BUSINESS
Amid push for Employment Linked Incentive schemes, PLI allocations double in FY25
Allocations to production linked incentive schemes in FY25 rose to nearly Rs 12,500 crore
BUSINESS
Where is India’s capex going?
Five ministries will corner over 90 percent of capex jump
BUSINESS
Markets are not kind to Budgets: Moneycontrol analysis
A Moneycontrol analysis shows that markets have trended lower after Budget presentation on 13 of the last 18 occasions.
BUSINESS
What government earns and where does it spend?
The reliance on borrowings and other liabilities has also reduced in FY25
BUSINESS
Fiscal prudence continues: Budget 2024 in 10 charts
Fiscal deficit target set at 4.9 percent for FY25, lower than 5.1 percent in the interim budget
BUSINESS
Ratio of defence capex spending climbs a decadal high in FY25, shows Budget data
The government has set an ambitious target to more than triple defence production to Rs 3 lakh crore by FY29 and increase exports to Rs 50,000 crore
BUSINESS
India GDP Growth Forecast: FM pegs nominal GDP growth at 10.5%
India’s nominal GDP expanded 9.6% in FY24 from 14.2% in the previous year.
BUSINESS
Ayushman Bharat gets Rs 7,300 crore in union Budget
Outlay for the scheme receives another boost, as government extends more benefits to senior citizens
BUSINESS
MGNREGA gets Rs 86,000 crore for FY25
The allocation is a xx percent drop from the over Rs 90,000 crore the government had spent on the programme in the previous year
BUSINESS
FM Sitharaman keeps FY25 capex target unchanged at Rs 11.11 lakh crore in Budget 2024
The government will end up spending about 3.5 percent of the Budget on capex compared with 3.2 percent in the previous year.
BUSINESS
Budget 2024:Gender Budget reaches highest level since FY11
Govt to spend over Rs 3 lakh crore on gender budget for the first time, marking an xx percent increase over the previous year
BUSINESS
Key government schemes to watch out for in Budget 2024
Budget 2024 Schemes:Agriculture output was a tepid 1.4 percent in FY24 compared with 4.7 percent in the previous year, even as the economy roared with 8.2 percent growth
BUSINESS
How much extra money FM Sitharaman has and where she can spend it in Budget 2024
High tax collections and a one-time bounty from the central bank place the FM in a very comfortable position
BUSINESS
Statistics quality an underlying theme of the survey
State-level variants of indices like IIP will help understand the emerging geographical patterns, according to Economic Survey 2024.
BUSINESS
Economic Survey in 10 charts: Stability, inclusivity central to 2047 Viksit Bharat vision
It also stressed the need to sustain structural reform momentum to accelerate growth to more than 7% in the longer term.
BUSINESS
Consumer price index base to be revised to 2024; producer price index to be expedited
WPI, CPI estimates are over a decade old
BUSINESS
Private capital formation slows down amid caution over cheaper imports: Economic Survey
With healthy balance sheets, banking and financial sector was well poised to cater to growing financing needs
BUSINESS
PLI scheme expansion will help lower trade deficit
India’s current account deficit reduced to 0.7 percent of the GDP in FY24, from 2 percent in the previous year, the Economic Survey said
BUSINESS
India must strike right balance in goods and capital imports from China: Economic Survey 2023-24
India slipped seven ranks to 15 in the World Investment Ranking in 2023
BUSINESS
Short-term inflation outlook benign, says Economic Survey
The central bank expects headline inflation to be 4.5 per cent in FY25 and 4.1 per cent in FY26, the survey says
BUSINESS
India needs to add 7.9 million jobs annually till 2030, says Economic Survey 2023-24
The total additions to the workforce at 46.7 million in 2023-24 were the highest since 1981-82, with the rate of growth at 6 percent also outpacing the previous three decades
EDUCATION
Doha sticks to 'my place, my choice' motto, tops overseas centres in NEET score
Southeast Asia had better performance, albeit with fewer students, with a clearing rate of 3.1 percent, while Middle East’s clearance rate was 2.9 percent.
EDUCATION
North West outsmarts rest of India with most students scoring above 600 in NEET
Rajasthan has the highest percentage of students securing 600 plus, with nearly 8 percent among the total appearing candidates scoring well
TRENDS
MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Rainfall deficit narrows further to 1%
Ten states faced deficient rainfall conditions, 16 have got normal rainfall until July 21
