Aiyar expressed uneasiness over what he called a very high disinvestment target.

"Income from STT is only Rs 9000 crore compared to the gain of Rs 3,67,000 crore made from long-term capital gain"

"Because the world economy is booming, may be there will be some improvement on the job side."

Public investment allocation has gone up and we are hoping that that as long as private investment remains weak, that will fill in for some...

“I am not sure that is entirely true. As a political gambit, this is a very risky gambit. It is going to cause a lot of pain to everybody. ...

PM Modi has convened a meeting of over a dozen experts on Friday to discuss the state of Indian economy and seek their views on the upcomin...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley would conduct the meeting in which the Prime Minister will interact with economists and experts.

"I think that the mega trend is beyond the capacity of the RBI. "

Open criminality is going on in the real estate sector. This is happening because the state government and the ruling politicians are culpa...

Congress termed Nitish Kumar's demand for special category status as "contradictory" and said the JD(U) rally was "politically motivated".

"The markets were jittery yesterday because they perhaps misunderstood the meaning of a clause."

"If industrialists do not do investments after this budget, they might have to re-look at their animal spirits."

There has been a fair amount of conservatism built into this budget. The intent is very firmly to stay to the 4.8%.

Subtle and sound, it is a rare budget which simultaneously aims to satisfy both the investment community and also the voters.

"I also believe that probably the worst is over in the slowing of the international economy which has resulted in a fall in exports."

Swaminathan Aiyer in a chat with ET Now talks about the Budget.

There was broad consensus that the markets had misunderstood the FM and the reaction of the Sensex was seen more as an aberration than an i...