Budget 2012: Look deeper into Finance Minister's big act

Meet Mr Congress System: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (read full article)

Pranab Mukherjee presented his first budget speech in 1982, when he had a full head of dark hair and puffed on Dunhill pipes. That year saw the release of Vidhaata, starring Dilip Kumar and the birth of actress Priyanka Chopra. Thirty years later, he delivered his seventh budget speech. The hair has thinned and what remains is greying. The pipe is long gone. The world, especially India, has changed.

What Budget 2012 have for Vijay Mallya, Naresh Goyal, Anil Ambani & other barons in trouble (read full article)

This year's budget was important to some like no other. ET on Sunday finds out what the budget had for each of their businesses. Recent months have been tumultuous for tycoons such as Vijay Mallya and Anil Ambani, who are the faces of the businesses they head. Their once booming businesses have been struggling under the weight of factors ranging from cutthroat competition to a harsh economic environment.

What Budget 2012 implies for jobs, education, startups, travel, shopping & more (read full article)

A Deloitte-ET on Sunday deep forensic analysis of the budget teases out the implications for jobs, education, startups, travel, shopping & more. More jobs are likely to be available in industries like oil and gas pipelines & storage, telecommunication networks & towers etc. Upcoming NIMZs in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan will create jobs in these states.


Union Budget 2012: Opium trade tucked away among the budget papers (read full article)

In the budget documents there is always a figure which is never mentioned by the finance minister (FM) in his speech, but which once would have been an important part of it. This is the receipts from the opium and alkaloid factories which can be found tucked away among the non-tax revenues.

Read more articles on Budget from ET Sunday

- Service Tax on centuries? See, para 163, page 28 of Budget speech

- Why lawyers have all but accepted a tax on them

- Winners & Losers: How Budget 2012 played out within key sectors

- Why it’s time the budget do something for startups

- Meet the right man in wrong job: Kaushik Basu never cut out to be govt economist

- Mamata Bannerjee the product of Bengal’s current, toxic political culture?