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Congress guarantees: Rs 80,000 cr transferred to people, says CM SiddaramaiahChief Minister Siddaramaiah announced that the State Government has transferred approximately Rs 80,000 crore to citizens through welfare g...
Has aspirational vs anxiety politics slowed down GoI in the rollout of economic reforms?Delhi CM Rekha Gupta presented the first budget, focusing on a significant increase in capital expenditure and delivering on electoral prom...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talks about freebies/revdi issueWith the upcoming high-stakes elections in Delhi, political parties like AAP and BJP focus heavily on offering freebies. However, there's a...
Will Sitharaman's middle-class bonanza give enough ROI in Delhi?Prime Minister Modi praised the middle-class-centric tax relief in Budget 2025. The budget's significant tax cuts could influence the Delhi...
Southern states pushing for more population not good idea, says former RBI Guv SubbaraoFormer RBI Governor D Subbarao emphasized that population growth is not a solution to address disparities in Central funds distribution, de...
Freebies should be sustainable, governments must not put a burden on future generations: FM SitharamanFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed that a government should be able to generate “adequate” revenue from providing primary require...
Will it be a 'Congress' budget, GoI?Budget 2024: No matter how justified, giveaways like farm loan waivers create a moral hazard. While these promises don't affect banks that ...
View: Budget sparkles, minus fireworksFor any economy to grow at this rate when so many others are sinking is notable. Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh — all India’s neighbour...
Centre’s unfair tactics, not guarantees, responsible for Karnataka’s deficit budget: Priyank KhargeThe Congress had made five major pre-poll promises during the assembly elections in May this year, a move that is widely believed to have c...
Former CM Kamal Nath's Congress govt stopped 51 central schemes: Nirmala SitharamanFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman criticised Priyanka Gandhi, accusing her of being silent on atrocities against women in Congress-ruled ...
Siddaramaiah’s retort to Modi: Will fight LS polls with guarantee schemes as our main agendaThe CM gave a detailed response, by way of a tweet, to the PM’s criticism of Karnataka and Rajasthan, while speaking at an event in Pune on...
Rs 62,000 Crore Freebies: Congress win might cost Karnataka this much every yearThe Congress party has promised every female head of the family Rs 2,000 a month, every unemployed diploma holder Rs 1,500 per month, and g...
Gujarat Assembly Elections: BJP chief Nadda calls it state's responsibility to check anti-national forces like antibodies keep check on bad cellsBJP Chief JP Nadda on Sunday said it is the government's responsibility to keep a check on anti-national forces just like "antibodies keep ...
Should political parties be allowed to dole out freebies? Economists offer a solutionThe political slugfest that has broken out over freebies between the ruling party and the opposition comes at a time when the Supreme Court...
EC welcomes SC suggestion of expert panel on freebies, but does not want to be part of itA bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli, on August 3, had asked stakeholders like the Centre...
Supreme Court notice to Centre, EC on parties promising freebies in electionsA three-judge bench, led by CJI NV Ramana, while hearing a plea by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay to restrain parties from distributing any su...
SC issues notices to Centre, election panel on PIL against poll freebiesThe Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from the Centre and the Election Commission on a PIL seeking a direction to seize the electio...
Modi rules out a populist Budget & then drops hints what it could beThough Modi refused to speak on the Budget, one can get an idea about the govt's budgetary priorities from what Modi emphasised in his inte...
If it's a farm budget from Arun Jaitley, then it needs to be a smart oneMore freebies will not ensure that the farm sector comes out of its long crisis. The freebies have already distorted Indian agriculture
Expect Budget 2015 to be pro-reform, not populist: Siddharth Varadarajan"I do not think PM Modi will be looking to come up with a please-the-public budget. In any case, fiscally, his hands are really quite tied."