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Banking Sector under severe stress. Strike by all employees on March 24 & 25. Why?

Image Credits: United Forum of Bank Unions | Twitter The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) has started an agitation pr...

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Maharashtra State Budget 2024-25 | An Analysis

Budget Allocation Analysis Based on % of Total Expenditure This analysis reviews the annual budget distribution of Mahar...

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Union Budget 2025: Missed Opportunities and Misplaced Priorities.

The 2025 Union Budget is more than an economic plan—it’s a pre-election strategy designed to secure votes, especially in...

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The Banking Sector Reveals the Middle Classes Aren’t Really Getting a ‘Bonanza’

There is a euphoria around the “tax bonanza” offered to the middle classes in this year’s Budget. The proposal of no tax...

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Budget For National Social Assistance Programme Remains Stagnant Yet Again

A woman resident of the Wazirpur slum washing utensils before setting off to work. Photo: Jignesh Mistry. As expected, t...

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पर्यावरण संकट को लेकर बजट प्रावधान नाकाफी

वित्तीय वर्ष 2025- 26 में बजट अनुमान 50,65,345 करोड़ रुपए का है। जिसमें केन्द्रीय पर्यावरण,वन एवं जलवायु परिवर्तन मंत्रा...

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Millions Poised To Be Displaced By Climate Change, But Few Signs India Is Planning Or Budgeting For It

With 14 million Indians estimated to be displaced by climate change and environmental crises, a number expected to exc...

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The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is ta...

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Budget 2025 – rhetorics repeated

Slogans modified. No efforts to revive the Economy. In a surprise, Dr. Ananda Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor, with h...

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विश्व आर्द्रभूमि दिवस ( 2 फरवरी) पर विशेषआद्रभूमि को संरक्षित करने का सार्थक प्रयास आवश्यक

ईरान के शहर रामसर के केस्पियन सागर तट पर दो फरवरी 1971 को अंतर्राष्ट्रीय वेटलैंड (आद्रभूमि) कन्वेंशन का आयोजन हुआ था। जि...

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February 17, 2025

Thomas Franco

Banking Sector under severe stress. Strike by all employees on March 24 & 25. Why?

Image Credits: United Forum of Bank Unions | Twitter The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) has started an agitation programme with a massive demonstration across the country on 14 February 2025 (Photos). The strike will paralyze the entire banking system for four days, as the preceding two days ar...

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June 19, 2025

Amitanshu Verma, Anirban Bhattacharya, Nancy Pathak & Pranay Raj

Maharashtra State Budget 2024-25 | An Analysis

Budget Allocation Analysis Based on % of Total Expenditure This analysis reviews the annual budget distribution of Maharashtra’s Tribal Component Scheme (TCS) across crucial sectors impacting tribal communities from 2020-21 to the projected budget for 2024-25. Key sectors essential for the sta...

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February 18, 2025

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Union Budget 2025: Missed Opportunities and Misplaced Priorities.

The 2025 Union Budget is more than an economic plan—it’s a pre-election strategy designed to secure votes, especially in Delhi and Bihar, where elections were announced. With a large portion of Delhi’s voters comprising the salaried middle class, tax cuts and infrastructure projects seemed to be aim...

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February 18, 2025

Anirban Bhattacharya & Pranay Raj

The Banking Sector Reveals the Middle Classes Aren’t Really Getting a ‘Bonanza’

There is a euphoria around the “tax bonanza” offered to the middle classes in this year’s Budget. The proposal of no tax for those with annual income up to Rs 12 lakh has been hailed by the media, with many even calling this a “middle-class budget”. Of course, there are serious concerns as to whethe...

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February 18, 2025

Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak

Budget For National Social Assistance Programme Remains Stagnant Yet Again

A woman resident of the Wazirpur slum washing utensils before setting off to work. Photo: Jignesh Mistry. As expected, the budget for the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) – a crucial centrally-sponsored social security scheme that provides non-contributory pensions to the most marginalise...

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February 18, 2025

Raj Kumar Sinha

पर्यावरण संकट को लेकर बजट प्रावधान नाकाफी

वित्तीय वर्ष 2025- 26 में बजट अनुमान 50,65,345 करोड़ रुपए का है। जिसमें केन्द्रीय पर्यावरण,वन एवं जलवायु परिवर्तन मंत्रालय को 3412.82 करोड़ रुपए का आबंटन किया गया है जो 2024-25 के प्रावधानों 3330.37 करोड़ रुपए से थोड़ा बढ़ा है। केन्द्रीय पर्यावरण, वन‌‌‌ एवं जलवायु परिवर्तन को मिले वर्तमान बजट में के...

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February 3, 2025

Evita Rodrigues

Millions Poised To Be Displaced By Climate Change, But Few Signs India Is Planning Or Budgeting For It

With 14 million Indians estimated to be displaced by climate change and environmental crises, a number expected to exceed 45 million over the next 25 years, climate-induced displacement and migration is a blindspot in India’s policy and public finance frameworks. Net-zero targets and mitigation me...

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September 24, 2026

CFA Admin

The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is taking. It gives a sense of how responsive is a government to the actual challenges in the economy and the real needs of the people. The current budget as such was crucial as it come...

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February 18, 2025

Thomas Franco

Budget 2025 – rhetorics repeated

Slogans modified. No efforts to revive the Economy. In a surprise, Dr. Ananda Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor, with his team of more than 150 people, produced an Economic Survey 2025 with certain critical comments. (He may be on the way out.) The report started with a note of caution and fear tha...

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February 4, 2025

Raj Kumar Sinha

विश्व आर्द्रभूमि दिवस ( 2 फरवरी) पर विशेषआद्रभूमि को संरक्षित करने का सार्थक प्रयास आवश्यक

ईरान के शहर रामसर के केस्पियन सागर तट पर दो फरवरी 1971 को अंतर्राष्ट्रीय वेटलैंड (आद्रभूमि) कन्वेंशन का आयोजन हुआ था। जिसमें संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ ने दो फरवरी को आद्रभूमि दिवस घोषित किया था। जो आद्रभूमि विश्व भर में जैवविविधता और मानव के लिहाज से महत्वपूर्ण मानी जाती है, उन्हें ‘रामसर साईट’...

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Banking Sector under severe stress. Strike by all employees on March 24 & 25. Why?

Maharashtra State Budget 2024-25 | An Analysis

Union Budget 2025: Missed Opportunities and Misplaced Priorities.

The Banking Sector Reveals the Middle Classes Aren’t Really Getting a ‘Bonanza’

Budget For National Social Assistance Programme Remains Stagnant Yet Again

पर्यावरण संकट को लेकर बजट प्रावधान नाकाफी

Millions Poised To Be Displaced By Climate Change, But Few Signs India Is Planning Or Budgeting For It

The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

Budget 2025 – rhetorics repeated

विश्व आर्द्रभूमि दिवस ( 2 फरवरी) पर विशेषआद्रभूमि को संरक्षित करने का सार्थक प्रयास आवश्यक

Banking Sector under severe stress. Strike by all employees on March 24 & 25. Why?

Maharashtra State Budget 2024-25 | An Analysis

Union Budget 2025: Missed Opportunities and Misplaced Priorities.

The Banking Sector Reveals the Middle Classes Aren’t Really Getting a ‘Bonanza’

Budget For National Social Assistance Programme Remains Stagnant Yet Again

पर्यावरण संकट को लेकर बजट प्रावधान नाकाफी

Millions Poised To Be Displaced By Climate Change, But Few Signs India Is Planning Or Budgeting For It

The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

Budget 2025 – rhetorics repeated

विश्व आर्द्रभूमि दिवस ( 2 फरवरी) पर विशेषआद्रभूमि को संरक्षित करने का सार्थक प्रयास आवश्यक