Page 33 - Editorial Comment

Bond market message

Conducting monetary policy will become more challenging

Lower allocation

Budget for rural India may need to be revisited

Next steps on privatisation

Budget detaches the programme from fiscal needs

What next for vaccines?

Budget numbers suggest govt reducing the scale

Fiscal constraints

India needs to boost tax-to-GDP ratio

The risks of minimalism

One should not rule out Ms Sitharaman doing better than what she has projected for next year's total revenue numbers

No self-congratulation

Economic Survey wrestles with growth impact of pandemic

Learning to grow

States should give school reopening priority

A historic moment

Air India privatisation is a milestone in India's reforms

Deeper correction

Geo-politics & monetary policy have increased market risks

No online targeting

New EU law should become the global benchmark

India's Ukraine 'challenge'

The big picture must figure in strategic calculations

Sinking city

Danger of land subsidence is increasing in NCR

Risks to recovery

Global economy will increase policy complications for India

Fair valuation

Revaluation of land will be of limited use for CPSEs

Ambition to reality

Govt's high expectations from electronics exports need work

Bose's legacy

A statue offers a reminder of his secularism and egalitarian outlook

A broad-based Budget

Central theme must be low-skilled job creation

Combative federalism

Proposed IAS rule change weakens Centre-state relations

Avoidable delay

India would have gained from an early 5G roll-out