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The Budget is a critical indicator of policy direction and sets the tone for investors to gauge future opportunities across the entire economy. It reveals the government’s priorities and effective balancing of growth with fiscal discipline. For investors across asset classes, it directly or indirectly shapes their profits, risks and market expectations. It becomes significant…

This edition looks at how India is learning to negotiate hard power with quiet leverage, how the diaspora continues to break ceilings in global boardrooms, and how cultural roots travel even into the most personal choices made abroad. From trade diplomacy in Washington to Indian names echoing in American homes, the signals are subtle but…

In today’s digital age, social media invites us to document almost every moment of our lives. From morning coffee to emotional setbacks, the impulse to share has become almost automatic. While platforms promise connection and visibility, the habit of oversharing can quietly reshape how we see ourselves. It is not only about cyber risks, such…

India’s 80th Union Budget for 2026-27 (UB27) is termed “Yuva Shakti-driven.” Its focus is all-encompassing but specifically targeted at the poor, underprivileged, and disadvantaged. Earlier, the Economic Survey 2025-26 observed that India’s economic trajectory was marked by stability, growth, and moderate inflation. The government has been decisively pursuing far-reaching structural reforms. It chose action over…

The annual budget for year 2026-27 was presented before Parliament by the Finance Minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, ’26. The broad breakup of the Revenue Budget numbers is given in the table below: Values in Rupees crores.A. Broad Revenue Budget breakup: Emerging Issues: 1. Gross Individual income tax receipts are higher than corporate…

As elsewhere in India, Goa discovers that the path to traffic-hell is paved with good highways  In Goa I’m stuck in what seems to be an unending traffic jam. The jam is not caused by… Source link

On Wednesday, something big happened in the tech world. Companies that sell software online (called SaaS companies) suddenly lost 300 billion dollars in value. Why? Because an AI company named Anthropic announced that its AI tool, Claude, had learned some powerful new skills. Claude has been popular with computer programmers for months. But now it…

By Jaya Row When a fisherman casts his net, he encounters four kinds of fish. One senses danger instantly and darts away. It is free. A few struggle and manage to escape. Others strive to break out but remain trapped. The majority, however, simply bite the net and relax. They don’t realise they are in…

PM’s close personal friendship with Arab leaders has a little known dimension: his outreach to the crown princes of regional monarchies. That’s an investment in the future, crucial for India’s strategic leverage against Pakistan The establishment of substantial strategic ties with Gulf states is widely recognised as one of the big successes of Modi govt….

India-US tariff agreement shows you don’t always have to flatter Trump to get him to the table, you have to be smart about knowing what will get him there. Plus, Trump’s man in New Delhi was a big help There were many reasons to believe a US-India trade deal wouldn’t happen, or at least not…