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- India
Budget 2026: Your income tax remains same, more time to file returns
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday, February 1, proposed to increase the time limit for filing the revised income tax returns (ITR); however, no changes were made to income tax (IT) rates…
- Automobile
Union Budget 2026: FM extends tax exemption for lithium-ion battery equipment
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday, February 1, announced an extension of basic customs duty exemption on capital goods used for manufacturing lithium-ion cells for battery storage in the annual…
- India
Budget proposes Rs 10,000 cr investment in biopharma over next 5 years
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday proposed Rs 10,000 crore investment in the biopharma sector over the next five years, a move which would give a boost to the country’s…
- World
India to buy Venezuelan oil instead of Iranian crude, claims Trump
New York: US President Donald Trump has claimed that India will be purchasing oil from Venezuela instead of Iran. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One while flying to Palm Beach in…
- Business
Eight FTAs finalised in last few years, covering 37 developed countries: Goyal
New Delhi: India has finalised eight free trade agreements (FTAs), covering 37 developed countries in the last few years, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said. He also said that India…
- Business
Union Budget 2026: Govt announces one girls’ hostel in every district
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget 2026-2027 on Sunday, February 1, announced the setting up of one girls’ hostel in every district of the country. There…
- India
Union Budget 2026: Proposal to extend deadline for revised I-T returns
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday, February 1, proposed to increase time limit for filing revised I-T return from December 31 to March 31, on payment of nominal fee. The…
- India
Pollution now a national health emergency, govt must act: Rahul
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday, February 1 said pollution is no longer just an environmental issue but a national health emergency, and asserted that Parliament must discuss it as…
- India
Cabinet approves Union Budget 2026-27
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday, February 1, approved the Union Budget 2026-27. Following the approval, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her ninth record…
- India
Sunetra Pawar took oath without Sharad Pawar’s knowledge: NCP (SP)
Mumbai: NCP (SP) Maharashtra President Shashikant Shinde has claimed his party chief Sharad Pawar and other leaders had no prior knowledge about NCP leader Sunetra Pawar’s swearing-in as the state’s Deputy Chief…
- India
India, Arab League back two-state solution for Palestine
New Delhi: India and the Arab League nations on Saturday, January 31, laid out a broader vision for deeper two-way ties, pitched for a sovereign and viable Palestine state living side-by-side with…
- World
US Embassy in India pauses social media operations amid govt shutdown
Amid the partial shutdown of the US government that started on Saturday, January 31, the social media account of the US Embassy in India announced that it will pause its operations, except…
- Delhi
Arab Foreign Ministers Call on PM Modi During India-Arab Meet in Delhi
New Delhi: Foreign Ministers of Arab countries on Saturday, January 31, called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who appreciated their role in supporting peace and stability in West Asia. The foreign ministers…
- India
Sunetra Pawar takes oath as Maharashtra’s first woman Dy Chief Minister
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Rajya Sabha member Sunetra Pawar was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, replacing her deceased husband and party chief Ajit Pawar, at the Lok…
- India
‘Moonwalking’ Indore cop demoted for social media ‘indiscipline’
A traffic policeman in Madhya Pradesh‘s Indore, known as a ‘dancing cop’ for moonwalking on the city streets, has been demoted to the rank of constable from head constable for his “indiscipline”…
