'Currently, it takes between two and three years to formulate the request for proposal for procuring specific military equipment for the armed forces. It should not be this way.' IMAGE: DRDO......
India on Saturday set aside Rs 6,81,210 crore as defence outlay for 2025-26 in a 9.53 per cent increase over the allocation of Rs 6.22 lakh crore for current fiscal amid the military's push to......
Whether the ambitious targets are achievable is a moot question as India's earlier target was 20,000 MW of nuclear power by 2020. IMAGE: A view of India's first indigenously developed 700-megawatt......
The 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 Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has received Rs 13,611 crore in the Union Budget announced on Saturday, while the allocation for disability welfare now stands at Rs 1,275 crore.......
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 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. Illustration:......
For the first time, the government is likely to dip into the Oil Industry Development Fund (OIDF) to finance part of its fertiliser subsidy programme for 2025-26, according to official sources.......
Post-election capital expenditure (capex) has been weak at 2 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in M9FY25. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The FY25 revised estimates (RE) indicate 7 per cent......
Recent documents by NITI Aayog and periodic labour force surveys on employment show that the importance of agriculture is rising in the Indian economy. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A......
The government's indirect tax collection is expected to increase by 8.3 pc in the financial year 2025-26 (FY26), according to a report by ICICI Bank. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The......
Sanam Teri Kasam got the biggest collections ever for a re-release. IMAGE: Mawra Hocane and Harshvardhan Rane in Sanam Teri Kasam. It was a strange weekend at the box office. While Badass......
Siddharth Roy Kapur's RKF aims to raise around $50 million by offering up to a 50 per cent stake in the company. IMAGE: Shahid Kapoor in Deva. Mumbai-based Roy Kapur Films (RKF), founded by......
'We have loved Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and Apocalypto.''The thought was 'When are we going to do such films?' IMAGE: Suriya in Kanguva. He always wondered when Indian cinema......