COVER STORY
This year’s Budget throws in some original reforms with regard to direct taxes
Outlook Magazine - 12 February 2018
Investment in Railways needs careful monitoring in light of poor performance
Suddenly, ryots get false hopes. In poll year, harvest isn’t all about field crops.
A low fiscal deficit on his mind, the FM plays it safe with taxes. Only the old have reason to smile.
Jaitley promises succour, belatedly, to aggrieved sectors. But is it too thin a supply of oxygen for India’s distressed?
A sudden spurt in Haryana’s crime points to an administration that lacks in political will and is pressured by caste politics. The CM, though, will ‘remain’.
Changed public sentiment puts Dhaka in a cleft stick on hasty repatriation of Myanmar refugees
I salute you, DM of Bareilly. Sure, Chandan Gupta shouldn’t have been killed in Kasganj and we grieve for him, but there is no need to bully our fellow citizens, just to prove the colonialists right.
Investment in Railways needs careful monitoring in light of poor performance
Suddenly, ryots get false hopes. In poll year, harvest isn’t all about field crops.
Rural development schemes have been allocated record sums
A low fiscal deficit on his mind, the FM plays it safe with taxes. Only the old have reason to smile.
Jaitley promises succour, belatedly, to aggrieved sectors. But is it too thin a supply of oxygen for India’s distressed?
A sudden spurt in Haryana’s crime points to an administration that lacks in political will and is pressured by caste politics. The CM, though, will ‘remain’.
Changed public sentiment puts Dhaka in a cleft stick on hasty repatriation of Myanmar refugees
I salute you, DM of Bareilly. Sure, Chandan Gupta shouldn’t have been killed in Kasganj and we grieve for him, but there is no need to bully our fellow citizens, just to prove the colonialists right.
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