Reacting over the Union Budget, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday termed it as

Nikhil Gulati
July 6: There is very little for the auto industry to cheer about in this year

The government announced an increase of 144 per cent in the allocation for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the UPA government

The first Budget of the second UPA Government at the Centre failed to look at the specific requirements of Kerala, for which detailed representations had been made by the Parliament members from the State, but Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee did make some decent allocations for infrastructure and development projects in the State.

Pawan Bali and Parul Chandra
July 6: Clearly with an eye on the coming Assembly elections in Maharashtra, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee offered it significant help, including a task force to help farmers who failed to benefit from the Centre

K.A. Badarinath
July 6: Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has performed a fine balancing act in his Budget, working within revenue constraints and yet ensuring high spending by the government to put the country on an accelerated growth track.

The Union Budget for this year, presented in the Lok Sabha on Monday, marks a "deepening and broadening" of the UPA

THE budget speech contains hardly anything about climate change, said environmentalists, who have rubbished the pronouncements of the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as nothing specific

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While the government continues to please the "aam aadmi" with its yearly budget, environmentalists are not so impressed and believe that the bigger picture might be different.