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Budget 2013: Chidambaram nets big fish
Budgets presented in the run-up to elections, whether in the pre or post-reforms era, have tended to showcase how much the government is doing for the common man.

Union Budget 2013: Shockwaves on the Rich-ter scale, crorepatis clubbed with 10% surcharge blow
P Chidambaram decided to take a leaf out of the Warren Buffett rule book by whacking the wealthy with a rich tax, though he said it was only for the period of a year.

Union Budget 2013: Chidambaram has it covered for insurers
Insurance CEOs are excited about the proposals announced by the finance minister that make it easier to distribute policies.

Rail unions back Trivedi on fare hike

TNN | | Railway unions on Thursday came out strongly in support of Dinesh Trivedi who is set to lose his ministership with his party Trinamool Congress opposing the hike in passenger fares in the rail budget.

'Railway minister is not party's property'

TNN | | Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman on Thursday openly supported Dinesh Trivedi, his fellow MP who drew flak from Trinamool Congress after placing the railway budget.

Fare hike to raise funds for Didi's pet projects?

Jayanta Gupta | | Trivedi has not only decided to pump in over Rs 4,000 crore for the ongoing Metro projects in Kolkata, but funds for other ongoing works in the state.

Railway veterans laud Trivedi's budget

Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey | | Dinesh Trivedi's budget may have started a political drama, but veteran railwaymen unequivocally praised it, calling it the "only progressive railway budget" presented in the past decade.

I would present the same budget again: Dinesh Trivedi

PTI | | A day after proposing fare hike in the rail budget which has threatened his job, a defiant railway minister Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday said he would repeat the same if asked to present the budget again.

Govt denies receiving rail minister’s resignation

TNN | | Even as the government denied having received any resignation letter from railway minister Dinesh Trivedi in Rajya Sabha, it failed to prevent an adjournment in the Upper House as the opposition insisted on a reply from PM Manmohan Singh on the status of the rail budget.