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New Delhi: If budgetary proposals are anything to go by, the decadal census is unlikely to be carried out in 2025 as well with a meagre Rs 574.80 crore allocated for the exercise in the Budget presented Saturday. A meeting of the Union Cabinet December...

New Delhi: In a historic move, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her 8th consecutive Union Budget Saturday, with a focus on driving growth through four key sectors: Agriculture, MSMEs, Investment, and Exports. In a major relief for taxpayers, Sitharaman announced that individuals earning up to...

New Delhi: Union Health Ministry has been allocated Rs 99,858.56 crore in the Budget 2025-2026, an around 11 per cent hike over the Rs 89,974.12 crore in the budget (revised estimates) of 2024-2025 with the government announcing setting up daycare cancer centres at all district...

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday presented Union Budget 2025-26, envisaging an expenditure of Rs 50,65,345 crore, an increase of 7.4 per cent over the current fiscal. The 2024-25 expenditure (Revised Estimates) is Rs 47.16 lakh crore. According to Budget documents, Rs 5,41,850.21 crore...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday slammed the Union Budget as a "band-aid for bullet wounds," saying that the Centre was "bankrupt of ideas". He said solving the economic crisis demanded a paradigm shift. "A band-aid for bullet wounds! Amid global uncertainty, solving our...

New Delhi: The Union Budget 2025-26 has allocated more than Rs 1,400 crore to the law ministry to meet carry forward expenditure for holding the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and purchase of new electronic voting machines for the Election Commission. The legislative department in the...

New Delhi: The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has received Rs 13,611 crore in the Union Budget announced Saturday, while the allocation for disability welfare now stands at Rs 1,275 crore. This is a 35.75 per cent rise in allocation over the revised estimate...

New Delhi: Infrastructure expansion at the five new IITs to facilitate 6,500 more students, 10,000 new medical seats and a big Artificial Intelligence push. These are among the big announcements made by the government for the education sector in the 2025-26 budget. The Ministry of...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday lauded the Union Budget, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, as a "people's budget" that puts more money in the hands of people and said it is a force-multiplier that will increase investments and lead to growth. In...

New Delhi: The Congress Saturday said the Union Budget has nothing to address the "illnesses" of stagnant real wages, lack of buoyancy in mass consumption, sluggish rates of private investment and a complicated GST system that the economy is suffering from. It also took a...