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.

The report showed that the economic activities which registered growth of over 6.0 per cent in Q2 of 2017-18 over Q2 of 2016-17 are manufacturing, electricity, gas, water supply and trade.

India is keen to become a power major but its existing power grid requires a massive overhaul.

Out of the seven deals, three were in the field of space technology.

The Indian economy is on an upward trajectory. The growth is amongst the fastest in the world and especially significant for a country with GDP in excess of $2 trillion.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday presented Union Budget 2017-18 in Lok Sabha. 

A Budget is essentially an instrument of fiscal policy of the state but it provides an opportunity to read the policy announcements of the government alongside facts and figures, as represented in the budget statements. Consistency is cardinal to policy.

The financial inclusion-the jan dhan yojana to the financial revolution-the demonetization to demonetization are really appreciable and would go a long way to foster inclusive development of the country.

The government has made an honest attempt at realigning economic incentives to drastically change human behaviour and make it easier for those who wish to be honest and incredibly tough for the dishonest. It will hit at the roots of untaxed, undeclared, taxable income

The main US visa program for technology workers could face renewed scrutiny under President-elect Donald Trump and his proposed Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions, a long-time critic of the skilled-worker program.

PM Narendra Modi's regime is squeezing the avenues for generation and circulation of black money, but more reforms are needed to speed things up.

Ranen Banerjee Partner, Government Reforms & Infrastructure Development, PwC and Shivanshu Chauhan, Executive Director, Government Reforms & Infrastructure Development at PwC tell Sarika Malhotra that despite the growing interest, private players in water business are facing teething troubles in India.

Rajan had already made his presence felt at RBI and on the financial reforms front within those two years. He had made the monetary policy sharply focused on consumer price inflation (CPI). His successor will need to decide which ones to follow through.

Cesses will make many services expensive, but the real hit may be the tax on EPF, though there is no clarity on this front yet.

Underpinned by annual economic growth of 7-8 percent, India's fuel demand is seen as a key oil price support over 2016-2017, eating into a supply overhang that has pulled down global crude as much as 70 percent since mid-2014.

The industry normally views the Budget as a key policy document that goes beyond numbers, and underlines the future political and economic priorities.

The Union Budget for FY 2016-17 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

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.

China's economic growth in the fourth quarter slowed to the weakest since the financial crisis, adding pressure on a government that is struggling to restore the confidence of investors.

Foreign bond investors, who were falling over each other to buy state government debt just a few months ago, are now giving it a wide berth as PM Narendra Modi's plan calls for states to take over 75 per cent of the debts of their utility companies over two years.