As the NDA government enters its final year, there is a long unfinished agenda that it may not be able to implement by 2019.

Industry stakeholders as well as the common man are eagerly looking to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to deliver a make-happy Budget with an eye on general elections next year.

Appropriate initiatives must be taken for processing \"timely\" input tax refunds to exporters.

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FarMart aggregates farm machinery for the mutual benefit of owners and users.

Still, the 'narrow' corridor managed to include measures to boost consumption, to provide growth stimulus, and to ensure fiscal discipline.

The Budget comes in the midst of China's yuan devaluation and a global slowdown. Let us have a look at what are the top expectations from Narendra Modi government's full-fledged second Union Budget.

The rural economy is reeling under erratic monsoons and unfriendly government policies. The crisis is so deep that its spillover has made the whole economy anaemic.

Despite the best efforts by policy makers and state-owned banks, the last mile problem has been an insurmountable hurdle in the way of financial inclusion for the poor. Bindu Ananth, Chair - IFMR Trust & IFMR Holdings, busts some common fallacies about financial inclusion.

Industry associations have seldom criticized government decisions, especially if they result in the ease of doing business.

The state's gross domestic product has grown at more than nine per cent consistently since 2009/10, most of it on account of agriculture, which has averaged about 20 per cent growth in these years.

The government has set a target of Rs 800,000 crore for agriculture credit during 2014/15. It has decided to continue the Interest Subvention Scheme and raise corpus of Rural Infrastructure Development Fund to Rs 25,000 crore.

A week back, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) had given an in-principal approval for providing interest-free loans to cash-starved sugar mills and asked the Food Ministry to finalise the guidelines.

Three start-ups now cater to the connoisseur seeking freshly roasted and ground coffee.

Kharif sowing has made steady progress  this year on the back of a good monsoon, raising prospects of a bumper crop. Rice, oilseeds and cotton, among other major crops, had been sown across 75 million hectares as on July 26 - up 18 per cent over the area cultivated last year.

Data on defaults suggests that Indian borrowers have become increasingly ill-behaved, but that will have to change soon.