Government-owned and private banks besides non-banking financial companies have been saddled with huge NPAs.
05 Jul 2019 12:59 PM
Training of workforce with relevant skills will help address the severe skill shortage technology and IT companies are facing right now.
05 Jul 2019 12:55 PM
Union Minister for Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat had on July 1 launched 'Jal Shakti Abhiyan'.
05 Jul 2019 12:54 PM
Sitharaman proposed the setting up of a payments platform for MSMEs for payment of bills.
05 Jul 2019 12:53 PM
The Swachh Bharat mission is one of the largest cleanliness drives in the world and is also an attempt to initiate behavioural change.
05 Jul 2019 12:52 PM
Every rural family, except those unwilling to take connection, will have electricity and LPG connection by 2022, said Sitharaman.
05 Jul 2019 12:52 PM
Expressing happiness, she also announced that India will be made Open Defecation Free on October 2nd, 2019, as per the dream of PM Modi.
05 Jul 2019 12:51 PM
The government aims to connect all 2.5 lakh village panchayats with high speed broadband by March 2020.
05 Jul 2019 12:47 PM
Government keeps Gaon, Garib, and Kisan at the centre of everything we do, of every programme by 2022, says Sitharaman.
05 Jul 2019 12:43 PM
Sitharaman said that the government keeps 'Antodaya' (development of all) at the centre of all its programmes.
05 Jul 2019 12:33 PM
NDA in its first term set the ball rolling for 'New India' with strident commitment to fiscal consolidation, said Sitharaman.
05 Jul 2019 12:33 PM
Finance Minister said as the world's third largest aviation market, time is ripe to enter aircraft financing and leasing from Indian shores.
05 Jul 2019 12:12 PM
Earlier she said that the objective her government was to empower citizens for a strong nation.
05 Jul 2019 12:09 PM
Global FDI flow slipped by 13 per cent in 2018 to USD 1.3 trillion, from 1.5 in the previous year.
05 Jul 2019 12:06 PM
Savitri and Narayanan Sitharaman arrived in a separate car in Parliament.
05 Jul 2019 12:03 PM
Breaking the tradition of carrying briefcase to the Parliament for presenting Budget, she posed outside the House with ledger book instead.
05 Jul 2019 12:01 PM
Udaan scheme will improve India's infrastructure, enable connectivity, and bridge the rural and urban divide,
05 Jul 2019 12:00 PM
There is also a proposal to increase minimum public shareholding in companies from 25 per cent to 35 per cent.
05 Jul 2019 11:55 AM
Indian economy has reached USD 2.7 trillion now, and is within capacity to reach USD 5 trillion in the next few years.
05 Jul 2019 11:50 AM
For years, finance minister and their deep maroon or brown briefcases holding budget were a common sight.
05 Jul 2019 10:13 AM