Budget 2013

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  Budget 2016: Lalu Prasad Calls PM Modi A 'Dull Student'

  Criticising the four-month compliance window announced for domestic black money holders in the Union budget, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad today called Prime Minister Narendra Modi "a dull student" who has been rusticated for "cheating and lying".

• Budget 2013: Chidambaram's 'Robin Hood' Budget: High earners say not fair

  High-earning Indians gave a collective groan when Finance Minister P Chidambaram imposed a 10 per cent surcharge on their income in his Budget 2013 on Thursday.

• Budget 2013: How you are affected

  Finance Minister P Chidambaram's eighth Budget was not a big bang affair, but analysts said he has quietly ensured that India's finances are in shape and the economy gets back on track even as the government gets into an election mode. The markets may have been unimpressed by the Budget, but the aam aadmi walked out with a better deal.

• Budget 2013: Will Chidambaram's ambitious revenue-expenditure math add up?

  Finance Minister P Chidambaram unveiled a surge in spending on Thursday, despite expectations of an austerity budget to shore up the government's finances, imposing new taxes on the rich and large companies to fund a dash for growth ahead of an election due by next year.

• India's budget disappoints, confuses foreign investors

  The Budget for 2013-14 disappointed foreign investors on Thursday by failing to deliver a much anticipated cut in withholding taxes for debt investments and creating confusion with a proposal that appeared to target tax treaties.

• Union Budget 2013: P Chidambaram does a balancing act, markets unimpressed

  P Chidambaram, shackled by the worst economic slowdown in a decade and the political demands of an election year, served a Budget 2013 today that has been described at best as balanced and pragmatic and, at worst, as disappointing and lacking substance.

• Union Budget 2013: Finance Minister P Chidambaram explains his budget

  Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who presented his eighth Budget in Parliament today, held a press conference.

• Say what? Chidambaram will use 'she,' not 'he,' in future

  Hours after presenting a Budget speech in which he used the word "women" 24 times, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said he intended "to use the word 'she' instead of 'he' in the future."

• Budget 2013: Carmakers reel from SUV tax hike

  A surprise hike in tax on SUVs in India risked hurting one of the only bright spots in the country's automotive market, sending industry shares falling on Thursday after a budget that offered little help for the struggling industry.

• Budget 2013: what it means for India's armed forces

  India has increased its budget for the armed forces by five percent. Sanctioning a little over Rs. 200,000 crore for this fiscal year, Finance Minister P Chidambaram promised Parliament that "constraints will not come in the way of providing any additional requirement for the security of the nation."

• Budget 2013: why Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar approves

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday hailed Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for promising to revisit criteria for special category status and said that it was a 'victory in-principle' for Bihar in view of its consistent demand for grant of such a status.

• Budget 2013: Nirbhaya Fund, with 1000-crores, to be used for women's safety

  The 23-year-old student whose fatal gang-rape on a moving bus in Delhi stirred national outrage and grief has inspired the government to create a special Rs. 1000-crore "Nirbhaya Fund," largely dedicated to improving women's safety, the Finance Minister said in Parliament today.

• Budget 2013: Unhappy markets at three-month low

  Budget 2013: P Chidambaram, shackled by the worst economic slowdown in a decade and the political demands of an election year, served a Budget 2013 today that has been described at best as balanced and pragmatic and at worst as disappointing and lacking substance. The Prime Minister said Mr Chidambaram had done a "commendable job", while RBI Deputy...

• Budget 2013: Manmohan Singh says it lays roadmap for investment

  Union Budget 2013: Hailing the budget, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said it would reverse the pessimistic mood and lay the roadmap for investments as he expressed confidence of returning to eight per cent growth within three years.

• Union budget 2013: Delhi Metro gets Rs 7,701 crore for Phase-III construction

  Delhi Metro on Thursday got a budgetary allocation of Rs 7,701 crore for construction of its ambitious Phase-III project that envisages extending the modern transport system further in the national capital.