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Saturday, September 6, 2025
TopicBudget 2023

Topic: Budget 2023

Govt has no role in Adani issue, it’s ‘between pvt company & regulator’: Finance secy Somanathan

In interview with ThePrint, finance secretary spoke on Budget, how central govt can encourage states to increase capex, MGNREGA allocation & if food, fertiliser prices will fall.

Slowdown, Covid? Modi govt’s revenue receipt estimates off by 10% or more since FY19

ThePrint looked at Budget documents since Modi govt came to power in 2014, to calculate gap between budgeted and actual revenue earnings, revenue expenditures & borrowings.

‘Supremacist ego hurt seeing Bharat’s rise’ — Hindu Right press on ‘anti-Modi’ BBC documentary

ThePrint’s round-up of how pro-Hindutva media covered and commented on news and topical issues over the past few days.

Diamonds, made in a lab: IIT Madras gets Rs 242 cr from Budget for project, calls it ‘historic’

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while announcing the allocation for lab-grown diamonds in the 2023 Budget, had called it an 'emerging sector with high employment potential'.

Everything Budget 2023 got right: Boost to capex & private consumption, infra push, green growth

The Union Budget's impetus towards tourism and housing will help generate employment opportunities, plus rationalisation in food and fertiliser subsidy is a welcome development.

FY24 Budget shows policy continuity amid fiscal uncertainty. But path ahead not easy

Cushion from a high nominal GDP base will not be around in FY24. Budgeted expenditure will be vulnerable to pruning in case of shortfall in revenue realisation.

Budget 2023 energising debates on defence spending but Indian police left begging

For years, experts have argued the case for rethinking the Centre-state relationship regarding the police. The time to debate police financing is running out.

Budget 2023 takes a leap in reducing India’s fiscal deficit

Measures announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Budget 2023 are clearly not populist, which has been the convention.

Some hits and misses for India’s agricultural sector in Budget 2023

A dedicated fund for start-ups in rural India is a much-needed thrust but Budget 2023 has unexpectedly slashed allocation to the agriculture ministry and reduced funds for MGNREGA by 33%.

Budget 2023: An election-year bonus for the super-rich. No, Modi govt hasn’t lost it

See the political messaging in this budget. It is an uncluttered continuation from last year and is a statement of confidence, bordering on overconfidence.

On Camera

Kolkata’s silencing of Javed Akhtar exposes India’s secular vacuum

Even those parties that wear the label of secular and progressive often bow to the pressures of fundamentalist groups within the Muslim community.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Dassault Aviation takes majority control of joint venture with Anil Ambani’s Reliance

Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?