This Budget is an excellent vision statement to make India a $5-trillion economy. An intermediate goal has been announced for achieving a $3-trillion economy in this financial year.

Emphasis on infrastructure, micro, small and medium enterprises and Digital India are going to be key sectors for achieving 8 per cent growth.

Pension under Swatantrata Sainik Samman Yojna is available to a freedom fighter, his widow or unmarried daughters, the Delhi High Court has held while rejecting a plea for extending it to his widowed daughter.

Justice Vibhu Bakhru was informed by the Centre that the scheme is not available to married daughter of a freedom fighter.

Yes Bank indicated to the stock exchanges on Thursday that it has acquired shares of Eveready Industries amounting to 9.47% of the post-issue paid-up share capital after having invoked its pledged shares.

Yes Bank said it invoked the shares of Eveready Industries India following the default/breach of terms of credit facilities sanctioned by the bank to Mcleod Russel India, which is a group company of BM Khaitan Group.

State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) reported a near flat growth in production during the April-June quarter (Q1) this fiscal, although the top management was in favour of keeping a stiffer target despite the muted growth. The company reported a 0.1% growth in production to 136.96 million tonne (MT) in Q1, against 136.85 MT in the year-ago period.

ArcelorMittal’s `42,000-crore resolution plan for Essar Steel was on Thursday approved by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), but lenders are staring at a `20,000-crore hit after the appellate tribunal said operational creditors be given 60.7% of their admitted claims.

The lenders are expected to challenge the decision on the distribution of funds in the Supreme Court.

Tata Motors has cut by nearly 50% production of its hatchback Tiago and compact sedan Tigor since May, while also temporarily shutting down at least two production lines of commercial vehicles owing to high inventory at the dealers and little space left at the company stockyard, people aware of the development said.

In ordering a probe, CCI has acted upon complaints Maruti does not permit its dealers to give extra discount to their customers beyond an approved level and if a dealer is found doing so, penalty is levied depending upon the number of incidents found in a particular financial year.

In its order, the CCI has observed that Maruti has indulged in resale price maintenance by fixing the maximum discount which its dealers could offer to end-customers.

Adani Power on Thursday announced that it had acquired GMR Chhattisgarh Energy’s 1,370-MW plant for an enterprise value of `4,792 crore after the consortium of lenders, led by Axis Bank, approved the stake sale. This will be the third project to be resolved outside the insolvency route after Prayagraj Project of Jaiprakash Associates and SKS Power’s Binjkote project.

Ahead of Budget 2019, BSE Sensex breached the 40, 000 mark and was trading at 40,003 at 9.19 PM. Nifty too opened in the green and was trading at 11, 974 points, up 28 points.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the budget at 11 AM, and it will be interesting to see how the sensex reacts to the first budget of the Modi government,.

The government has ordered an investigation into grounded Jet Airways and its group companies for alleged diversion of funds, indulging in malpractices and other financial irregularities found during an inspection. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has directed the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to probe the stressed company’s affairs and summon its founder Naresh Goyal next week, a senior official confirmed.

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