India needs to invest in clean energy to meet targets

Industry says announcement of loans and performance-based incentives in budget will invigorate sector

Budget through the years

Agriculture: wrong prescription for right diagnosis

Finance minister’s decision to increase farm credit corpus and give more autonomy to states for agriculture schemes unlikely to help farmers

India falls short of achieving increased power generation capacity

Government pins hopes on private investment in renewable energy sector by offering fiscal and financial incentives

Money set aside to build institutions, not public health

Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014

Money set aside to build institutions, not public health

Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014

Too many centuries may not win the match

Finance minister allocated Rs 100 crore to 28 programmes, but far less sum to schemes catering to the masses

Nutri-farms to fight hidden hunger

In a first, bio-fortification technology gets Rs 200 crore in the Union Budget

Custom duty waiver for CFLs in budget: Nothing to cheer about

Likely to make LEDs cheaper only by Rs 10 to Rs 12

How green is budget?

No incentive for buses, no brakes on diesel cars

Can India be ‘atmanirbhar’ by cutting budget for children

While total allocations to Union budget 2021-22 saw an increase of 14.5%, the share for children declined by 10.8% compared to 2020

Zero-budget natural farming brought big gains for Andhra farmers, shows study

Paddy farmers save water, energy and money by adopting this farming approach, the study points out

Sunita's Bytes on Budget

Include eggs in nation’s food security programme, demand activists

People’s Budget Initiative says implementation of food security programme discouraging

Booster for ailing domestic solar industry

But solar manufacturers say customs, excise duty exemptions not enough to compete with China

Mixed signals for vehicles, transportation

SUVs to be expensive but not diesel cars

A symbolic budget

While all the right words have been used in the budget, the programmes are neither well thought out nor given sufficient funds

South Africa’s new budget cushions the coronavirus blow — but only briefly

 The adjustments to the 2020 budget partly cushion the initial blow of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the government&…

गर्मियों में नहीं दिखेगी उत्तरी ध्रुव में बर्फ, जल्द ही आएगा बड़ा बदलाव

शोध के अनुसार आज आर्कटिक में साल भर दिखने वाली बर्फ,  2050 तक गर्मियों के मौसम में पूरी तरह गायब हो जाया करेगी

Bihar slashes spending on education and social welfare

Coal-based power receives a major boost in the state budget presented on March 12

Experts hail doubling of cess on 'dirty' coal

Money collected from the cess gets deposited in the National Clean Energy Fund but doubts remain over its usage

Union budget 2020-21 - explained in 15 charts

Nirmala Sitharaman's budget has little to offer rural India. Allocation to several schemes were slashed below 2019-20 revised estimates&…

Big solar projects favoured over mini grids

Budget gives boost to solar powered agricultural pumps

Findings of Economic Survey 2015 are cause for worry

Survey hints at what we can expect from Union Budget 2015-16

To fast track India’s industrial growth, FM gives sops to mining

Environmentalists say ministry of finance apathetic towards social environmental consequences