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WhatsApp says Israeli spyware company targeted its users, including journalists, in over two dozen nations

India, Feb. 1 -- Meta's WhatsApp messenger service fears that around 90 users, including journalists and civil society members, were suspected to be the targets of a spyware campaign conducted by an I... Read More


LIVE Blog: Nirmala Sitharaman presents Union Budget 2025

New Delhi/IBNS, Feb. 1 -- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents Budget 2025 for the historic eighth time on Saturday. This is the first full budget since the Modi government returned to p... Read More


Sitharaman's tax bonanza trumps Kejriwal's demand, leaving AAP scrambling ahead of Delhi polls

New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- Weeks ago, Arvind Kejriwal unveiled AAP's manifesto with a bold demand-scrap income tax on earnings up to Rs 10 lakh. With the Delhi elections just around the corner, this middle... Read More


USA: Small private plane crashes in Philadelphia, six people, including child, feared dead

India, Feb. 1 -- At least six people, including a child, are feared dead after a small private plane crashed in the US city of Philadelphia on Friday. Several people were reportedly injured after the... Read More


Maldives sees biggest jump in India's development aid despite strained ties

New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- The Maldives has received the highest increase in India's development aid among Southeast Asian nations in the Union Budget 2025, following a tumultuous year in bilateral relation... Read More


Nirmala Sitharaman to present her 8th consecutive Union Budget today

India, Feb. 1 -- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her first full budget on Saturday, months after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government returned to power for the third st... Read More


8 AAP MLAs resign and join BJP just days before Delhi elections

New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- In a significant setback for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), eight of its MLAs resigned and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, just days before the Delhi Assembly ele... Read More


Union Budget 2025: Top 50 Indian tourist destinations to be developed

India, Feb. 1 -- Union Budget 2025-26 has identified tourism as a sector for employment-led growth and proposed to develop 50 top domestic tourismdestinations. Presenting Budget in Parliament on Satu... Read More


Union Budget 2025: Cancer, other patients get relief after 36 life-saving drugs, medicinesfully exempted from customs duty

India, Feb. 1 -- The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday proposed to add 36 life-saving drugs and medicines to the list of medicines fully exempted from Basic Cus... Read More


Chocko Valliappa on Centre for Excellence in AI for education sector in Union Budget

India, Feb. 1 -- Chocko Valliappa, Vice Chairman of Sona College of Technology, Salem, and Founder and CEO of Vee Technologies, on Saturday, praised the Union Budget for announcing to setting up of a ... Read More