Fiscal Deficit Budget

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  Guns Over Growth? Pak Hikes Defence Budget By 20%, Slashes Overall Spending

  Pakistan, whose overall debt has increased to nearly PKR 76,000 billion (approx USD 270 billion) in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, seems to be prioritising its military spending over development.

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  Fiscal Deficit, GDP, Tax Reforms And More: 10 Budget Keywords

  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2025 on Saturday. The Budget is a crucial document that contains information about the government's financial policies, expenditure plans, and revenue for the next fiscal y

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  Country On Track To Achieve 4.5% Fiscal Deficit, Says Finance Minister

  Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said the government is on track to achieve the target of 4.5 per cent fiscal deficit by 2025-26.

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  "Debt Must Be Reduced Without Affecting Growth": Nirmala Sitharaman On Fiscal Deficit

  For a growing economy to meet its needs and aspirations, borrowing is a must, but the focus of the finance ministry under her is to ensure that debt is reduced without affecting growth, Nirmala Sitharaman has told NDTV.

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  Focus On Vande Bharat, Not On Trains For Poor? What Railway Minister Said

  India struck a balance between greater spending on jobs and rural development as well as transferring more funds to states, while narrowing the fiscal deficit, the 2024-25 budget unveiled on Tuesday showed. It though was silent on the Railways.

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  Fiscal Deficit Estimated At 4.9% Of GDP: Nirmala Sitharaman In Budget Speech

  Presenting the Union Budget for 2024-25, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced that the fiscal deficit for the year is estimated at 4.9 per cent of GDP.

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  Exclusive: PM Modi Reveals "Surprise" Element In Election-Year Interim Budget

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an exclusive interview to NDTV explained his model of social welfare schemes, which, while keeping a check on fiscal deficit, can also empower the poor to climb out of poverty.

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  "Sweet Spot, Many Job Opportunities": PM's Shout-Out For Interim Budget

  Praising his government's last Budget ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the capital expenditure will touch a record high of Rs 11,11,111 crore while keeping the fiscal deficit in check, achieving a "sweet spot".

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  Rural Welfare And Infra Push: What To Expect From Pre-Election Budget

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely use India's last budget before the elections to woo voters with new spending measures, while avoiding a fiscal deficit increase.

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  Budget 2024: What To Expect From This Year's Budget

  Ahead of the Union Budget 2024, experts and analysts have come up with different predictions on the government's move on fiscal deficit, taxation and the spending on welfare schemes. As several global financial services firms have predicted

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  Budget 2023 Highlights: Budget 2023 Focuses On Women, Middle Class, Says Nirmala Sitharaman

  Union Budget 2023 was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today which unveiled one of its biggest jumps in capital spending in the past decade and said the fiscal deficit would fall next year.

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  Rupee At All-Time Low, Finance Ministry Sources Say Not Due To Economy

  Despite the decision to extend the free ration scheme for the seventh time, the fiscal deficit will still meet the budget target of 6.4 per cent of the GDP for this year, a Finance Ministry official added.

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  Pakistan Hikes Fuel Prices To Unlock IMF Funding

  The price hike has been the main issue between Pakistan and the IMF as part of an agreement to withdraw subsidies in oil and power sectors to reduce the fiscal deficit before the annual budget is presented next month.

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  Pakistan Hikes Fuel Prices To Unlock IMF Funding

  The price hike has been the main issue between Pakistan and the IMF as part of an agreement to withdraw subsidies in oil and power sectors to reduce the fiscal deficit before the annual budget is presented next month.

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  Tamil Nadu Tables Interim Budget Ahead Of Assembly Elections

  Ahead of the Tamil Nadu assembly elections likely in April, the AIADMK government in the state today presented an interim budget for 2021-22 with the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to a higher fiscal deficit of over Rs 84,000 crore.