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‘The Budget’s policy announcements and fiscal plans need closer scrutiny’ | Photo Credit: ANI The Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman’s presentation of the Union Budget on Saturday, February 1, was against the backdrop of pressing macroeconomic challenges — persistently high taxes and unemployment squeezing the middle-income class, subdued private investment, mounting external vulnerabilities that threaten…
**EDS: SCREENSHOT VIA SANSAD TV** New Delhi: Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Sansad TV via PTI Photo) (PTI02_11_2025_000198B) | Photo Credit: – Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday (February 11, 2025) said that the Union…
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…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took a jibe at the opposition saying that it was the first time since 2014, that there was no attempt to spark any “foreign interference” ahead of a Budget session.“This is perhaps the first session of Parliament since 2014, in which no foreign spark has flared up…
‘The budget for the Ministry of External Affair deserves closer scrutiny’ | Photo Credit: The Hindu When the Union Budget is presented every year, most of the public attention often centres on taxation, infrastructure, and defence. In this, however, the budget for India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) deserves closer scrutiny. Last year, the MEA…
India is on the rise, thanks to its consistent economic growth, political stability, and a bold, autonomous foreign policy. Whether it is the success of its G20 presidency, its strategic autonomy during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, its leadership in vaccine diplomacy during COVID-19, or its initiative in voicing the concerns of the Global South, India has…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the environment was now conducive globally and nationally for India’s progress and called upon the youth to draw inspiration from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose‘s life journey and focus on building a united and developed India.Highlighting Netaji’s emphasis on unity, and the need to sustain it to…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi “inherited a very fragile economy” – from the preceding Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government – and, while progress has been made to a ‘viksit (developed) Bharat’, more must be done, Dr Arvind Panagariya, 16th Finance Commission Chairperson, told NDTV. But assuming these challenges are overcome, that goal – a…
