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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicBudget 2024

Topic: Budget 2024

Budget failed healthcare—should’ve boosted private hospitals in PMJAY with tax incentives

Of 43,000 private hospitals in India, only 30% are empanelled under PMJAY. As the Centre prepares to expand the scheme to include senior citizens, this could become a problem.

Conspiracy against businessmen & to give impression India isn’t safe for investors — Sitharaman

Speaking during her reply to the debate on Budget 2024 in Lok Sabha, the finance minister said there was a conspiracy to undermine India’s society, Army, economy, and entrepreneurial culture.

Census, privatisation absent from Budget 2024. It’s a calculated political move

Look beyond Andhra-Bihar in Budget 2024. What's absent has larger political implications

Budget 2024-25 has much to offer the middle class. Can’t be judged on tax exemption alone

Taxpayers with an income of over Rs 10 lakh are complaining that the middle class was largely ignored in the budget. Some fact-checking is necessary to find out if this is true.

Do not apply if you have Seine-sitive skin & who’s winning the Budget Olympics

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

Middle class is reacting like slighted lovers over Budget 2024. Their anger won’t last

What Modi govt got wrong with this budget and in its signalling is in moving away from its generally upbeat, ‘India is on the rise, growth will get steeper, markets are red hot’ messaging.

Budget boost but many commitments to fulfil — what’s the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act cited by FM

In budget speech, Sitharaman said Modi govt has made ‘concerted efforts’ to fulfill commitments in Act, which was notified in March 2014, 3 months before Andhra Pradesh bifurcation.

Internal combustion engine government & how to give taxpayers a run for their money

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

On Camera

The speech PM Modi should deliver this Independence Day

For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason most of my initiatives turn into disasters.

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.