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Union Budget 2025: Budget only for polls and allies, says Opposition

Several Chief Ministers, including Tamil Nadu's M K Stalin and Karnataka's Siddaramaiah, criticised the Budget for ignoring the demands and needs of their states, while favouring only Bihar

Budget 2025: From Siddaramaiah to Nitish Kumar, here are CMs' views

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar calls Budget 'progressive' while Karnataka CM SIddaramaiah said that it has given Karnataka an 'empty vessel'

A people's Budget, to lift consumption & investment: PM Narendra Modi

In his televised remarks after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Budget in the Lok Sabha, Modi flagged the measures for the shipbuilding industry

Budget: Bihar gets the lion's share; tax relief with eye on middle class

The projects for Bihar in Budget 2025-26 add to the Rs 59,000 cr that the FM allocated to the state in July

Govt's pace of work tripled with focus on middle class: President Murmu

The President's previous two speeches to joint sittings of Parliament, on January 31, 2024, and June 27, 2024, had stressed on the government's efforts at empowering the "four pillars"

Prayed to Goddess Lakshmi to bless poor, middle-class: PM Narendra Modi

The PM said that on the occasion of the start of the Budget Session, it is customary to remember Goddess Lakshmi, who bestows wisdom, prosperity, and welfare

Back to business: Govt lines up key Bills as Budget Session begins today

The session will begin with President Droupadi Murmu's address to the joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabling the Economic Survey 2024-25

NDA's policies marching India forward into the middle income trap: Congress

Congress leader P Chidambaram released the report prepared by the party's Research Department, which former Rajya Sabha M V Rajeev Gowda heads

Govt, private school enrolments back to 2018 levels: ASER report

ASER report says more boys know how to use smartphone

Union Budget 2025: Focus on allies, Bihar, and middle-class relief

2025 will see the fewest Assembly polls in any year during the current five-year term, therefore the Budget will be presented in a more favourable political context for the government

18% candidates in Delhi Assembly polls have assets above Rs 5 crore: ADR

Among major parties, the average assets of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate amount to about Rs 22.90 crore. The party has fielded 68 candidates in the polls

Uttarakhand first state after Goa to implement Uniform Civil Code

CM Dhami first to register his marriage on UCC portal

Welfare schemes alone no guarantee for votes, delivery and finances matter

Beneficiaries of such programmes give credit to central govt, but study finds poor service delivery, financial well-being influence voting pattern, writes ARCHIS MOHAN

Republic Day parade: Indonesia's contingent, tri-services tableau shine

Subianto's presence at the parade came 75 years after Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, attended India's first Republic-Day celebrations in 1950 as the chief guest

Delays in civic polls spotlight weak state election commissions' powers

According to a survey, 61 per cent of urban local bodies in 15 major states, including Karnataka, saw delayed civic elections

Ayodhya Ram Mandir attracted more domestic tourists than Agra in 2024

OYO said it will add over 150 hotels in Ayodhya, 100 in Varanasi and 50 each in Prayagraj, Haridwar, and Puri

Donald Trump 2.0: India to take back 18,000 illegal migrants from US

The US has identified some 18,000 illegal Indian migrants which are to be sent back, and for this India would verify and start the deportation process

Central, state ministers unveil India Pavilion at WEF's Davos summit

Day marks talks on challenges that AI poses to societies, economies

Young Indian leaders dominate WEF 2025, Andhra, Telangana lead delegations

In 1999, World Link, a magazine published by the WEF, included Naidu, then chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, in its global "dream cabinet"

After cabinet nod, Uttarakhand UCC rules may come into force on R-Day

After chairing a state Cabinet meeting in Dehradun, Dhami said that preparations for implementing the UCC in the state were nearly complete