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Sunday, November 3, 2024
TopicBudget 2020

Topic: Budget 2020

To meet fiscal deficit target, Sitharaman’s Budget leaves out some expenditure

Govt has provided Rs 30,000 cr as against Rs 74,340 cr proposed by 15th finance commission, towards revenue deficit grants to states & has made no allocation for bank recapitalisation.  

PM Modi says India won’t waste time now, budget will help achieve $5 trillion target

Noting that only 2,200 people in the country had declared earnings of Rs 1 crore per annum, PM Modi called on citizens to honestly pay their dues to ensure India's development.

AAP victory trumps hyper-nationalism, says Express & governance new nationalism, says TOI

Santosh Desai, Satish Deshpande, Suhas Palshikar on AAP's landslide victory in Delhi and Shankar Acharya, Nirvikar Singh on Budget 2020.

This UP town sells IAS-IPS dream to lakhs without caring for the reality of a lack of jobs

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Jagran calls for coronavirus antidote, Bhaskar criticises ‘bitter’ Delhi election campaigns

A weekend round up of editorial comment in leading Hindi newspapers on the most topical issues of the day.

Modi hasn’t done so badly on the economy. But more needs to be done on many fronts

Modi & his Cabinet need to get over their hostility to criticism, and frontally address the jobs problem as it is central to tackling the growing inequality.

RBI sticks to script, holds rates due to inflation and fiscal deficit

RBI projects growth for 2020-21 at 6%. Repo rate retained at 5.15% and reverse repo rate at 4.9%.

India’s defence forces can’t wait for Modi’s $5-trillion economy dream. Slowdown is hurting

Armed forces’ modernisation is languishing for two decades. We need to enhance the defence budget to a sustained rate of 3-4 per cent of the GDP.

Unlike India, China built its economy & military before calling itself a world power

Ever since PM Modi came to office, his government has prioritised social reengineering over economic growth. Look where that led us.

Modi govt has tried to stimulate economy without creating future crisis: Expenditure Secy

Speaking to ThePrint, Expenditure Secretary T.V. Somanathan says borrowings through extra-budgetary resources have increased but Modi govt has been transparent in disclosing it.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.