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Customs duties on 17 cancer drugs slashed, eases baggage rules

India, Feb. 2 -- The Budget 2026-27 has simplified customs regime by rationalising exemptions, waiving customs duty on 17 cancer drugs, while easing baggage rules and reducing duty to 10 per cent on g... Read More


Customs duty rationalisation to help boost exports, promote manufacturing: Experts

India, Feb. 2 -- The announcements in the Budget with regard to customs duty rationalisation will help boost exports and promote domestic manufacturing, experts and exporters said.The Union Budget 202... Read More


Stage set for India's biggest tax reset

India, Feb. 2 -- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the Income Tax Act, 2025 will be implemented from April 1 and rules and tax returns forms will be notified shortly. Beginning April ... Read More


Budget Reactions

India, Feb. 2 -- Cong slams Govt Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said the Modi Government has run out of ideas, and the Union Budget for 2026-27 does not provide any single solution t... Read More


PM Modi hails futuristic budget

India, Feb. 2 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described the Union Budget 2026-27 as ambitious and futuristic, stressing that it will further strengthen India's global role. In his televised ... Read More


Budget sinks Dalal Street

India, Feb. 2 -- Stock market dipped on Sunday after the budget. Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty dived sharply by nearly 2 per cent after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed a hike i... Read More


Defence gets a big boost

India, Feb. 2 -- Giving top priority to national security, defence outlay for the next fiscal has seen a big jump of nearly 16 per cent with a massive INR 7,84,678 crore allocation. The first budget a... Read More


A budget for scale, stability, strategy

India, Feb. 2 -- The Union Budget for 2026-27, presented in Parliament today by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is best read as a deliberate consolidation of the Government's medium-term economic... Read More


15 Pakistani soldiers, 92 militants killed in security operations in Balochistan

India, Feb. 2 -- At least 15 Pakistani soldiers and 92 militants were killed in multiple counter-terrorism operations carried out by security forces in restive Balochistan province, the army said on S... Read More


Iran says it now considers EU militaries to be terrorist groups

India, Feb. 2 -- The speaker of Iran's parliament said Sunday that the Islamic Republic now considers all European Union militaries to be terrorist groups, lashing out after the bloc declared the coun... Read More