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Union Minister for Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu addressing a press conference in Guntur on Tuesday | Photo Credit: T. Vijay Kumar The Union Budget, designed with the vision of a ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047, lays a strong foundation for the economic development of Andhra Pradesh, said Union Minister for Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Ram…
Former Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Former Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian on Monday (February 10, 2025) said while a part of India’s slowdown was cyclical, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s policies too had contributed to it. “For about two-and-a-half years till January 2025, RBI followed…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP P Chidambaram on Monday, while participating in the discussion on the Union budget in Rajya Sabha, asked the govt why former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was not conferred the Bharat Ratna this Republic Day.Praising Singh, who passed away on December 26, 2024, for his wisdom and farsightedness, the former home minister…
Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav, party MPs Dharmendra Yadav, Dimple Yadav and Anand Bhadauriya in the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session, in New Delhi on February 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI/Sansad TV Terming the Union Budget “pro-rich”, Opposition members in the Lok Sabha on Friday (February 7, 2025)…
Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu asserted that the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 was aimed at increasing the growth rate, for which various policy interventions were laid down. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, India was poised to emerge…
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: PTI The government has only committed to “half-hearted” steps of registering gig workers on e-SHRAM and including them under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, the Congress said on Sunday (February 2, 2025) and asserted that India needs a national legal and social security architecture…
Anti-Tobacco activists in Mysuru have expressed their disappointment over the failure of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget to either increase sin tax or a percentage increase in cess under National Calamity Contingent Duty (NCCD). In a statement in Mysuru, Convenor of Anti-Tobacco Forum, Mysuru, Vasanthkumar Mysoremath regretted that the “tobacco industry was smiling while every…
The Union Budget for 2025-26, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, is a mixed bag for Tamil Nadu. The DMK government’s slew of requests, including allocation of funds for the Chennai Metro Rail Project and disaster relief, did not find a mention in the Budget speech, while broader measures, including income tax benefits…
Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairperson, Aditya Birla Group, says the Budget also focuses on power sector revitalisation, particularly in electricity distribution and intra-State transmission. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Finance Ministers face a perennial balancing act when crafting Budgets. They must articulate the government’s broader policy vision while maintaining fiscal discipline — a task that is…
This Budget is the first step to Viksit Bharat 2047. Economists have stated that unless the GDP grows by 7.5% continuously for the next 25 years, the dream of Viksit Bharat will remain unrealised, and India will remain in the middle-income trap. With the backdrop of slowing growth (FY 2025 growth expected at 6.4%), India…
