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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


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


FM talks AI, tech without hype

India, Feb. 2 -- The story about technology and AI in Union Budget 2026 begins not with start-ups, digital platforms, or digital India, but with a tax proposal aimed at global cloud companies. The Bud... Read More


Budget 2026-27 Aims to Sustain Growth Momentum with Record Capex Push: FM Sitharaman

India, Feb. 2 -- Last Updated on February 2, 2026 12:14 am by INDIAN AWAAZ ADITYA RAJ DAS Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that through the Union budget 2026-27, the government is laying... Read More