NaMo budget on transport and pollution: Green expectations - Dashed hopes
NDAÔÇÖs maiden budget upholds and supports UPAII blunders to protect the automobile industry while ignoring the perils of …
Where votes meet volts
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's political future would depend much on fixing the country's power crisis
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
It’s pouring money and schemes in agriculture
No dearth of funds for agri credit and new institutions
Chidambaram pinpoints targets ahead of polls
Offers budget sops to women, youth and the poor
Farmers in Telangana protest cap on farm loan waiver
State government proposed to limit loan waiver to last agriculture season
Waste-to-energy plants to get a boost, says Chidambaram
Scheme to encourage cities, municipalities to set up such projects to get encouragement
Rs 1,400 crore for setting up water purification plants
Ministry of drinking water and sanitation gets Rs 15,260 crore
Help Kerala’s rubber sector recover from crisis, urges state finance minister
In the run up to Union Budget 2015, M Suchitra speaks to Kerala Finance Minister K M Mani to draw up a list of the state’s expectations …
Jairam Ramesh seeks to minimise budget cut for rural development
Gives details to finance ministry on the impact of revised budget estimates on individual schemes
Budget offers big push for rural infrastructure
Green transportation gets lip service
Money set aside to build institutions, not public health
Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014
Ban FDI in brownfield pharma, says Parliament standing committee
Panel raises alarm over continuing takeover of Indian generic drug firms by multinational companies
South Africa to phase in carbon tax from 2015
Tax to increase at 10 per cent per year; draft policy sets relief limits
Mixed signals for vehicles, transportation
SUVs to be expensive but not diesel cars
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
UPA woos women and tribal voters
Finance minister lists Forest Rights Act as one of its key achievements while MGNREGA doesn't find mention.
It is not about farmers
Budget 2013 pushed up allocations for agriculture, but it will not help farmers
Andhra government fails to present much-hyped agriculture budget
It presents only an action plan for agriculture; Rs 25,962 crore earmarked for agriculture and allied sectors
100 smart satellite cities on anvil
Push for urban development through PPP and FDI
Harsh Vardhan seeks tax of Rs 3.5 per stick on cigarettes, bidis
Earlier increase in tax ineffective in deterring smokers as it focused on length of cigarettes and led to production of shorter length cigarettes,…
BJP’s maiden budget disappointing for farmers
Jaitley continues with UPA schemes on agriculture, allocates more funds
How we reviewed NDA’s interim budget last year
Modi government’s maiden budget was a patchwork of abandoned schemes being revived or existing ones being re-named. Despite some fund …
Food security bill ordinance deferred
Cabinet to consult Opposition in special session of Parliament
.jpg "Farmers in Telangana protest cap on farm loan waiver")
.jpg "BJP’s maiden budget disappointing for farmers")
.jpg "How we reviewed NDA’s interim budget last year")
