Opinion

Budget 2026: A Delicate Balancing Act Between Growth Ambitions And Rising Unemployment

With total expenditure pegged at Rs 53.5 lakh crore and capital outlay raised to Rs 12.2 lakh crore, the Budget leans heavily on the familiar twin planks of fiscal consolidation and infrastructure-led ...

Union Budget 2026 Live: Sitharaman & Co target fiscal consolidation, cut Budget gap target

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed the House that the government has fulfilled its commitment made in 2021–22 to ...

Budget bets on capex, jobs and manufacturing to power growth; markets give it a thumbs down

Two of TNIE's experts were left unimpressed by a budget that was expected to do a lot of the heavy lifting with the world roiled by troubles headlined with a ca ...

‘Am I doomed forever?’ Credit card debit is overwhelming wealthier, educated Americans as prices stretch middle-class budgets. How to tackle your debt

Even households long considered financially secure are feeling the pressure.

Sambit Patra

Get all latest & breaking news on Sambit Patra. Watch videos, top stories and articles on Sambit Patra at moneycontrol.com.
The Brock PressOpinion

ICE, an American case study: how democracy corrodes

Minneapolis has become an international flashpoint with a blunt sequence of two shootings, two official narratives and a ...

Nirmala Sitharaman Union Budget 2026 Speech LIVE: ITR Revision Window Extended Till March 31; FY27 Fiscal Deficit Expected To Be 4.3% Of GDP

Get real-time coverage of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget Speech 2026. Latest updates on major announcements, tax proposals, sector-wise allocations, policy changes, economic ...

UPSC Key: India-Arab Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Modernisation of CPI inflation, and New Ramsar sites

How is knowing about the new Ramsar sites relevant to the UPSC exam? What significance do topics like Intrusion Detection ...