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Union Budget 2021-22: Wages of inequality

Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget for 2021-22 is aggressively tilted in favour of the privileged and denies succour to those worst hit by the COVID-19 pande

Rescue act, again

By forcing SBI to take over Yes Bank, the government and the Reserve Bank of India appear to have abdicated their responsibility to ensure the systemi

Economic Survery 2019-20

Misses in manufacturing

The Economic Survey recalls the Chinese success in industrial development and advocates a strategic focus on manufacturing but pays little attention t

Jayan Jose Thomas

LIC 'stake' sale

LIC 'disinvestment': Outrageous idea

The Finance Minister’s announcement of the intention to sell a part of the government’s “stake” in LIC, India’s largest financial institution, sparks

UNION BUDGET: Agriculture

Raw deal for farmers

The Budget lacks any serious effort to address the main issues of unemployment, agrarian distress and falling incomes, revealing a high level of offic

Economic Survey 2019-20

Economic Survey 2019-20: Glossy economics

The Economic Survey for 2019-20 has little to offer on the ongoing economic crisis and reflects the government’s scant regard for either economic stat

A non-Budget

THE Union Budget for 2020-21, presented in Parliament by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is as much of a non-budget as the one she presente

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives to present the Budget on February 1. Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur is also in the picture.

Neither growth nor justice

The Narendra Modi regime appears to have perfected the art of subterfuge in Budget making, robbing it of its importance as an exercise in economic ac

LIC employees protest against the decision by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement that the government will sell a part of its holding in LIC in Mumbai on February 3.

Future of finance

The Finance Minister’s Budget speech signalled a possible transformation of Indian finance where the private sector is called upon to play an increasi

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Railway lines narrowing down as they proceed towards the outer signal at the Visakhapatnam railway station in Andhra Pradesh.

Off-track Budget

The Union Budget’s focus on the Indian Railways is cursory. An exercise in obfuscation, it reveals utter neglect of India’s largest enterprise.

Daily wage labourers waiting for work in the walled city area of Old Delhi in October.

Economic slowdown: Manufactured crisis

Going by the data put out by the RBI and other government agencies, the present slowdown is not a “soft patch”, not even “cyclical”, but substantially

D. Narasimha Reddy

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo during a press conference at MIT on October 14.

A Nobel-winning prescription for symptoms

As the euphoria over India’s latest Nobel Prize win subsides, it is time to question the validity of randomised control trials advocated by the prize