CEA Krishnamurthy Subramanian, during the presentation of Economic Survey 2019 said India needed to sustain a real GDP growth of 8 per cent to be a $5 trillion economy

Economic Siurvey 2019: The survey, which traditionally has chapters on macro economy as well as industry and different sectors and the outlook, comes a day ahead of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the first budget of the Modi 2.0 government

Union Budget 2019: From a higher income tax exemption threshold to lower tax rates, here's a look at what the salaried class expects from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

It is said that these companies manage to pay minimum taxes as a significant part of their revenues and profits is not attributed to their Indian subsidiaries but to the ones based in low-tax countries or their home countries

Budget 2019: The Finance Minister could do a lot on the GST side since it is still a work in progress. She can rationalise the GST structure which at the moment is applicable to both the supply of the good i.e. gold and on its service i.e. the manufacture of the gold jewellery.

The state-owned telecom firm BSNL had also failed to pay the February salaries to around 1.76 lakh employees due to its financial crisis.

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According to sources, key issues like creation of jobs, boosting exports amid trade wars and initiating more structural reforms too were focus of the interactive session

Union budget 2019: As part of the ritual, 'halwa' is prepared in a big 'kadhai' (large frying pot) and served to the entire staff in the ministry

The newly appointed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the full Budget for 2019-20 on July 5 in the Lok Sabha

GST Council Meet Live Updates: The all-powerful GST Council decided to extend the tenure of National Anti-profiteering Authority (NAA) for a period of two years, whereas rate cuts for electric vehicles has been sent to fitment committee.

Promulgated during the inter-session period by Acts of Parliament, the ordinances will cease to operate by August 1, 2019. Of these ordinances, there are several ones of economic significance.

Modi said senior ministers should hand-hold the new incumbents and that they should share files with ministers of states to increase efficiency and productivity

Minster of state for revenue Hammad Azhar on Tuesday presented in Parliament the austerity driven budget for fiscal year 2019-20, which starts from July 1.