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Budget 2013 will create a feel-good atmosphere: KV Kamath, chairman Infosys, says.
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India must make tough spending choices, FM said, even as he unveiled a bigger-than-expected outlay for the coming fiscal year. Here are the highlights.
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The government on Thursday announced the setting up of a special Nirbhaya Fund for women's safety with a corpus of Rs 1,000 crore.
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The government on Thursday hiked defence spending to Rs 203,672 crore, marking an increase of five per cent over the outlay of 2012-13 at Rs 193,407 crore.
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The country is all set to get an all-women bank by this year with the government announcing an initial capital of Rs 1,000 crore for the purpose.
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Finance minister P Chidambaram today announced a sharp increase of Rs 1.25 lakh crore in agriculture credit target to Rs 7 lakh crore for next fiscal and allocated additional Rs 10,000 crore in subsidy for implementing the Food Security Bill.
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Inflation, fiscal deficit, current account deficit are three basic challenges to economy; need multi-pronged strategy to tackle them: PM
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"The finance minister has done a commendable job in containing the deficit while simultaneously addressing the growth imperatives."
-PM Manmohan Singh
01:34 PM
FM has laid out a roadmap with regard to investments, says PM.
