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Sunita Narain: Just words, no action
The FM wants credit for acting on environment, but does the wrong things
Sukumar Mukhopadhyay: The wrong way to raise revenue
This Budget should have reduced exemptions, not raised tax rates
Mukesh Butani: A Budget with balance
But Mr Chidambaram could have done more to calm investors
Subir Gokarn: The impossible trinity?
The Budget tried to please politicians, rating agencies and reformists, and let them all down - slightly
Anjani Kumar: Super-rich tax? Redo the I-T slabs first
An equitable tax regime makes more sense than debates over whether the rich should pay more
T S Vishwanath: Balancing trade and farming
The G33 nations ask for more flexibility on farm subsidies in WTO talks
Kanika Datta: Media's Big Day
More than two decades after economic liberalisation, the government continues to play such a massive role in the economy and industry that the Budget has become a big-bang revenue-earning exercise for
Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng: Rule without law
China struggles to change a system in which legal problems are 'solved' administratively
The perils of forecasting
The Economic Survey is both optimistic and sensible
Great harvest, bad news
Record procurement of winter foodgrain - again
INSIGHT: The Extreme Forecast
Extreme forecasts as it seems are more regular than rare
Vrishti Beniwal: GST gets a conditional lease of life
The 'broad consensus' at Bhubaneswar last month still leaves this landmark tax reform with several unresolved issues
M J Antony: The long road to debt recovery
Both lenders and borrowers use legal armoury to serve their interests
Railways halts its slide
But there's no real plan to turn it around
Those who stand and wait
Poor, illiterate passengers in unreserved compartments of long-distance trains endure excruciatingly inhuman journeys
Devangshu Datta: Triple-witching on Budget day
Potentially explosive developments on the global financial front could upstage the impact of Chidambaram's February 28 show
A K Bhattacharya: The spendthrift states
State finance ministers are relying on Central transfers rather than their own tax efforts to bridge their deficits