Budget 2023: Opposition slams 'limited focus' on health, education

Opposition leaders slammed the Centre on Wednesday for its 'limited' focus on important sectors like health and education in the Budget for 2023-24 fiscal. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi......

Full text: President Murmu's address to Parliament's Budget Session

‘Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the......

Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

US' longest war in Afghanistan ends with Taliban's return to power

America has ended its longest war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has announced, hours after the final United States evacuation plane flew out of Kabul airport amidst celebratory gunfire from......

'Post-Budget, IT cos gearing up for acquisitions'

The much anticipated Budget announcements are over. The entire Opposition walked out from the Lok Sabha in protest terming the Budget as 'inflationary'. The FM changed the slabs cutting the rate to......

Govt promises transparency, accountability

The government plans to set up a commission to reform the financial sector laws and institute an independent evaluation office among others, to bring about more transparency and public......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......

Pranab Mukherjee's Interim Budget speech

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also managing the finance ministry, presented the Interim Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Monday. Following is the text of the entire Budget......