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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicBudget 2019

Topic: Budget 2019

Confident of return, Modi govt nudges finance ministry to work on budget & Economic Survey

Senior finance ministry officials have started discussions with ministries and departments to work on the budget & Economic Survey. Focus is on social and rural sectors.

Why Modi govt’s budget looks more like a Patanjali product designed by Ramdev

Be it women and children’s health or farmers’ crops or ex-servicemen’s OROP, Piyush Goyal’s interim budget slashed hope on every front

RBI does its bit to compliment Modi govt’s budget sops for farmers

RBI raises cap on collateral-free agricultural loans to Rs 1.6 lakh from Rs 1 lakh — move to benefit all farmers who were left out from budget proposals.

Job plan is missing link in Modi govt’s last budget amid drama over data

Much of the interim budget focused on consumer stimulus with few specific measures to create opportunities for about 12 million young Indians who enter the job market each year.

The arithmetic of this election year interim budget is questionable

Overstatement of revenue and understatement of expenditure is a constant problem with Indian budgets.

This is where Modi govt is getting its money from for budget giveaways

Slew of measures in budget will cost exchequer over Rs 94,000 cr, for which govt is banking on higher RBI surplus, better disinvestment and corporate tax.

Metro projects get 25% more in this year’s Housing and Urban Affairs budget

The Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has been allocated Rs 48,000 crore, 17 per cent more than last year's provision.

Budget an imitation of Rythu Bandhu scheme, says KT Rama Rao

Rama Rao targeted the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi which will help farmers owning less than two hectares of land.

Budget stumps opposition but euphoria in the BJP camp misplaced

The Modi dispensation still has to contend with the lack of jobs narrative and the growing OBC, SC/ST consolidation over the upper caste quota.

How to pay zero tax on income of upto Rs 10 lakh, thanks to Piyush Goyal’s budget

After today’s interim budget announcement, a person earning upto Rs 10 lakh can pay zero income tax with smart financial management.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.