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6th February, 2023
The Union budget for 2023-24 came against a backdrop of economic recovery and optimism in the... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
5th February, 2023
This is Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth budget, and the last full plan be-fore the... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
5th February, 2023
The budget speech of Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman was the shortest by her own standards... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
3rd February, 2023
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term,... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
3rd February, 2023
This budget is a bold one that builds on the confidence of the government gained from the healthy... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
30th January, 2023
The Union Budget for 2023-24 coming up next week will be the fourth budget for NDA II. The budget... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
29th January, 2023
A landmark piece of legislation that promises to make healthcare a fundamental right has run into... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, India politics, Inclusive growth
28th January, 2023
On the first day of the Davos summit in Switzerland this year, Oxfam International published a... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Jobs, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
22nd January, 2023
As a writer on intelligence for the last 27 years, my objective has been to demystify and... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Inequality, Global, Jobs
18th January, 2023
India has had a tradition of conducting a national census, every ten years, for more than a century... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
14th January, 2023
India has taken over leadership of the G-20 and has said it wants to lead with a presidency of “... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, China-India, Global, Jobs, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
7th January, 2023
We are into the New Year but the pandemic, it appears, will follow us into 2023. If the world... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, China-India, Global, India politics, Indian economy
31st December, 2022
Christmas brought good cheer to 81 crore Indians as the government announced that it was making all... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
25th December, 2022
The BJP has won for a record seventh term in the Gujarat Assembly elections held earlier this month... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
25th December, 2022
Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, two of Hindi filmdom’s biggest stars, have come out to make... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Inequality, Global, India politics
17th December, 2022
Civilisational values are conflicting while national soccer teams compete in Qatar’s stadiums.... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
17th December, 2022
There have been a slew of reports and papers on the Indian economy in the past two weeks. The most... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
13th December, 2022
During the period May - December 2022, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has increased the policy... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, RBI, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
8th December, 2022
As widely expected, the MPC raised the policy repo rate by 35 basis points to 6.25 per cent at the... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, RBI, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
4th December, 2022
The stinging remarks by Justice Sandeep Kumar of the Patna High Court in a case of the bulldozing... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Inclusive growth