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Thursday, August 7, 2025
TopicBudget 2020

Topic: Budget 2020

Modi’s thalinomics approach to economy is a plate filled with confusion

Thalinomics shows Modi govt’s approach to economy — a little bit of this, a little bit of that, all mixed up together until you’re unsure what you’re eating.

Moody’s says Modi govt’s 10% GDP growth projection ambitious, scales it down to 8.7%

Moody's said the growth outlook remained weak given the structural and cyclical challenges facing India's economy.

Allahabad HC remarks in Chinmayanand hearing unwarranted, bound to prejudice case

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

India can’t have true reform in agriculture if we keep hitching it to rural development

The systematic marginalisation of agriculture in Indian economy, including by Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget, reveals why we can never fix it.

Raja Mohan unpacks India-US relations, Vyas on Budget’s ‘hyperbole’, Saran on new EU ties

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from C Raja Mohan, Shyam Saran, Kunal Bahl, Govinda Rao, Mahesh Vyas, Shruti Rajagopalan & many more

Modi govt’s new tax will mean more paperwork, costs for Indian students going abroad

Union Budget 2020 proposal to collect 5% tax on overseas remittances above Rs 7 lakh could increase short-term costs and paperwork for Indian students.

Budget has ‘encrypted’ growth strategy & Kejriwal versus ‘hate campaign’

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

Budget 2020 rules front pages, Express sees ‘creeping socialism’, Hindu on ‘bat hunters’

A round up of newspaper front pages from across the country.

Express worried by tax collection, Pratap B Mehta sees no road map, Panagriya on fiscal aims

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Modi’s Budget lures foreign capital but has precious little for Indians

Luring overseas investors to high-yielding Indian assets amid a global coronavirus scare is the preferred strategy of Modi’s Budget 2020.

On Camera

AI integration for military is risky business. Combat monopoly must remain with soldiers

The Army has plans for a technology thrust in the near term, including the use of AI to support decision-making. While well-intentioned, this may have unintended consequences.

Web of spoof sites, scam call centres. Crypto theft racket modus operandi in focus amid ED crackdown

As part of the crypto theft racket, businessman Chirag Tomar and his aides targeted 542 victims and managed to steal a total of Rs 19.9 million.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.