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Kerala: VIjayan strongly criticizes union Budget 2026-27

Kasaragod, Feb. 2 -- Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi VIjayan today strongly criticized the union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, alleging cruel disregard against the state. He... Read More


Budget allocates Rs.18,000 crore for power distribution reform

New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- The Union government has allocated Rs.18,000 crore in the budget for FY27 for the revamped distribution sector scheme (RDSS) amid a renewed push to reform the power distribution s... Read More


Social sectors get the short shrift as structural tensions in economy play out against global churn

India, Feb. 2 -- Since the pandemic surge in government expenditure, successive budgets over the last five years have been carefully tapering government expenditure. Total expenditure, as a percentage... Read More


A budget for an uncertain world

India, Feb. 2 -- The budget for the coming financial year was crafted in an environment defined by a profound shift in the global order, marked by the US's new doctrine of strategic uncertainty as a p... Read More


Message from government: Growth leads consumption

India, Feb. 2 -- This was a budget of a mature economy, for an economically stable country, and by a government that is confidently looking beyond today. Union Budget 2026-27 signals a shift from cris... Read More


Work-in-progress budget to keep the wheels oiled

India, Feb. 2 -- In college exams, we used to have "continuation sheets". If you had too much to say, you asked for another sheaf of papers. Budget 2026 can be called a continuation budget. A work-in-... Read More


J&K Needs Comprehensive Industrial Package

Srinagar, Feb. 2 -- Jammu and Kashmir's economy has long been caught between promise and paralysis. For more than three decades, the region has awaited a comprehensive industrial incentives package fr... Read More


13 Ways the J&K Government Pushes Kashmiri Shawlwallas to the Doorsteps

Srinagar, Feb. 2 -- Every winter, India's cities witness a quiet, unsettling ritual. A Kashmiri shawlwalla rings a doorbell, opens his bag on a stranger's sofa or compound, recites the language of her... Read More


TReDS, a new fund, and a top-up: What MSMEs get from the Union budget

New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- India's 7.4 million micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) will soon be beneficiaries of a new Rs.10,000 crore fund, a top-up of an existing fund for startups, and reforms t... Read More


Sensex shocked, stocks stumble

India, Feb. 2 -- Before Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rose in Parliament to present her ninth consecutive Budget, the stock markets seemed gung-ho with expectations. Half-an-hour before the spee... Read More