Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

Mumbai escapes unhurt as Nisarga batters nearby areas

A 58-year-old man died after a power transformer fell on him in Raigad district.2 people died and 3 were injured in two separate cyclone-related incidents in Pune.   IMAGE: A sea-wave strikes......

Lockdown effect: Virtual funerals, mourning on video chat

In times of social distancing, thousands of people are dying alone without a last glimpse of their loved ones who are unable to reach them. CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: Full Coverage   IMAGE:......

Anti-CAA stir: Alert across states; entry to Mangaluru restricted

Security forces were put on high alert on Friday in various parts of the country including in Kerala and Karanataka where protesters disrupted road and rail traffic after Thursday night's death of......

It's no longer raining millionaires!

The world's richest are getting poorer. The wealth divide among people is also narrowing down. The recession has transformed the global map of the world's wealthiest people, with Europe nudging......

Pranab Mukherjee's Interim Budget speech

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also managing the finance ministry, presented the Interim Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Monday. Following is the text of the entire Budget......

Of child labour and shattered dreams

Jyothi Ramulla Naga is 4 feet tall. From sunup to sundown she is hunched over in the fields of a cottonseed farm in southern India, earning 20 cents an hour. Farmers in the Uyyalawada region......

Lalu's Rail Budget speech

Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav made the following speech while presenting the Railway Budget for 2004-2005 in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (July 6, 2004)."Mr Speaker Sir,I rise to present the......