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New Delhi [India], February 2 (ANI): On the auspicious occasion of Basant Panchami and Saraswati Puja Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders extended their wishes to the people, praying for wisdom, prosperity, and well-being. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to X and wrote, “Best wishes on the auspicious occasions of Basant Panchami and Saraswati […]

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday wrote to the Election Commission of India alleging “intimidation and harassment” of AAP volunteers by Bharatiya Janata Party workers and the Delhi police. “I am writing to express my grave concern over the intimidation and harassment being meted out to our grass-root volunteers in the […]

NASHIK: Three people died and four were injured when their vehicle collided with another on Samruddhi Expressway near Wavi, nearly 60km from this north Maharashtra city, on Saturday morning. All of them were returning home after attending the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj.Saturday’s 3 fatalities take the total number of such deaths since the start of […]

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday met the victims of the Maha Kumbh stampede at a hospital here. He inquired about their well-being from the doctors and directed the medical staff to provide them with the best possible care, an official statement said. Thirty people were killed and 60 others were injured during […]

India on Saturday announced plans to amend its nuclear liability law and set up a nuclear energy mission, a move that came ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s likely visit to the US. New Delhi made public its decision to amend the nuclear liability law a little over two weeks after Washington lifted restrictions on […]

Union Budget 2025 Highlights: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday presented the Budget for the third term of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, providing significant tax relief to the salaried middle class that was struggling with high prices and stagnant wages.  Making a slew of announcements, Ms Sitharaman said individuals having an annual […]

In a significant move under Budget 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that gig workers will now be eligible for the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), the world’s largest health insurance scheme. This initiative aims to provide crucial healthcare coverage to gig workers who do not receive traditional employment benefits. Who Are […]

If budgetary proposals are anything to go by, the decadal census is unlikely to be carried out in 2025 as well with a meagre Rs 574.80 crore allocated for the exercise in the Budget presented on Saturday. A meeting of the Union Cabinet on December 24, 2019 had approved the proposal for conducting a census […]

The 2025 Union Budget – which contained big-ticket announcements on revised income tax slabs and an increase to the rebate ceiling, from Rs 7 lakh to Rs 12 lakh – was a response to the ‘voice of the people’, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Saturday, hours after her speech in the Lok Sabha. An estimated […]

Basant Panchami is the festival that marks the change from winter to spring. Hindus celebrate this festival in honour of Goddess Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom, learning, and the arts. In 2025, it falls on Sunday, February 2. The auspicious Panchami Tithi, or the fifth lunar day, starts at 9:14 AM on February 2 and […]

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech was possibly the shortest she has delivered in her eight consecutive presentations, but it packed the strongest punch in terms of political implications, marking the possible return of the middle classes to the BJP fold. On Saturday (February 1, 2025), Ms. Sitharaman announced a major rejig of tax slabs, […]

The capital allocation for the Defence Ministry saw a meagre 4.65% increase to ₹1.8 lakh crore from the previous estimates, important considering the inflation and the currency fluctuations, as the armed forces are likely to return ₹12,500 crore from the budget estimates to the revised estimates of 2024-25. The total allocation to the Defence Ministry […]