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Sunday, February 22, 2026
Topic2019 Budget

Topic: 2019 Budget

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

Andy Mukherjee -
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

R Jagannathan -
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

ThePrint Team -
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

Remya Nair -
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

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

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

Remya Nair -
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

Soham Sen -
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On Camera

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Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Stela Dey -
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Vaibhav Pant -
Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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