A JOB WELL DONE

The middle class gets massive tax cuts, the economy a consumption boost and the promise of reforms, whose execution will put India on the path to higher growth

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IT was not expected to be an ordinary budget. The first full budget after the Narendra Modi government took charge for a third consecutive time, it had the hopes of an entire nation riding on it.

Would it arrest the slowdown of the Indian economy and put it on the high growth path to Viksit Bharat? Would the country be able to face the headwinds caused by the second Donald Trump presidency in America, especially on the export front, after he dubbed India as the tariff king? China, meanwhile, has launched a war of a different kind with DeepSeek, its cheaper, more efficient answer to America's ChatGPT. What must India do to ensure it's not left behind in Industrial Revolution 4.0?