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The amount allocated this year is less than the revised estimate of the spend under this head, in this financial year. In its ‘outlay for major schemes,’ the annual budget lists schemes with an outlay of more than Rs 1,000 crore. Under ‘Control of Pollution’, it emerges that Rs 1300 crore is the revised estimate […]
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has left income tax slabs unchanged in the Union Budget 2025–26, offering stability rather than fresh relief to salaried taxpayers. The “nil tax” threshold of ₹12 lakh under the new tax regime continues, with salaried individuals effectively enjoying a tax-free income of up to ₹12.75 lakh after the standard deduction. Finance […]
The Jal Jeevan Mission, for instance, was supposed to see a spend of Rs 67,000 crore. Instead, the revised estimates suggest the government spent only Rs 17,000 crore on the scheme meant to change millions of lives. While the Union Budget 2025-26 had been criticised at the time for not highlighting social sector spending enough […]
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Union Budget 2026–27 speech, pushed the government’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat agenda with a series of duty and tariff changes aimed at boosting domestic manufacturing, supporting exports and providing relief to consumers and taxpayers. A key feature of the Budget is the recalibration of customs duties, under which several essential and […]
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today presented her ninth consecutive Union Budget, delivering a nearly one-and-a-half-hour speech and breaking a 75-year convention by using Part B to lay out a detailed roadmap for India’s long-term economic vision. Highlighting the government’s focus on investment-led growth, the Budget for 2026 proposes capital expenditure of ₹12.20 lakh crore. Grants […]
Hate speech in India is no longer a by-product of politics—it has become a deliberate instrument of power. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party has systematically turned religious polarisation into a governing strategy, targeting minorities to consolidate votes, silence dissent, and normalise discrimination. What was once coded or dog-whistle rhetoric is now […]
An audacious cyber fraud held an elderly NRI doctor couple under a so-called “digital arrest” for over two weeks. They were coerced into transferring Rs 14.85 crore to multiple accounts while believing they were under official investigation. Dr Om Taneja and his wife, Dr Indira Taneja, both retired doctors who spent nearly five decades in […]
The deadly outbreak in Indore linked to contaminated drinking water has caught global attention. International media has highlighted Indore’s shocking turnaround from India’s cleanest city to a hotspot of public health failure. Adding to the list of in-depth reporting was a British daily that quoted authorities as saying that sewage caused the outbreak. It reportedly […]
Why should Bhagwat’s comment matter beyond ideological posturing? Because it signals intent, and actions follow. At a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) centenary event in Kolkata on December 21, Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat made a declaration that crystallises the ideological project now driving Indian state policy. He said that India was already a “Hindu nation.” Speaking at […]
In an aggressive move to dominate the state’s political narrative, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has weaponized the absence of official census data to push a divisive “civilizational” agenda. Addressing the BJP state executive, Sarma used unverified projections to claim that the population of Bangladeshi-origin Muslims will surge to 40% by 2027—a figure that opposition […]
A simmering internal rift within the Congress burst into the open after senior leader Digvijaya Singh shared a throwback photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and openly praised the organisational strength of the BJP and its ideological mentor, the RSS. The post, made on the day of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, was widely […]
The Maharashtra political landscape is bracing for a seismic shift as rumors of a merger between the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP gain significant momentum. At the heart of the escalating speculation is a purported family consensus designed to settle the long-standing succession battle within the Pawar dynasty once and for […]
A fresh fault line has opened between Maharashtra and Gujarat — this time over the country’s most celebrated fruit. Konkan’s Alphonso growers are up in arms after what they describe as Gujarat’s latest attempt to “muscle in” on Maharashtra’s cultural and agricultural heritage. The outrage erupted after NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar revealed that Navsari […]
By Deep Mukherjee In September this year, the Rajasthan assembly passed the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2025, which has the provision for life imprisonment as the maximum punishment for illegal religious conversion. In one of the first cases registered under Rajasthan’s recently-enacted anti-conversion law, two Christian pastors have been booked in Kota district […]
“They are turning humans into machines.” A teacher in Gujarat reportedly told his family before taking his own life, protesting the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state. His suicide note left a chilling account of mental stress. Today, Usha Indrasinh Solanki fainted after complaining of dizziness at work at the Pratap School. She […]
Credible voices in the media fraternity believe that Rhea Chakraborty deserves an apology by large sections of mainstream news platforms. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) gave her a clean chit in the case involving the death of her partner, Sushant Singh Rajput. Chakraborty was vilified without evidence. Even her family was not spared as […]
Police investigating the brutal murder of a UPSC aspirant in Delhi’s Timarpur area have unveiled the chilling modus operandi of the accused, his 21-year-old live-in partner. A BSc forensic science student, the woman allegedly leveraged her academic knowledge and a fascination with crime shows to meticulously plan the murder and deliberately stage the crime scene […]
When a private sleeper bus caught fire on the outskirts of Kurnool early Friday, passengers had little warning before the vehicle was swallowed by flames. Within minutes, 19 lives were lost on National Highway 44 — in one of southern India’s deadliest road accidents this year. What began as a minor road obstruction — a […]
Tejashwi Yadav’s elder brother Tej Pratap who has emerged as his rival has mocked Tejashwi’s projection as Jan Nayak of Bihar once again exposing the steep chasms within the Lalu Prasad Yadav family. In a direct jibe at the RJD’s heir apparent, Tej Pratap stated, “Tejashwi cannot be a ‘jan nayak’ because his power and […]
The investigation into the alleged suicide of a 29-year-old government doctor in Phaltan, Satara district in Maharashtra has intensified following the arrest of both individuals named in her suicide note. The case, which has unearthed allegations of widespread harassment and political pressure, has triggered widespread outrage and protests across Maharashtra. Police on Saturday confirmed the […]
