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Wednesday, October 1, 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

Jana Sangh leader VK Malhotra brought Advani to Delhi, kept the party afloat after 1984 setback

Unlike his colleagues from the time of the BJS, several of whom became governors and held other constitutional posts, Malhotra chose to lead a quiet and simple retired life after the massive 2014 victory of the BJP.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

In Nepal, young dreams of serving in Indian Army crash as Agnipath halts a centuries-old tradition

Since 1815, Nepali Gorkhas have served in Indian & British Armies, as well as in Bihar, Bengal & Assam Police. Since Agnipath scheme came in, no Nepal-domiciled Gorkha has enlisted.

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.