Opinion

Large and well capitalized NBFCs with a strong parentage should be allowed to access public deposits. (Photo: Mint)

Opinion | Budget 2020 wish list: More freedom for NBFCs to revive demand

4 min read . 05:45 PM IST

Photo: Hindustan Times

Opinion | Multidimensional approach needed to address jobs crisis

2 min read . 20 Jan 2020

finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

The Impartial Spectator

Opinion | Let this budget be a tide taken at the flood for reforms

4 min read . 20 Jan 2020

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her second Budget on February 1. (iStock)

Opinion | Budget: It will take three to tango in 2020

5 min read . 18 Jan 2020

Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Opinion | Govt needs to speed up the flow of private capital into infra sector

2 min read . 17 Jan 2020

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh. (Bloomberg)

Opinion | Govt will do well to draw lessons from the Manmohan playbook

2 min read . 16 Jan 2020

File Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

Opinion | The right resources will follow the right results on the ground

2 min read . 13 Jan 2020

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Opinion | Govt must step up expenditure to revive growth in short term

2 min read . 09 Jan 2020

A file photo of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo: Raj K. Raj/Hindustan Times )

Opinion | A growth figure that’s low but not disastrous

2 min read . 07 Jan 2020

A file photo of Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Opinion | There is a case for shorter and sweeter Union Budget speeches

4 min read . 07 Jan 2020

The economy has lost momentum for five quarters in a row. The anticipated cyclical recovery in the second half of this financial year will only be a mild one, at best. (Photo: iStock)

Opinion | A good budget this year would take the skill of a trapeze artist

4 min read . 07 Jan 2020

A key problem that faces the Indian budget is that too few people pay income tax, with just 3.23 crore people filing ITR-1. (Reuters)

Expense Account

Budget should clean up capital gains, DDT mess

4 min read . 07 Jan 2020

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman with minister of state for finance Anurag Thakur and her team of finance ministry officials in New Delhi (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Opinion | A platform to deliver aspirations while balancing fiscal constraints

3 min read . 08 Jul 2019

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman with MoS finance Anurag Thakur and other ministry officials. Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Opinion | Budget 2019: Result-oriented, well-balanced and pragmatic

2 min read . 08 Jul 2019

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a press conference after her maiden Budget speech. (Bloomberg)

Opinion | Sitharaman’s Budget proposals put people at the heart of the economy

3 min read . 06 Jul 2019

Expense Account

Opinion | This eat-the-rich budget looks at much more than a few mounds of rice

3 min read . 06 Jul 2019

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi on Friday. (PTI )

As economy cools off, India may struggle to achieve $5 trillion GDP by 2024

4 min read . 06 Jul 2019

If the Indian economy does relatively well, the rupee should appreciate and that’s good for striking the $5 trillion target.

We can strike the GDP target, provided economy does well, rupee appreciates

7 min read . 06 Jul 2019

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (C) and Krishnamurthy Subramanian (R), chief economic adviser. (Reuters )

Opinion | Growth outlook for FY20 will be shaped more by extra-budgetary forces

3 min read . 06 Jul 2019

FM’s call to duty for high-income earners: Pay more for nation building

3 min read . 06 Jul 2019