Union Budget 2014

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  "1st Time Since 2014 - No Foreign Interference Before Parliament Session": PM Modi's Jab At Opposition

  This is the first time since 2014 that there was no "videshi chingari (foreign interference)" ahead of a Parliament session, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a quip at the opposition ahead of the Budget Session this morning.

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  "Get Over 'Indira Is India' Hangover": Minister's Dig At Rahul Gandhi

  Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday slammed Congress and the governments led by the party before 2014, saying they have to get out of "Indira is India" belief to understand that there are no two Indias.

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  To Promote Budget, PM Modi Suggests "Lunch Pe Charcha" To Party Lawmakers

  After the "chai pe charcha" campaign during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked his party MPs to hold "lunch pe charcha" to spread the good points of the Union Budget 2018-19 among the people.

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  Spending Spree Unlikely In Last Full Budget Before Elections, Say Analysts

  Fiscal consolidation was first proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in its maiden budget in fiscal year 2014/15, aiming to break a long line of governments that preferred to borrow and spend.

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  Presenting Budget 2015 in 10 Tweets

  In the age of 140 characters, here's how Twitter dissected the budget.

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  Amendments to Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act Likely: Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu

  Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today indicated that the Centre may take up the issue of introducing amendments to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014 during the forthcoming budget session of Parliament.

• Parliament to Pass Union Budget Before July 31

  Racing against time, the budgetary exercise this time will be fast-tracked so as to ensure that the Finance Bill 2014-15 is passed before July 31. The debate on the Budget in the Lok Sabha will begin tomorrow and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is expected to reply to it by July 18.

• Budget Only Beginning, I Did Whatever I Could Do: Arun Jaitley

  Brushing aside criticism of not having done enough reforms in the Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said this was the beginning of the journey and he did all he could do under the given circumstances.

• Budget 2014 Has Many Nice Words, Some Money but No Direction: Eco Body

  An environment think tank yesterday said although the union budget had "many nice words and some money" but it failed to show any direction for "real change."

• Union Budget Hikes Allocation for Delhi Police

  Delhi Police will get Rs 4653.19 crore for the next fiscal under the union budget, an increase of nearly Rs 400 crore from the last budget, aimed at sprucing up training of its personnel and traffic infrastructure.

• Rs 700 Crore Allocated for Power, Water Reforms in Delhi

  A total of Rs 700 crore was allocated on Thursday in the Union Budget for carrying out reforms in power and water sectors in the national capital.

• Budget 2014: Duty on Cigarettes, Tobacco Hiked

  When Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in his budget speech, "I propose to increase the specific excise duty on cigarettes in the range of 11 percent to 72 percent", little did he know the impact it would have.

• Budget 2014: Regret Not Being Able to Give More to Taxpayers, Arun Jaitley Tells NDTV

  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said this evening he wished he could have given India's vast tax-paying middle class a "little more."

• Budget 2014 'positive signal' to foreign investors: Lord Swraj Paul

  London-based Indian origin industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has praised the union budget.

• Opinion: A Budget Utterly Lacking in Boldness

  Where are the promised big reforms, asks AAP's Ashutosh.