If fiscal deficit can help generate demand and take the sluggish economy forward, there is no reason why the government should ignore this time-tested solution.
Modi government lost some reformist zeal by the end of its first term. The slowdown may be a cyclical thing tied to global trade matters: Richard Rossow
Instead of introducing individual clauses to deal with situations, the government should equip CCI with ample powers to deal with the changing business environment.
Though there has been a major effort to reduce policy uncertainty, more needs to be done in the areas of technology, communications, mining and retail where India needs huge investments.
Kerala finance minister Thomas Isaac is one of the most articulate members of the GST Council. A trained economist, Isaac is a votary of fiscal federalism.
The thumping mandate in favour of the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls seems to have changed the equations between the two alliance partners. There are indications that the BJP may not be willing to cede the space it did to the JD
Budget 2019 India: The gross tax to GDP ratio is projected to decline to 11.7 per cent in the current financial year compared with the revised figure of 11.9 per cent for the last fiscal.
India Budget 2019: A lasting solution to the crisis is outside the scope of the Budget. The government needs to unleash bold reforms in the sector and push for modernisation of agriculture to fix the problem.
Barring Karnataka - and Telangana to an extent -- the BJP had a dismal outing in the South. The biggest disappointment was that Kerala continued to defy an all-pervading Modi wave and refused to send a BJP member to the Lok S
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, CPM had put up 70 candidates, just to win three, compared with nine in 2014. The CPI had fielded 51 candidates, just to get two elected.
Even if Mayawati manages a good number of seats from Uttar Pradesh, her ability to articulate a national vision for a ragtag coalition will put her skills to test
If you have education and health, you can conquer the world. With either of them absent, you have a major handicap. If you want to make somebody independent, then you need education.
West Bengal, Bihar and Chhattisgarh emerged the largest beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat, Narendra Modi government's flagship healthcare insurance scheme.