The decisions were announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Rajya Sabha

Top takeaways from Union Budget 2018

The facility has been extended to pensioners also.

Budget 2018: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announces 'no change' in personal income tax slabs

In all aspects, the budget is a populistic one and the projects indicate the seriousness with which the government is approaching Mission 2019.

Opinion: Jaitley places Union Budget with an eye on 2019 general election

Operation Green will help promote farmer produce organisations

Budget 2018: Government to launch 'Operation Green', allots Rs 500 crore  

While announcing the last full budget of NDA government, Jaitley said that the scheme will connect 56 unserved airports and 31 unserved helipads.

'Hawai chappal to Hawai safar': Govt expands scope of UDAN scheme in Budget 2018

Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is a scheme of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas for providing LPG connections to women from Below Poverty Line (BPL) households.

Budget 2018: Free LPG connection scheme to cover 8 crore poor women, says Jaitley

The lack of jobs has been one of the harshest -- if not the harshest -- criticism against the current NDA government

Budget 2018: Jaitley promises 70 lakh new formal jobs in 2018-19

Government proposes to launch 'Operation Greens' on the lines of 'Operation Flood', Jaitley said.

Budget 2018: What Jaitley announced for farmers, agricultural sector

Reiterating the government’s commitment to farmers, the finance minister said minimum support prices for Kharif crops will be one and a half times of the cost of production.

Budget 2018: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley focuses on agriculture, allocates 14.34 trillion rupees for rural infrastructure

The Mumbai suburban have been allocated additional Rs 11,000 crore for doubling of the tracks on an additional 90 km stretch.

Budget 2018: All railway stations, trains to have CCTVs, Wi-Fi, says Arun Jaitley

'When we took over, India was considered one of the fragile five. We have successfully reversed this, India is now among the fastest growing economies in the world,' Jaitley said

Budget 2018: India went from fragile five economies to fastest-growing five, says Jaitley

'Indian economy is on course to achieve high growth of 8 %. Economy to grow at 7.2-7.5% in second half of 2018-19,' Jaitley said

Budget 2018: India on course to grow at 8%, says Jaitley

The finance minister said the government would do everything it can to stop cryptocurrencies being used to fund illegitimate transactions

Budget 2018: Government does not consider cryptocurrencies legal tender, says Jaitley

The actresses feel that the entertainment tax levied currently is too high

Budget 2018: Kajol, Richa Chadda want the entertainment industry to be 'tax-free'

Fiscal deficit has a bearing on sovereign rating of the country as well as the debt market.

Budget 2018: Govt misses fiscal deficit target; higher at 3.5% in FY'18

This will be the last full year Budget of the Narendra Modi government before elections in 2019

To strike chord with rural India, Jaitley delivers Budget speech in mix of Hindi & English

Jaitley is presenting the last full budget of NDA government.

Budget 2018 focusses on rising pollution in Delhi-NCR, Jaitley assures special measures

Fresh positions created by retail and domestic institutional investors on hopes of an investor-friendly and growth-oriented budget lifted the sentiment, brokers said.

Sensex surges over 200 points as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents Budget

Arun Jaitley presented his fifth Budget today

Budget 2018: 'Jaitley looted us', middle class reacts

Finance Minister may think of putting some concessional rate on the long-term capital gains but maybe an exception could be made for small investors.

Opinion: Union Budget should ensure long-term investment to boost Indian economy

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget 2018 in Parliament today. Continuing with the trend from last year, the Railways Budget was included in the general Budget.

Watch: Key highlights of Budget 2018

While presenting the budget Finance minister said that the special focus has been placed on strengthening rural, agriculture economy and announced 10 trillion rupees to 11 trillion rupees credit for agricultural activities

Budget 2018: Manmohan Singh says doubling farmers' income is not possible

The finance minister said the Ujjawala Yogana has been successful so increasing the budgetary allocation was needed

Don't know about Obamacare but 'Modicare' can definitely become successful: Jaitley

Industry experts believe the budget will focus on rural distress. Job programmes, irrigation projects, and improvement of health infrastructure in rural India are expected to get a push

Budget 2018: All eyes on Jaitley's briefcase, here's what to expect