India, Feb. 1 -- Budget 2025 cheaper and costlier list: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her eighth consecutive Union Budget for the fiscal year 2025-2026. Here are the items that have become cheaper and costlier for consumers.

This is the second full budget of the Modi 3.0 government, which returned to power at the Centre in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. This year's budget focuses on 10 broad areas, starting with agriculture, manufacturing, employment, MSMEs, uplifting rural areas, innovation.

"This budget aims to work on transformative reforms," Sitharaman said in her budget speech.

During last year's Union Budget, the finance minister had announced measures resulting in the reduction of mobile phone, gold, silver, and c...