The union budget serves as a crucial lens through which the government’s priorities for the social sector can be assessed. It outlines the financial resources allocated to various social services.The ...

The rate of growth of GDP at 6.4% was much lower than the expectations of most analysts (Economic Times 2025). The industrial sub-sectors showed significant variations with manufacturing and mining ...

The growth rate of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Indian economy is expected to grow at 6.4% in 2024–25 and the growth is expected to be between 6.3% and 6.8% in 2025–26 (Economic Survey 2025 ...

Tax alterations in budget 2025–26 include announcements of customs duty changes and income tax changes. Following up on the proposed comprehensive review of customs duty, the budget announces the ...

The slowdown in 2024 provided an inadvertent proof of the effectiveness of this demand stimulus that also reduces bot­tle­necks and sustains medium-term growth.

The high volatility that followed the massive pandemic shock of 2020–21 is possibly behind us and economic growth seems to have stabilised at around 6.5%–7%, higher than growth in any other major ...

This global rethinking, accelerated by the surge in debt following the COVID-19 pandemic, is driven by the realisation that the binding numeric targets may not provide the necessary flexibility to ...

The budget speech laid emphasis on the following: accelerate growth, secure inclusive development, invigorate private sector investments, uplift household sentiments, and enhance the spending power of ...

A decade after Bengaluru’s last municipal elections and five years since the term of the previous municipal corporation (Tripathi 2025), yet another law has been passed ostensibly to restructure urban ...

These provisions, framed as efforts to protect the right to privacy, could effectively render the RTI and the information power it accords to citizens toothless. With the DPDP rules set to be notified ...

Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza continues un­abated and unchecked. The brief and all-too-partial respite offered by the ceasefire evaporated as Israel reneged on the terms of the ...

Through an analysis of images capturing death and suffering,  particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, the piece explores how photography bears witness to state failure, unmasking the malice ...