Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has said there is nothing concrete in the budget as the biggest problem in front of the country is unemployment and the government has not addressed that. ....

During the Budget 2020 presentation in Parliament on Saturday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman quoted renowned Kashmiri poet Pandit Dinanath Kaul Nadim, a Sahitya Academy Award winner. ....

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the work on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious 508-km Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed train project will be actively pursued and also said that it will set up 'Kisan Rail' through public private partnership (PPP) for transportation of perishable goods. ....

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated Rs 69000 crore including Rs 6400 crore for PM Jan Aushadhi Yojna for the healthcare sector on Saturday as she announced that the Budget 2020 is woven around 3 prominent themes: Aspirational India, Economic Development and Caring Society which includes health as one of the fundamental pillars, in addition to education and better jobs opportunities. ....

A policy will be set up to build data centre parks throughout the country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said during her second Union Budget presentation in Parliament on Saturday. ....

Emphasising on doubling the farm income of farmers across the country by 2022, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her 2020-21 Budget speech said that the government has provided 11 crore farmers under Aspirational India programme. ....

The parents of 2012 gang rape victim named 'Nirbhaya' by the media are all set to move a Delhi court seeking issuance of fresh death warrants against the four death row convicts after the President on Saturday rejected the mercy plea filed by one of the convicts Vinay Sharma. ....

A total of 95 of the 324 Indians, who arrived in Air India special flight from Wuhan in China at Delhi Airport on Saturday, have been taken from the airport to Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp here for medical observation. ....

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said the Central government is ready to talk to Shaheen Bagh protesters; mainly women camping at Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen Bagh stretch against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems keen to present a Budget that goes beyond incrementalism and gradualism. ....

A total of 1,804 passengers have been screened for novel coronavirus at Amritsar and Mohali airports as well as border check posts of Atari and Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab, Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said. ....

In a major drug haul, the Special Task Force (STF) has seized nearly 200 kg of heroin, valued at around Rs 1,200 crore, from a house in Punjab's Sultanwind village near Amritsar, close to Pakistan border, and arrested four persons, including a woman and an Afghan national. ....

The police on Friday booked BJP's West Bengal unit President Dilip Ghosh following a complaint lodged against him by a young woman for making 'sexually coloured remarks' and showing 'murderous intent'. ....

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said the February 8 Assembly elections here are country's internal issue and no intervention of the "biggest sponsors of terrorism" will be tolerated. ....

Actor Vijay Verma has thanked stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra for his by-now viral in-flight verbal attack on journalist Arnab Goswami. The actor says that even though he does not subscribe to what Kamra did, he is happy because the "tormentor" has been "shut up for once". ....

President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said that with the passing of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, the government has fulfilled the will of Mahatma Gandhi and condemned the atrocities being perpetrated on minorities in Pakistan. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the Budget Session of Parliament would try to establish a base for the bright future of this decade and economy would be the centre of discussion. ....

A day after a minor opened fire on protesters near Jamia Millia Islamia in front of the police personnel leaving a student injured, former Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday questioned who paid the attacker. ....

Former Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday condoled the death of people who lost their lives due to the novel coronavirus in China and elsewhere. ....

Two more terrorists have been gunned down in an ongoing encounter in Jammu on Friday, taking the total number of killed terrorists to three, police said. One policeman was also injured in the encounter. ....