What looked like a light-hearted campaign moment during PM Narendra Modi’s West Bengal trail has now turned into a major fiscal concern aft...

Indian villages are achieving financial independence. Gram panchayats are boosting tax collections and using their own funds for schools, f...

Kerala's economy grew by 6.19 percent in 2024-25. Per-person income also increased, surpassing the national average. However, public debt s...

Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh must cut unproductive expenditures, says Krishnamurthy V Subramanian. The for...

Chhattisgarh, one of the poorest states in the country, is the second best in overall fiscal health scorecard after Maharashtra, and ahead ...

Indian states' offer of 'economically unsustainable' sops like farm loan waivers, and restoring old pension systems is a matter of concern,...

Responding to a query on the rising fiscal deficit, Shah said: “It’s not the fiscal deficit numbers but the quality of fiscal deficit that ...

The finance minister in her July Budget reduced the fiscal deficit target to 3.3 per cent from an earlier 3.4 per cent for 2019-20. Keeping...

There is a wide divergence in the fiscal deficit of the individual states.

The ratings firm expects the aggregate fiscal deficit of states to come in higher at 3.2% in FY'20 than the agency’s forecast of 2.8% in it...

The consolidated state government budget is nearly 40per cent above the Union Budget for FY19

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee may have to wait for a grand package to help her tide over the state's acute financial problems.

The fiscal consolidation programme initiated by the Centre is not making the same degree of progress among states. Some states have been fu...

Accusing the Thirteenth Finance Commission of constitutional trespass, Kerala plans to challenge in the Supreme Court the panel’s deficit r...

Kerala's revenue deficit for 2008-09 has been placed at Rs 3,367 crore according to the Economic Review presented in the state assembly.

Kerala's revenue and fiscal deficit has shown a declining trend in the last four years even as the public debt continues to increase touchi...

Sounding alarm bells that the Common Minimum Programme of the government is a recipe for higher fiscal deficit, economists have asked P Chi...