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Saturday, August 16, 2025
Topic2019 Budget

Topic: 2019 Budget

Modi govt’s stimulus plan for economy falls short on vision

India is still waiting interminably for larger firms to be allowed to flourish, smaller firms to get cheap financing & state to retreat from business.

Modi won’t win in 2024, unless these nine economic follies are reversed

In 2024 Lok Sabha election, it will be good economics that will deliver PM Modi a good political outcome. He needs advisers he will listen to.

Ex-Telegraph editor Aveek Sarkar loses security cover, Punjab Kesri editor gets a downgrade

Pre-Truth – snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

2 weeks after budget, stock markets in free-fall, Rs 2.8 lakh crore market cap wiped out

Nirmala Sitharaman’s refusal to offer any respite to foreign portfolio investors from the super-rich tax has made the markets slump to a 2-month low.

Modi govt’s tax for super-rich snares unsuspecting foreign investors

Tax officials have suggested that global funds convert themselves from trusts to corporates as a way to avoid paying the higher surcharge.

Govt will clarify on foreign portfolio investors surcharge soon

Central Board of Direct Taxes Chairman P C Mody said the govt will soon issue a clarification on the increase in tax rate on foreign portfolio investors.

NBFCs will soon be out of the woods as funds flow eases, economic affairs secretary says

RBI can now supersede boards of NBFCs, remove their top management, and audit accounts of group firms by seeking financial statements.

PM derides ‘professional pessimists’, Congress’ crisis continues

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

SC’s stray dog order lit a match in Delhi. Are they a menace or companions?

The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?