Indo-China Border Dispute

Healthcare and education are some of the important sectors that are usually not given the attention they deserve in India’s Union Budgets. It has been so for many years. But the situation this time is different. At a time when the country – indeed, the entire world – is working to tide over a health crisis presented by the coronavirus pandemic, will Budget 2021 make a departure from the trend and place its expenditure focus on these sectors? In the fifth episode of ‘Beyond Budget Headlines with AKB’, Business Standard’s special video series in the run-up to Budget 2021, we discuss about the expenditure side of the Budget and look at sectors that have traditionally not been India's top expense areas but are now in the spotlight because of recent developments. The government needs to loosen its purse string in this pandemic Budget and spend more on the health sector, says our in-house policy expert A K Bhattacharya.

The US will not stand for unprovoked, premeditated military action for intimidating peaceful nations into submission, an influential American lawmaker has said

The senior Congress leader took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks that 'nobody intruded into the Indian territory'

Bhutia, who has also dabbled in politics, termed the attack a 'planned one'.

Doctor MadhuThottappillil has been with the team since the IPL's inception and is a specialist in sports medicine

US President Donald Trump last week said he was 'ready, willing and able to mediate' between the two countries

Trump previously offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue, a proposal rejected by New Delhi which maintains that there is no role for any third party in bilateral issues.

He encouraged a herding family to set down roots in the border area, safeguard the Chinese territory and develop their hometown

An exclusive edited excerpt from former secretary Shyam Saran's How India Sees the World