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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

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

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

Russia’s super-missile test shows a new, expensive technological race—with dire outcomes

The test raises a question. Why have Russian nuclear strategists now invested in the Burevestnik, when the US abandoned nuclear ramjet propulsion in 1964?

Karnataka, Telangana, TN, Maharashtra power 40% of services output, pan-India growth uneven—NITI Aayog

Report on India's services sector examines state-level dynamics, maps disparities and suggests ways to tap into the sector’s potential.

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.