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Board evaluations mustn’t just be tick-the-box exercises

4 min read . Updated: 30 Mar 2021

Income Tax Department considers only Form 26AS while giving TDS benefit to taxpayers. Photo: Mint

For individual taxpayers, no big relief in budget

4 min read . Updated: 03 Feb 2021

Expenditure secretary TV Somanathan. (Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint)

Decision on jab funding will be made by 31 March: TV Somanathan

4 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (Bloomberg)

Opinion | Budget 2021: Gunning for growth

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Opinion | A reassuring Budget focused on growth, investment & jobs

4 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

The finance minister had the onerous task of igniting growth in the economy and get India back to 8-9% growth levels (Bloomberg)

Absence of covid cess, no increase in income tax slabs come as a huge relief

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

The government has been pushing for ethanol production with surplus sugar production depressing sugar prices and consequently increasing the dues of sugarcane farmers

Budget offers no relief for farm sector in distress

4 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

A file photo of Industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla (Photo: Mint)

The fiscal stance creates space for transformation

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (C) stands next to Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur (3rd L) as she leaves her office to present the federal budget in the parliament in New Delhi, India, February 1 (REUTERS)

This could well be the ’91 moment for the NDA Government

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman. (Ajay Aggarwal /HT PHOTO) (HT_PRINT)

‘We’re committed to reforms’

9 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Higher deficit in both years is for good reasons. In FY21, it is to clear the mounting arrears on food subsidy (REUTERS)

Govt is correct to shed conservative fiscal strategy

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

EDS PLS TAKE NOTE OF THIS PTI PICK OF THE DAY:::: New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the post-budget press conference, at National Media Centre in New Delhi, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. (PTI Photo/Arun Sharma)(PTI02_01_2021_000179A)(PTI02_01_2021_000273A) (PTI)

Budget 2021 offers a blueprint for sustained growth

2 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2021-22 in Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: ANI/ LSTV Grab)

FM delivers what we craved for

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Zarin Daruwala, Chief Executive, India, Standard Chartered Bank

Clear pivot towards growth bringing together pragmatism with realism

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo: PTI)

A credible budget in an extremely tough environment

4 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

The finance minister’s mixed bag of several hits and some misses

4 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Detractors will whine but this is a spectacular budget

4 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2021-22 in Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Monday. (ANI Photo/ LSTV Grab)

A holistic approach to health is welcome, but much more needs to be done

4 min read . Updated: 01 Feb 2021

$An office worker walks past a digital screen showing \Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivering the budget speech in parliament, at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), in Mumbai on Monday (AFP)$ Premium

Budget 2021: When offense is the best form of defense

3 min read . Updated: 01 Feb 2021

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman addressing a Post Budget Press Conference, in New Delhi on Monday. (ANI Photo/R Raveendran)

FM presses the right buttons with focus on health, PSU sales and banking

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

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