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Exclusive: Sitharaman's Budget speech tomorrow set to be unique, focus on long-term goals

India, Jan. 31 -- Breaking from long-standing tradition, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to deliver a Union Budget speech on Sunday, February 1, that will place unprecedented emphasis on Pa... Read More


Additional excise duty on tobacco, health cess on pan masala to be effective from Feb 1

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- An additional excise duty on cigarettes and tobacco products, and a health cess on pan masala, over and above the highest 40 per cent GST rate, will come into effect from Februar... Read More


Sunetra Pawar meets NCP leaders ahead of legislature party meeting

Mumbai, Jan. 31 -- NCP leaders Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare on Saturday met Sunetra Pawar at the official residence of her late husband Ajit Pawar here ahead of the legislature party meeting. NCP w... Read More


The week in charts: India-EU FTA, 2026 Padma Awards, India's EM ranking

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- india eu fta, emerging market tracker, mint em tracker, padma awards 2026, economic survey 2026, india gdp forecast, union budget 2026, adventure tourism india, industrial produc... Read More


How Kashmir is emerging as the home of the world's largest handmade silk carpets

Srinagar, Jan. 31 -- After years of being eroded by machine-made imports, political uncertainty and the slow exit of skilled artisans, Kashmir's carpet industry is repositioning itself at the very top... Read More


Architect of chaos: Harshad Mehta and the price of reform

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- In July 1991, India dismantled the four-decade-old Licence Raj and embraced economic liberalization. Over the next few months, as unprecedented foreign capital poured in, a pecul... Read More


Maharashtra gets 1st woman Deputy CM; NCP tight-lipped on merger

Mumbai, Jan. 31 -- Sunetra Pawar, the wife of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, on Saturday took oath as Maharashtra's first woman Deputy Chief Minister, days after her husband and f... Read More


CBI to probe Patna NEET aspirant's death amid allegations of police lapses

Patna, Jan. 31 -- Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday recommended a CBI probe into the suspicious death of a NEET aspirant at a girls' hostel in Patna. For over three weeks, the state police... Read More


UP empowers ministers; project approval limit hiked to rRs.r50 cr

India, Jan. 31 -- LUCKNOW In a significant move to accelerate development ahead of the 2027 UP Assembly elections, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday authorised a major enhancement in the financ... Read More


TIB slams draft media ordinances as 'mockery' of free press

Dhaka, Jan. 31 -- Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Saturday described the draft National Media Commission and Broadcasting Commission Ordinances as a 'parting mockery' of public expectat... Read More