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Topic: UPA

Budget 2019: India has a law to cap fiscal deficit but UPA and NDA couldn’t care less

No matter what the specific deficits caps, debt limits or escape clauses are, a stronger rule of law in fiscal policy is in public interest.

Bharat Ratna for Manmohan Singh? He doesn’t deserve one

Hailing Manmohan Singh may serve a political purpose for Modi, but Manmohan’s legacy is nothing to be proud of.

From Bihar to Andhra, how India fought, and won, its 50-yr war with Left-wing extremism

Maoists still have strength in certain regions but it’s grossly untenable to say they pose an existential threat to India as they did in late 2000s.

Happy to cooperate, says Praful Patel after ED summons him in UPA-era aviation scam

This is the first major action against leader in alleged multi-crore aviation scam that is said to have taken place during the UPA govt.

Left to consider joining opposition after exit polls paint dismal picture for it

A majority of the exit polls have given zero seats to the Left front in West Bengal.

Apoorvanand: BJP’s rebuke of Pragya Singh Thakur was a “clever ploy”

ThoughtShot—The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Hung verdicts to slim NDA majority — what opinion polls have said about Lok Sabha elections

The surveys were all conducted between January and April this year and their tone changed from hung verdicts to a wafer-thin majority for the NDA.

Watch out India’s next govt, Modi regime is leaving behind an extremely weak economy

Industrial output has declined, manufacturing growth has hit a new low and banks are in woeful state. Agriculture is another story.

The TINA factor & flailing opposition means Modi will win again, writes Arun Jaitley

Union minister Arun Jaitley said the opposition's promises will be responsible for its rout for it effectively shows 'there is no alternative' (TINA) to Narendra Modi.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.