From Delhi & Maharashtra to Karnataka, Punjab & Himachal, governments across parties have diluted, delayed or pruned pre-poll welfare promises as fiscal realities catch up.
The real fiscal squeeze isn't just revdis. It's the growing burden of committed expenditure—payrolls, pensions, interest payments, grants—that leaves states with little room to govern.
At the launch of Realising Rights, economist AK Shiva Kumar said the handbook arrives ‘precisely at a time when India's welfare imagination is being renegotiated’.
Financial aid, pension or health benefits for journalists already being given in Bengal, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Goa, Puducherry, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Ahead of the West Bengal elections on 23 April and 29 April, the BJP announced financial aid for different sections, such as women, unemployed youth & fishermen.
Chennai: The Dravidian leaders prefer to call them as ‘social investments’, or ‘personalised gifts’. But a familiar sight is back in poll: Dravida Munnetra...
The Congress has promised Rs 50,000 assistance to each woman but as we've seen in many recent elections, voters seem to be conscious of the proverb: 'A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.'
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is hoping Meri Rasoi food scheme will help AAP retain power next year. But economists warn that it may strain Punjab’s already stretched finances.
The Union government’s fiscal discipline has not been matched by state fiscal discipline, thanks to the tendency to promise unconditional freebies to the electorate.
N Chandrasekaran’s exit announcement has left many people at Air India feeling insecure about the future, the last thing the airline needs at the moment.
NSFDC beneficiaries fell from 1.18 lakh to 61,394 in a year as a Parliamentary panel flagged no fresh equity, nine board vacancies and weak state agencies.
It is reliably learnt that Airbus, which had initially offered its A400M, is likely to sit it out since its aircraft outweighs requirements with payload capacity of 37 tonnes.
It’s evident Bhagwat was watching from a distance and was worried about youth’s anger towards Modi govt. The first thing he did was to demolish any criticism of Gen Z protesters as anti-national.
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