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TopicBudget 2021

Topic: Budget 2021

Budget again shows Navy is India’s forgotten Service. While China marches to 2049 mega plan

Budget 2021-22 has again put the Navy on the sidelines of Indian defence planning and strategy. While China has its plans clear.

In a first, panchayati raj & urban local bodies to spend Centre’s Rs 13,192 cr on health

The health ministry will draw up rules for where the central funds can be spent, in accordance with the 15th Finance Commission’s recommendations.

Why Modi govt has slashed 99.9% budget of agency meant to fund higher education institutes

Formed 4 yrs ago, Higher Education Financing Agency was meant to grant interest-free loans to institutions. But its failure prompted Modi govt to slash funding.

Indian economy’s vaccine, and Nirmala Sitharaman’s PSU ‘bazaar’

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

Many good things in Budget 2021. But wait for Modi govt to show its will, capability

Unless the Modi govt comes up with some out-of-the-box solution, the demand for recapitalisation could derail its fiscal plans for the year.

Covid needed special attention to health but Modi govt Budget doesn’t give a clear roadmap

Direct spending via Health Ministry continues to be low. After a 24 per cent increase during the current fiscal, allocations for FY22 fall by 11 per cent.

Budget 2021 is taxpayer friendly — plugs abuse of welfare schemes, respects honest taxpayers

Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget proposals regarding investment in infrastructure, heath and other sectors are capital intensive and will usher significant funds in the Indian economy.

Warlike fortification at Delhi borders is lousy politics, shows govt’s paranoia and insenstivity

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Rajat Sharma says nothing negative in Budget, Ravish Kumar thinks govt ‘has sold’ everything

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

Budget’s disinvestment targets are heroic. Modi govt must show unprecedented transparency

The Atmanirbhar narrative was big in this Budget, but it is here that the danger lies, because the sentiment of self-reliance is seductive and popular.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.