Belt And Road News
Shashi Tharoor: Strategic autonomy requires India to pursue its interests without taking sides in geopolitics
India is aware that a friendly dragon has claws and a swooping eagle could lift its economy. Our foreign policy must not be guided by the theatre of summitry, but by the substance of strategic interest. This demands not just balance, but foresight.
4 min read13 Oct 2025Rahul Jacob: China hype’s sprucing up its image at home and abroad
A new book on China unfavourably compares a ‘lawyerly’ America with Beijing’s engineering can-do mindset. Dan Wang’s thesis in ‘Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future’ deserves a closer look.
4 min read10 Sep 2025Trump's tariffs on India: Can Narendra Modi plug in Act East policy with China's Belt and Road Initiative?
Trump's tariffs on India: The US's impending 50% tariff on Indian exports may provoke New Delhi to strengthen ties with Beijing and join the Belt and Road Initiative, experts say.
6 min read26 Aug 2025Cube Highways Trust completes acquisition of 2 highways in J&K from NIIF for ₹4,185 crore
National Investment and Infrastructure Fund, and Cube Highways Trust, both managed by Cube Highways Fund Advisors, announced on Thursday the successful transfer of two road projects from NIIF to Cube InvIT at an enterprise value of ₹4,185 crore.
3 min read12 Jun 2025NHAI looks to reduce arbitration dues by roping in more retired judges
Now, about a quarter of Sarod's arbitrators, 22 of 93, are retired judges—a strategy that ensures arbitral awards which would be difficult to challenge in court.
4 min read29 Mar 2025Xi Jinping’s next overseas-lending revolution
Welcome to a new era of Chinese debt
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Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared