Stock Market News Updates Today: Earlier today, Sensex hit a record high of 51,804 and Nifty hit a lifetime high of 15,243

RBI's database, reports and other evidence show India is credit surplus; large industrial houses have high debt stress, and that easy credit poses serious macro-financial risks to the economy

Stock Market Live News Today: Sensex and Nifty continued hitting new all-time highs today. Both benchmarks hit fresh lifetime highs of 51,523 and 15,159 earlier today

My goal is to reach out and engage about 80 percent of the young population of Jammu and Kashmir within the next five years, says Lt Governor Manoj Sinha

Little attention to direct income support, health and education deprivations, and revival of small businesses will keep the demand and production of goods and services depressed in FY22

Real GDP growth is projected at 10.5 per cent in 2021-22 - in the range of 26.2 to 8.3 per cent in H1 and 6.0 per cent in Q3, RBI's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) stated in its growth outlook

The projection by the RBI governor is in line with the estimates in the Union Budget 2021-22 presented in Parliament earlier this week

Economists, CEOs, consultants, sector specialists interpret Nirmala Sitharaman's 'Never-before' Budget

The FM has set the stage, but timely execution is critical

The Budget focuses on growth to create jobs but lacks holistic measures to solve the problem of massive unemployment

FM bets big on infrastructure with focus on asset monetisation and sharp rise in allocations to highways and railways

In spite of criticism and Opposition jibes, the Centre commits itself to selling most PSUs; sets ambitious disinvestment target for FY22

Move to set up an ARC/AMC as a proxy for bad bank and a Development Financial Institution is aimed at taking the load of risky assets from banks. It is easier said than done

Dalal Street today: ITC, M&M, ONGC, Bajaj Finserv, NTPC were among the top gainers while ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, Infosys, HDFC traded as top losers

Lenient FDI regulations, listing of LIC, and privatisation of a government-owned general insurer should benefit the broader domestic insurance market as these entities hold dominant positions, says Moody's

The strategic sectors have been classified in four broad baskets -- national security, critical infrastructure, energy and minerals and financial services, said DIPAM Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey

Resisting the temptation to hike taxes, the finance minister banked on disinvestment and asset monetisation to increase government's revenue.

Bold measures have been proposed in the budget, such as privatisation of two public sector banks and a general insurance company in this fiscal, higher FDI in the insurance sector, exhibiting India's confidence to be globally competitive

The Union Budget for 2021-22 admirably rises to the challenge of creating an enabling environment to deliver on the promise of National Infrastructure Pipeline in the next few years

The Union Budget 2021-22 has taken into consideration the needs of all sectors of the economy, reflecting a robust growth plan for India to become a $5 trillion economy, USISPF president Mukesh Aghi said