Nirmala Sitharaman’s revenue efforts are a mix of progressive taxation, dipping into the petroleum sector to collect more taxes, and growing protectionism.
The idea for holding a WEF-like global investors’ meet is being mooted at a time the government is looking to attract more investments from overseas and spur economic growth.
The terms 'poor' & 'poverty' figured just once in Sitharaman's speech, as compared to 16 times in this year’s interim budget speech, 23 in 2018-19 and 22 in 2017-18.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
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.
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?
Not reformist, whatever else it may be.
Protectionist Modi murdabad socialist Modi murdabad.