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Topic: Union Budget

Sitharaman cuts budget for Modi’s pet Ayushman Bharat scheme over fund ‘under-utilisation’

Himani Chandna -
Ayushman Bharat’s budget has been revised downwards from Rs 6,400 crore to Rs 3,314 crore in 2019-20.

Only 1.82% hike in defence budget could hurt military acquisition & modernisation plans

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In Union Budget 2020, defence pension sees the biggest jump with a 13.6% increase against the 2019-20 revised estimates.

Budget 2020: 15th Finance Commission keeps states’ share virtually unchanged for FY21

Remya Nair -
With Census 2011 as basis, the panel has reduced shares of states like Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. States expected to oppose the recommendations.

In Budget 2020, govt sets agenda to revise motherhood age to curb maternal mortality

Fatima Khan -
As India progresses, need to look at the age of girls entering motherhood, Nirmala Sitharaman says in her budget speech.

Nirmala Sitharaman raises FY20 fiscal deficit projection to 3.8%, FY21 target set at 3.5%

Remya Nair -
In Union budget speech, Nirmala Sitharaman says govt used the deviation allowed in the FRBM Act of 0.5 percentage points in both FY20 and FY21.

CP Chandrasekhar on quitting govt body, Rajadhyaksha says budget ‘high wire act’ for FM

Revathi Krishnan -
The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

GST collection crosses Rs 1 lakh crore per month, will remain ‘good’: Nirmala Sitharaman

PTI -
Finance Minister Sitharaman insists the Modi govt doesn't differentiate between BJP-ruled and non-BJP ruled states, and is not holding back dues.

On Manmohan Singh’s birthday, 4 reforms from his 1991 roadmap that changed India

Samyak Pandey -
Former PM and renowned economist Manmohan Singh put India on the highway to growth with his 1991 budget.

In photos, powerful finance ministers from the past & their key Budgets

ThePrint Team -
Indira Gandhi, V.P. Singh, Manmohan Singh, Yashwant Sinha, Arun Jaitley and others with their Budgets.

Rahul Gandhi gatecrashes the Budget and PM Modi’s final exam preparations

Soham Sen -
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Opinion

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

Phiroze J Shroff -
If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Dharali floods a wake-up call for IMD, NDMA to buck up—the Himalayan region is vulnerable

Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

Economy

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

Neelam Pandey -
New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Defence

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

Snehesh Alex Philip -
New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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