UNION BUDGET 2022-23
Vol. LIX No. 45
Date: February 19, 2022
Purdah is Akin to Piety
With the revelation of the Qur’ān to His Last Messenger ﷺ, God perfected His Religion: “This day I have perfected for you your religion….” (The Qur’ān – 5:3) The perfection…
In Our India Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
The things have come to such a sorry state that one national leader had to speak about ‘two Indias we have created’. It is the bitter truth but we must…
UNION BUDGET 2022-23, Too Little for Social Sector Development
In this analytical article Dr. Jawed Alam Khan gathers that the total union budget expenditure as a proportion of the GDP has declined to 15.3 per cent in 2022-23 from…
Education Budget 2022-23, The Unfulfilled Quest for Quantity & Quality
There appears to be a ‘convenient federalism’ at play where while bulldozing its agenda over the states in all other matters, in financial terms, the Centre leaves the lion’s share…
Gleanings of Arabic Press 13-Feb-2022
Is there good colonialism and bad colonialism? Do not all the great powers historically operate with the mentality of monsters which use their surplus power to subdue, exploit, and even…
Men and Women Actors of Uttar Pradesh Amphitheatre
Soroor Ahmed analyses the electoral scenario in Uttar Pradesh where the poll is going to decide the political future of two men and two women.
A Trait Only a Few Possess-II
While it is relatively easier to be patient at times of adversity due to the incapacity of the individual to overcome the difficulty, it is not so easy to be…
Rajab al-Murajjab
Abu Bakrah relates that the Prophet ﷺ gave his Farewell Sermon and said: “Time has completed its cycle and is as it was on the Day when Allah created the…
A Lazy Budget – Missing the Rigour: Experts
We always debate the Union Budget but how the announcements made in the budget are going to be implemented is hardly taken care of. Apart from some worthy announcements, the…
Muslim World 13-Feb-2022
The state of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is a crime against humanity and is illegal under international law, Amnesty International said on February 1. The rights group says Israel’s “oppression…
Inside India 13-Feb-2022
A total of 1,807 communal riot cases were registered in different parts of the country during 2018-2020 in which 8,565 people were arrested, the Rajya Sabha was informed on February…
UNION BUDGET 2022-23, Non-Populist and Focussed
Budget speeches of Finance Ministers (FMs) of Union Governments, particularly their initial paragraphs, are written in good prose. This is true in the case of the presentations of Nirmala Sitharaman,…
Pegasus Haunts Again
Arshad Shaikh finds how the ghost of Pegasus continues to haunt the Government of India after the publication of an investigative piece in the New York Times. A Supreme Court…
Readers’ Pulse 13-Feb-2022
China is suppressing the Indo-China border issues. This is obvious and unsurprising to expect from the Chinese side. China is cognisant that the Pentagon provides India with satellite images of…
First Massive Protest against the Govt. over Ever-Increasing Unemployment It’s
While the country was celebrating the Republic Day on January 26, showcasing its military might to the world, the first massive protest against ever burgeoning unemployment erupted across the NDA-ruled…
