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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicUnion Budget

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

Sudan shows what happens when the world is happy to let mass killers rule

Praveen Swami -
Fourteen million refugees, and 25 million facing acute hunger, should be reason enough for the world to dismantle the dystopia in Sudan — even if the sadism of its rulers is not.

Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

SRK is more Johnny Depp than Depp

Economy

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Aneesa PA -
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

Defence

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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