide $3.7 billion in new capital next year towards the escalating cost of a sector-wide bailout that the government estimates at $26 billion over four years.

Tata Power welcomes the Union budget 2016/2017 and appreciates the Government's balanced effort to maintain Current Account Deficit under a strict disciplined regime.