Allocate 3 per cent of GDP to healthcare, says Indian Medical Association

Recommendations for Union Budget 2013-14 include wooing private sector; public health experts sceptical

Centre’s decision on schemes reflects its conservative approach to economic revival

It will also impact the vulnerable who are already bearing the brunt of COVID-19 and the countrywide lockdown, they said

Budget bites on vehicles

Fails to restrain use of subsidised diesel in private diesel cars

Prime Minister’s Logic

Bonn meet ends with a more balanced draft text for Paris climate deal

Experts believe there are a number of fundamental issues that still need to be resolved

100 smart satellite cities on anvil

Push for urban development through PPP and FDI

Assam budget announces measures for small tea growers

Retains VAT rate on auction sale of tea, proposes policy to maintain quality of produce

No sops for rural Indian

No extra funds for MGNREGA, sanitation; allocations reduced for rural roads and housing programme

Funds for social welfare cut drastically in revised budget estimates

Ministers write protest letters to prime minister and finance minister, saying it would greatly impact ongoing schemes

Budget 2015 gives drought-hit Marathwada a miss

Proposed PPP in irrigation may prove disastrous as control of water may pass into private hands

Money, money everywhere; not a clean drop to drink

Experts lament the lack of scientific planning and direction for cleaning of rivers in budgets

Check Jharkhand’s degrading environment

Unscientific mining has caused rampant environmental degradation in the state in the absence of proper monitoring

China's per capita carbon emissions surpass EU's

India has one of four highest CO2 emissions in the world, says report

Budget: Thumbs down from farmers and GM industry

Say does not increase farmers’ income

Budget through the years post liberalisation

Run up to Budget 2012-13

Rural health, malnutrition get attention

Health sector overall allocated even less than what it received last year, say experts

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