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Budget 2025: Enabling 'Heal in India' through equitable healthcare

Digital healthcare gets a major push, with broadband connectivity planned for all primary healthcare centres (PHCs) and rural schools

Money in people's hands, and more: Budget balances growth, fiscal goals

As expected, the Revised Estimate of the fiscal deficit for the current financial year was pegged at 4.8 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP)

Union Budget 2025-26: Accelerating India's march towards Viksit Bharat

The enhancement of the credit guarantee cover for MSMEs from Rs 5 crore to Rs 10 crore should make more credit available to these units, which are significant employment generators

It's time to adapt: Climate action key to Viksit Bharat and economic growth

Increased global temperatures will exacerbate the frequency and severity of climate change impacts and the consequent losses

Best of BS Opinion: India's many blossoms: Growth and unexpected turns

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

The growth path: Economic Survey 2025 presents a realistic assessment

It discussed the medium- to long-term challenges in detail, which should guide policymaking

Economic Survey hits some right notes amid global economic uncertainty

The first thing that stands out from the Survey is its realism when it comes to growth expectations

In defence of Murthy & Subrahmanyan: Valuing entrepreneurs and job creators

It's easy to beat up on the corporations. But a society that does not give its entrepreneurs, wealth & jobs creators love and respect, is doomed to be frozen in a low-middle-income status

Recruitment tales from the past: How smart ads created success stories

Smart recruitment ads can work wonders. Sometimes they can turn first-time entrepreneurs into crorepatis

Economic Survey 2024-25 outlines reforms agenda for 'Viksit Bharat'

The Survey, while underplaying the short-term outlook, takes a wider and long-term perspective on growth and presents a reform agenda in order to achieve the 2047 goal

The changing face of the Dalits: Budget as a catalyst for empowerment

The biggest angst of Dalit groups is the issue of manual scavenging

A pitcher of humanity: The evolving significance of the Kumbh Mela

Through history, the Mela has held different meanings for ascetics, the colonised, colonisers, and tourists-but all have been moved by its grandeur

Best of BS Opinion: India's many national security concerns, and more

Our selection of editorial and columns today look at the importance of the new Critical Minerals Mission, India-China ties, ideas for the Union Budget to jump-start growth, and more

Brace for change: A key development on the anvil is the green taxonomy

The central bank is in the process of finalising and issuing a guidance note on scenario analysis and stress testing of climate-related risks

Budget: Govt faces choice between economic stimulus and structural reforms

The former could take the form of a tax cut, while the latter could involve a stimulus targeted at specific segments of the economy, particularly those linked to employment generation

Everyday Reading: Tracing the evolution of Hindi magazine culture

Diving into Everyday Reading raises many questions. Did the consumer become a passive viewer with the rise of television as opposed to active participation in the magazines?

India, China agree on better ties, but border tensions still persist

The language and tenor of the statements issued by both countries suggest a new cordiality five years after incursions by China along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh

Journalism and technology: Why Elon Musk is not media's Enemy No 1

Good journalism has a place and purpose. If every X user is the media, who ensures the facts?

Securing critical minerals: India's new mission for future growth

There is, of course, an important national-security element to this effort. Globally, the extraction and processing of critical minerals are dominated by China

Aser 2024: Learning gaps persist, but signs of progress emerge in education

Despite improvements, Aser shows wide learning gaps