Topic: Russia-US rivalry

Their capacity to handle complaints needs to be increased, and they need to have subject-area expertise to deal with nuanced issues.

T.V. Somanathan argued that supposed progressive nature of direct taxes in old regime doesn’t hold because lower-income households can’t meet full exemption limits while rich easily can.

Capital budget increased to Rs 1.62 lakh crore from 1.52 lakh crore. Navy, Army see substantial increase but allocation for procuring aircraft, aero engines goes down.

If the political establishment responds to a situation like this as if it’s something that must only play out between a corporate & the market, it's coming of age of Indian capitalism.