Union Budget 2013

• 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.

• 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.

• Union Budget 2013: Mobile phones above Rs 2,000 set to cost more

  Mobile phones are set to become costlier with Finance Minister P Chidambaram raising excise duty to six per cent on handsets priced above Rs 2,000 in Budget 2013-14.

• Union Budget 2013: P Chidambaram's full speech

  Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented one of the most highly anticipated Indian budgets of recent years on Thursday, as the government looks to rein in a bloated fiscal deficit and restore confidence in Asia's third-largest economy. Full text of P Chidambaram's speech:

• Union Budget 2013: Chidambaram's 8th, India's 82nd budget

  Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday presented his eighth annual budget in Parliament, the second highest by anyone in the country after a record ten by former Prime Minister Morarji Desai.

• Union Budget 2013: Income tax slabs unchanged, rich to pay more

  Union Budget 2013: There are only 42,800 people in India who admit to having a taxable income of over Rs 100 crore a year, Finance Minister P Chidambaram noted today as he imposed a surcharge of 10 per cent on the income of the super-rich.

• Union Budget 2013: Rs 1000-crore fund for women's safety to be named after Delhi Braveheart

  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 fund, largely dedicated to improving women's safety, the Finance Minister said in Parliament today.

• Union Budget 2013: No change in income tax rates or slabs - highlights

  Finance Minister P Chidambaram is presenting his Budget 2013 in Parliament. The following are the highlights of his keenly-watched tax proposals:

• Budget 2013: Women's bank to open by October, promises Chidambaram

  Union Budget 2013: As part of his union budget, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today that India will set up a special Public Sector Unit bank solely for women, and to support businesses run by women.

• Union Budget 2013: P Chidambaram's buy-a-home incentive

  New consumers for home loans got a shot in the arm after Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced an additional deduction of Rs. 1 lakh on payment of interest (for self-occupied property) for homes below Rs. 25 lakh.

• Union Budget 2013: P Chidambaram calls for tough spending choices

  Union Budget 2013: India must make tough spending choices, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said on Thursday, as he unveiled one of the most highly anticipated budgets of recent years.

• Union Budget 2013: P Chidambaram begins his balancing act

  Union Budget 2013: Finance Minister P. Chidambaram today prefaced his much anticipated budget 2013 proposals by spelling out what he called his government's mantra - "higher growth leading to inclusive, sustainable development."

• Budget 2013: P Chidambaram reaches Parliament; will he deliver a gamechanger?

  Union Budget 2013: Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, red-brown Budget briefcase in hand, has reached Parliament, where he will present one of the most highly anticipated budgets of recent years at 11 am.