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Topic: budget

Budget 2019: Where the government will earn and spend its rupee

Sanya Dhingra -
The government's major earnings will come from tax revenue while it will spend the most on devolution to states.

Piyush Goyal’s historic tax relief gives purchasing power to middle class, says Jaitley

Arun Jaitley -
The relief in income tax effectively strengthens the great Indian middle class whose expansion of purchasing power holds the key for India’s future.

Goyal’s budget smartly resists temptation to go overboard on income guarantee

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

My name is Piyush Goyal & I’m not a poet

Ruhi Tewari -
Presenting his first-ever budget, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal steered clear of rhymes, a helpful tool for his predecessors to liven up the speech.

Chidambaram slams interim budget as ‘account for votes’ and not ‘vote on account’

PTI -
Taking to Twitter after Piyush Goyal presented the interim budget, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said the NDA missed the fiscal deficit target.

Modi govt gives Railways Rs 1.58 lakh crore in interim budget, the highest ever

PTI -
Finance minister Piyush Goyal said 2018-2019 has been the safest for the Indian Railways and all unmanned level crossings on the broad gauge network were eliminated.

No other govt has announced such sweeping tax changes in interim budget

Remya Nair -
Changes to tax structure in Piyush Goyal's budget is unprecedented because an interim budget is only for a short period — for transition between two govts.

Sensex soars over 500 points as investors welcome tax exemptions, sops in Budget 2019

PTI -
Market was bullish even though the government overshot the fiscal deficit target for the current financial year.

Loans worth Rs 7.23 lakh crore under Mudra scheme sanctioned under Mudra scheme

PTI -
In the interim budget 2019 presentation, finance minister Piyush Goyal said more than 15 lakh loans were granted under the Mudra scheme, of which a majority of beneficiaries were women.

Piyush Goyal’s big sop for middle class — full tax rebate for income up to Rs 5 lakh

Remya Nair -
The standard deduction limit has been increased to Rs 50,000 in the interim budget, as has the TDS limit on bank and post office deposits.
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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

DM Kulkarni -
The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

Parineeta to Queen—What Hindi cinema’s marriages reveal about us

With MGNREGA dismantled, Modi govt now has to prepare for upheaval in rural economy

Economy

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Defence

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

National Interest

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

Shekhar Gupta -
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.

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