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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
India works with the principles of cooperative federalism under which expenditure made and taxes raised are both…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It has happened before. A business grows, builds connections, grabs political patronage and thinks it can get away with…
By Thomas Isaac |
We may soon be the third largest economy in the world. But budgets like the one for 2023-24, presented last week in…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
At the end of its three-day meeting on February 8 – its last for the current fiscal – the MPC of the RBI resolved to…
By Ajit Ranade |
The sudden and steep crash in Adani group stocks took away some of the glow of the Union Budget news headlines. The…
By Ajit Ranade |
This is Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth budget, and the last full plan be-fore the general elections of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The budget speech of Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman was the shortest by her own standards but it was not short…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term, scheduled to be…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
This budget is a bold one that builds on the confidence of the government gained from the healthy GDP growth and…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union Budget for 2023-24 coming up next week will be the fourth budget for NDA II. The budget will be presented…
By Jagdish Rattanani, Pavitra Mohan |
A landmark piece of legislation that promises to make healthcare a fundamental right has run into unseemly opposition…
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
We are into the New Year but the pandemic, it appears, will follow us into 2023. If the world thought this would be the…
By Indira Hirway |
The BJP has won for a record seventh term in the Gujarat Assembly elections held earlier this month. The win is no…