Nearly 7% of the current Indigo flights are grounded because the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) all A-320 Neos fitted with PW1100 engines beyond ESN 450 to be grounded with immediate effect. This announcement was made by the DGCA citing safety reasons after repeated engine problems were found. PW engines are manufactured by Pratt …
When the government announced its H1 borrowing programme for 2018-19, two things stood out. Firstly, the first half borrowing in the coming fiscal is likely to be sharply lower than what the government had budgeted in the previous years. Secondly, with the risk of rising bond yields still rampant, the government has decided to focus …
Quite often the trade deficit and the current account deficit (CAD) are used interchangeably. There is a subtle difference between the two. While trade deficit refers to the excess of merchandise imports over merchandise exports, the CAD looks at the net effect of trade in services and remittances too. The CAD is a more revealing …
When Ultratech Cements, owned by the Kumaramangalam Birla Group, made an aggressive Rs.7266 counter bid for Binani Cements, it not only set a new price benchmark for Binani Cements but also called into question many of the accepted tenets of dealing through the NCLT. While the last word has not been said on that Binani …
When the US Federal Reserve meeting concluded on Wednesday, there was little by way of surprise as the 25 basis points hike was already factored in. The debate was more over whether the Fed would guide for 3 rate hikes or 4 rate hikes during the calendar year 2018. With this hike, the Fed has …
On the 28th of February, the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation (MOSPI) released the GDP estimates for the 3rd quarter ended December 2017. Of course, these estimates are subject to revision at a later date. As per the second advance estimates for the third quarter, the GDP growth stood at 7.2%, which is higher …
The Union Budget 2018 presented by Arun Jaitley was in the strict sense of the word a macro budget. It takes a look at the big picture and focuses on the larger aspects like the farm distress, the MSME sector, rural purchasing power, middle class and the senior citizens etc. It may be recollected that …
Union budget 2018 has actually been a big picture budget. It has not been about the nuances of taxes and levies but it has been more about the macro issues and the focus areas for the government from an economic perspective. The following new initiatives in the Union Budget are critical from the long term …
The Union Budget speech would be typically divided into two parts. The first part would contain all the government allocations and resources and the second part contained the key changes pertaining to direct and indirect taxes. Effective July 2017, most of the indirect taxes including excise duty, VAT, CENVAT, Sales Tax and Service Tax were …
A popular joke ahead of the Union Budget is that the text of the Union Budget 2018 will be substantially shorter and hence the budget speech could be over in less than 1 hour. Each year, a good part of the Budget speech was devoted by the finance minister to elaborate on the changes in …
