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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicBudget 2020

Topic: Budget 2020

Crunch forces Modi govt to raise money from financial sector instead of injecting capital

FM Sitharaman skipped injecting fresh capital into Indian lenders for the first time since 2014. Instead, govt will sell stakes in 2 financial firms to raise cash.

Burden of rescuing Indian economy back on RBI after Modi govt’s disappointing Budget

Focus is now on RBI’s interest rate decision on 6 Feb. But having cut rates 5 times last year, Governor Shaktikanta Das has little room to ease more.

Why I am disappointed with Budget 2020 but also think it’s a realistic one: Gurcharan Das

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should have admitted that Indian economy was in a crisis, and then explained how she planned to get us out of it.

Nirmala Sitharaman says new tax regime to definitely benefit taxpayers in some brackets

Industry experts say that the two-tax regime option on personal tax, just like corporate taxes, will only make the structure more complicated

Budget 2020 fails to meet MGNREGA estimate — and misses a chance to spur rural demand

Government is banking on NSSF, market and investors. But if any of these don’t play as per the script, then financing of fiscal deficit will become challenging.

Ex-RBI governor criticises income tax move, Yamini Aiyar says Budget doesn’t fix demand

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Agri to infra, Budget 2020 takes a calculated path to revive demand, boost economic growth

The underlying assumption in the Budget’s economic strategy is that the Indian economy appears to have bottomed out and is expected to pick up in 2020-21.

Modi’s Budget 2020 is less taxing for startups, salaried class. Not so for e-commerce giants

To boost the startup ecosystem, Budget 2020 proposes to ease the burden of taxation on the employees by deferring the tax payment on ESOPs of startups.

Modi’s swagger is reserved for social policy, but it’s the economy that really needs it

What was sorely needed from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was that she deliver a 'historic' Budget 2020. But Indians got a 'history' budget instead.

On Camera

India is becoming a Republic of RWAs. It’s the most powerful elected body

Civics textbooks need an upgrade, considering that RWAs enforce laws they’ve devised themselves – no matter if it violates a fundamental right or two.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.