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New Delhi, Feb 1 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday presented a Rs 53.47 lakh crore budget for 2026-27, up 7.7 per cent from the current financial year ending March 31.As per the Revised Estimate, the size of the budget for the current fiscal i..

New Delhi, Jan 31 As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gears up to table the Union Budget 2026-27 in Parliament on February 1, economists say the emphasis this year will be on defence, infrastructure, capex, power, and higher growth in affor-dable housi..

Baramati, Jan 28: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four other persons on board an aircraft were killed after it crashed near the Baramati airport in Maharashtra’s Pune district on Wednesday.Pawar had taken off from Mumbai in the morn..

JAIPUR, Jan 20 : Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday (January 20, 2026) expressed concern over reports that a State team participating in the National School Games in Manipur was allegedly held hostage at gunpoint and robbed.Calling th..

New Delhi, Jan 12Union Home Minister Amit Shah said today that the BJP's success in Kerala was not easy, but the party has steadily strengthened due to the efforts of dedicated workers. Accusing the LDF and UDF of corruption, appeasement, and "match-fixin..

New Delhi, Jan 10 The Union Budget for 2025-26 will be tabled in Par- liament on February 1 - a Sunday - and the Economic Survey, which is a precursor to the budget document, will be presented by Chief Eco-nomic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on January 29...

New Delhi, Dec 30Students from the North East on Wednesday staged a protest at the Jantar Mantar here demanding justice for Tripura student Anjel Chakma, who died of a stab injury in Dehradun recently.Hundreds of students from the North East participated..

NEW DELHI, Dec 21President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025, marking a major overhaul of India’s rural employment framework, the Ministry of Rur..

NEW DELHI, Dec 18 : The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025 -- which was passed by the Lok Sabha on Thursday -- repeals the MGNREGA and paves the way for a structural transformation of the government's role in the r..

New Delhi, Dec 7IndiGo is on track to operate over 1,650 flights, up from 1,500 yesterday, the airline said in a status update this evening. It said 137 out of 138 destinations are in operation with on-time performance of 75 per cent, up from 30 per cent..

Allahabad, Dec 2The Allahabad High Court recently directed all District Magistrates (DMs) in Uttar Pradesh (UP) to look into cases where individuals who have converted from Hinduism to other religions are fraudulently using Scheduled Caste (SC) or similar..

NEW DELHI, Nov 29 : The Enforcement Directorate has uncovered a cross-border narcotics network in which Myanmarese nationals allegedly misused the GST credentials of Indian citizens to buy chemicals used in drug manufacturing, according to a PTI report.Th..

New Delhi, Nov 24 (PTI)Justice Surya Kant, who has been part of several landmark verdicts, including on abrogation of Article 370 removing Jammu and Kashmir's special status and Bihar electoral rolls revision, took oath as the 53rd Chief Justice of India..

New Delhi, Nov 23Parliament is set to take up a major reform in higher education when the winter session begins on December 1, with the Government preparing to introduce a Bill that will create a new single regulator to replace bodies like the UGC, AICTE..

Hyderabad/Jeddah, Nov 17: At least 45 persons, majority of them Umrah pilgrims from Telangana capital Hyderabad, were killed in Saudi Arabia's Medina after their bus collided with an oil tanker, officials said on Monday.Citing preliminary information, Hyd..

Patna, Nov 15: Following the NDA’s sweeping victory in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections, hectic political activity has begun around the formation of the new Government in the State.Senior leaders of the BJP, JD(U), and allied parties have intensifi..

NEW DELHI, Nov 11Jammu and Kashmir police have conducted raids at different parts of the Valley and detained six persons for questioning following the powerful explosion in a car near Delhi’s Red Fort Metro Station on Monday evening.The detained per..

New Delhi, Nov 10A high-intensity explosion ripped through a car parked near the Red Fort metro station on Monday evening, gutting several vehicles and killing at least thirteen people, officials said.Twenty-four people were injured in the blast that took..

New Delhi, Nov 8The Winter session of Parliament will be held from December 1 to 19, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju announced on Saturday, in what the Opposition has described as an "unusually delayed" and truncated session.The three-we..

NEW DELHI, Oct 28 The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved the Terms of Reference (ToR) of 8th Pay Commission, which will revise the salaries of nearly 50 lakh Central Government employees. Former Supreme Court Judge Ranjana Prakash Desai will be heading the..

New Delhi, Oct 25The Election Commission is likely to roll out the first of pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' list next week beginning with "10 to 15 States", including those going to polls next year, officials said Saturday.Assam, Tam..

New Delhi, Oct 21 Air quality in Delhi deteriorated to hazardous levels on Tuesday, with readings the highest in the world, according to Swiss group IQAir, partly due to the use of firecrackers during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.The Supreme Court..

Gumla, Oct 11: Jharkhand Police arrested a cybercriminal from Manipur, an officer said on Saturday.The police took action after a written complaint was filed at Gumla police station by Amruudin Khan, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar, Gumla, regarding a cyber..

NEW DELHI, Oct 3 : India could experience the biggest impacts of chikungunya in the long-term, potentially putting 51 lakh people at risk of the mosquito-borne infection every year, a global modelling study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) G..

NEW DELHI, Sep 28India is contending with a disquieting resurgence of communicable diseases in the aftermath of Covid-19. Globally, the pandemic offi-cially claimed 7,010,681 lives, though excess mor-tality estimates suggest that nearly 15-18 million peri..