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Wednesday, December 17, 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 -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
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Opinion

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

Bishwajit Bhattacharyya -
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?

The long arc of rural employment—from welfare to rights to rationing

Muslim objections to Vande Mataram are about faith, not rejection of India

Economy

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

Keshav Padmanabhan -
November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

Defence

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

Snehesh Alex Philip -
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.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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