Expert Analysis, Live Reactions, and Sector-Wise Impact Across Platforms
India’s leading business news destination, ET NOW is set to deliver wall-to-wall coverage of the Union Budget 2026, offering viewers sharp insights, real-time analysis, and expert perspectives on what the Union Budget means for India’s economy, markets, industries, and households.
ET NOW will bring live unmatched coverage 7:00 am onwards on Sunday – Feb 1st which will include setting up the context for the Union Budget and big numbers to watch out for, Finance Minister’s Budget speech live at 11:00 am, followed by in-depth decoding of key announcements, policy measures, and fiscal priorities.
ET NOW Think Tank is led by India’s renowned economist Swaminathan Aiyar who has covered over 50 Union Budgets since 1969. He will help viewers cut through the noise and decode the numbers, policies and risks that truly matter. His fiscal microscope will highlight the devil in the detail. The Think Tank panel also includes other marquee names like Rohington Sidhwa, Partner – Deloitte; George Joseph, ASK Investment Managers; R Gopalan, former Union Finance Secretary, Dinesh Kumar Khara, Ex Chairman SBI and Abhishek Pareek, Waaree Energies.
ET NOW Budget Editor Radhika Gupta, MD & CEO of Edelweiss Mutual Fund, joins ET NOW programming on Feb 1st 8:00 am onwards. She will help bring different perspective to the programming and will set the tone before the numbers hit markets.
Highlighting markets perspective will be market veterans like Nilesh Shah, Envision Capital; A Balasubramanian, ABSL AMC; Vijay Kedia, private investor; Porinju Veliyath, Equity Intelligence; Sunil Singhania, Abakkus Asset Manager; Nilesh Shah, Kotak MF; Saurabh Mukherjea, Marcellus Investment Managers; Nilesh Shah, Envision Capital; Madhusudan Kela, market veteran; Timothy Moe, Goldman Sachs; Mark Mobius, Mobius Emerging Opportunities Fund, Jonathan Garner, Morgan Stanley and many others.
Top voices from India Inc will decode the impact of budget announcements on their respective sectors and overall corporate sentiment. Rajiv Memani, president, CII; R Mukundan, president designate, CII; Piruz Khambatta, chairman, CII National Committee on Taxation; Anant Goenka, president, FICCI & vice chairman, RPG Group; Sandip Somany, past president, FICCI & CMD, Somany Impresa Group, Naina Lal Kidwai, past president, FICCI & chairperson, Rothschild & Co. (I) Pvt. Ltd. Apart from others, will share their views.
THE MONEY SHOW – PERSONAL FINANCE SPECIAL will decode how the Union Budget impacts the pockets of people in different income groups. The esteemed panel of guests include Dhirendra Kumar, Value Research; Vishal Kapoor, Bandhan AMC and Tarun Garg, Deloitte, among others.
Special broadcast at 9 pm – THE BUDGET AND YOU – will include people from different walks of life – employees, youth, senior citizens, housewives who will share their feedback on the Budget and how will it impact their households.