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India’s Buddhist nuns you don’t hear about: Landladies, loan sharks, merchants

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
Voices of Buddhist women have been lost to us. But new research reveals they had brilliant commercial and religious minds, and shaped the financial fortunes of the Buddhist sangha.
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Budget 2023, BBC, Bageshwar Dham have a common link – being ‘high’ on TV channels’ agenda

Shailaja Bajpai -
On Times Now, one ‘expert’ saw conspiracies everywhere: he alleged that the BBC employs a 'disproportionate' number of Pakistanis. Ahem.
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Budget 2023 energising debates on defence spending but Indian police left begging

+TFP Praveen Swami -
For years, experts have argued the case for rethinking the Centre-state relationship regarding the police. The time to debate police financing is running out.
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Budget 2023 takes a leap in reducing India’s fiscal deficit

Mukesh Butani -
Measures announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Budget 2023 are clearly not populist, which has been the convention.
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Some hits and misses for India’s agricultural sector in Budget 2023

Shweta Saini -
A dedicated fund for start-ups in rural India is a much-needed thrust but Budget 2023 has unexpectedly slashed allocation to the agriculture ministry and reduced funds for MGNREGA by 33%.
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How the new tax regime encourages long-term savings like Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana

Soumya Kanti Ghosh -
The transition to a new tax regime will be a smart move by existing taxpayers in search of simplicity and more disposable income.
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Wetlands can help reach sustainable goals but not all of them are blue carbon ecosystems

Benno Böer -
To shed light onto the complexity of the carbon sink capacities of wetlands, it is highly important to differentiate capacities within and between ecosystems.
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Bharat Jodo Yatra gives Rahul Gandhi second chance, has killed ‘foolish dilettante’ image

Vir Sanghvi -
There was no way a flailing dynast could have taken on a leader like Narendra Modi. But now, with the change in the way he is perceived, Rahul Gandhi finally has a shot.
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Aditya Chopra is no longer a rumour. He is about to turn real in Netflix’s The Romantics

Nidhima Taneja -
The best of Bollywood, including Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, and Aamir Khan will feature in the Netflix series.
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How Sitharaman can live up to her Budget promise of KYC simplification

Renuka Sane -
Our response to KYC problems has been to bring technology to streamline processes. The problem is that they often don’t work as well as one would have hoped.
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Economy

How Maharashtra plans to make Mumbai & satellite towns a 250...

Manasi Phadke -
Maharashtra govt's goal is to eventually make the state a trillion-dollar economy. For this, it’s pushing to boost the economy of its most valued asset — the Mumbai Metropolitan Area.

Defence

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Budget 2023: Defence gets 13% more than last yr. Pensions &...

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Capital budget increased to Rs 1.62 lakh crore from 1.52 lakh crore. Navy, Army see substantial increase but allocation for procuring aircraft, aero engines goes down.

National Interest

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Market has won & now it’s for Adani to decide whether...

Shekhar Gupta -
If the political establishment responds to a situation like this as if it’s something that must only play out between a corporate & the market, it's coming of age of Indian capitalism.

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