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Budget clubs IT services, offers 15.5% safe harbour to woo global firms

Safe harbour for IT services shall be approved by an automated rule-driven process without any need for tax officer to examine and accept the application IMAGE: People watch the live telecast of...

Operation Sindoor Inspires Rise In Defence Budget

'If you go by the capital expenditure, this is a good defence budget. But we will have to see if the government can keep defence spending at 2 per cent or higher in 2027-2028.' IMAGE: India...

India, UAE seal defence pact, set $200 bn trade target

India and the United Arab Emirates on Monday unveiled plans to have a strategic defence partnership and sealed an LNG deal as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed...

Trump's Huge Venezuela Gamble

I am inclined to believe that the Venezuela adventure is not an indication of American strength, alas, but rather of American weakness, points out Rajeev Srinivasan. IMAGE: US President Donald...

Why 2026 Is Crucial Year For India's Military

'The tools of warfare are changing. The MoD must deepen its engagement with technology thinkers that can present compelling visions of where warfare may be heading.' IMAGE: Indian Army personnel...

Budget 2026 backs jobs, tech and capital markets

The Budget emerges as a measured, credible and forward-looking policy document that reinforces India’s commitment to remaining a stable, reform-oriented economy amid an increasingly fragmented...

What Budget 2026 Says About Taxes

This Budget positions India's taxation ideology as not merely a revenue source but as a strategic catalyst for growth, inclusion and long-term confidence. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala...

Nirmala Sitharaman: 'Focus Of Budget Was To Keep Stable Growth Going'

'We kept this Budget on a larger plank, rather than on one incident, however serious.' IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the Budget session, February 5,...

Why Budget 2026 Deserves 8.5/10

This is the first Budget in my memory of Budgets over the last half a century which has embraced upfront, enthusiastically and emphatically, technology, modernity and fiscal sobriety, notes...

UP ramps up services to achieve $50 bn export goal, eyes $1-trn economy

To meet its $50-billion export target by 2030, the Uttar Pradesh government is looking to significantly scale up services sector, with a focus on Information Technology (IT) and Global Capability...

'The Soldiers Ordered Us To Be Strip-Searched'

'...including my baby sisters, age three and one.''My dad was humiliated, and he started screaming at them.' IMAGE: Adam Bakri in All That's Left of You. In the summer of 2023, Palestinian...

Victor Lai's rise amid Canada's badminton struggles

'Self-funded is a big one. We don't travel as a team so we don't have a therapist, treatment support or a trainer. A lot of times you're training on your own and it's tough.'    IMAGE: World No....

What ails Windies cricket... Lack of funds or passion?

'It's like India now. Everybody wants India to tour, because that's where the financial gains are. India brings that to the home territory. That was West Indies in the past.' IMAGE: After the...

'I Want To Achieve What Lin Dan Did For China'

'If there's no financial support, talent doesn't get a chance to blossom.' IMAGE: Mansi Singh won the women's singles title at the Mangalore India International Challenge. Photograph: Kind...