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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
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AAP’s budget for debt-hit Punjab factors in another Rs 50,000 cr in loans, grant promised for women missing

Total expenditure up by 26% more than last yr. Punjab's burgeoning debt remains a concern as budgetary estimates risk pushing it to over Rs 3.47 lakh crore, or 46.8% of GSDP.

Haryana MLAs will undergo training to understand ‘nitty-gritty’ of Budget for ‘constructive debate’

The training sessions is the result of a letter written by speaker Gian Chand Gupta to Lok Sabha saying standing committees needed training to understand nuances of Budget.

SubscriberWrites: School education needs more incentives than just budget allocation

Without structural reforms to reduce the negative impact of licensing of schools and high salaries of govt school teachers, chances of change are bleak, writes Pankaj Jain.

Air purifiers, dust control, more trees — BMC allocates 25 cr budget to check air pollution

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation presented Rs 52,619.07 cr budget for FY 2023-24, but allocated less than 0.05% for one of Mumbai's most-pressing issues — worsening air quality.

No tanks, just tax in this regime change & what happened when Vikas drank the Kool-Amrit

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

Adani row: Congress demands probe under CJI or joint House panel — ‘Rahul warned months ago’

Party demands impartial investigation under CJI or joint Parliamentary committee probe into allegations made by Hindenburg Research. Claims Modi 'prime mentor' of industrialist.

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: Long-pending dam project in poll-bound Karnataka gets Rs 5,300 crore

CM Bommai thanks Sitharaman, PM for the allocation. Project envisages covering 2.25 lakh hectare of area in drought-prone districts Chikkamagaluru, Chitradurga, Tumkur & Davangere.

Economic Survey says services sector has ‘bright growth prospects’ but external challenges loom

Survey report cites improved performance in sectors like tourism, hotels, real estate, IT-BPM and e-commerce. Anticipates improvement in India’s services exports.

‘Recovery complete’: Economic Survey pegs India’s growth at 6.5% in FY24, and faster thereafter

While global headwinds remain, several factors due in large part to management of key sectors in last few years have placed India in strong position for remaining part of this decade.

On Camera

Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

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

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.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.