Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has committed to developing at least 100 GW of nuclear energy by 2047. In her Union budget for 2025-26, she also proposed setting up a Nuclear Energy Mission with an outlay of ₹20,000 crore. The mission will focus on research and development of small modular reactors (SMRs), with an aim to...
The FY26 budget announced a long thread of schemes for rural India, including a comprehensive multi-sectoral rural prosperity and resilience programme, grameen credit score and broadband connectivity for all government secondary schools and primary health centres. But experts say allocations should have been higher, especially towards schemes like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme...
Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have significantly increased their exposure to Indian debt markets, investing ₹23,703 crore in the first half of March 2025, even as they continued to offload equities aggressively, depository data showed. FPI inflows into debt markets this month have more than doubled from ₹10,517 crore in February and far exceeded January’s ₹571...
