Finance minister Arun Jaitley presents Union Budget 2015-16 in the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Saturday. — PTI

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar addresses a press conference at Old Secretariat in Patna. (Photo: AP)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. (Photo: AP)

Industrialists watch the live screening of the Union Budget 2015-16 speech in Ahmedabad. (Photo: AP)

Union Budget 2015-16

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. (Photo: videograb)

Modi’s government faces a major test today that could wreck the leader's promises of ‘Acche Din’

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with MoS for Finance Jayant Sinha and other officials giving final touch to the budget in New Delh

International

Russian Opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead

Feb 28, 2015 - Reuters

Thousands of stunned Russians laid flowers and lit candles on Saturday on the bridge where Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead near the Kremlin, a murder that showed the risks of speakin

Business

The top secret giants

Feb 28, 2015 - Govind Vijaykumar

A New York firm, which doesn’t even have a website, is pumping in thousands of crores in investment into India, and could change the venture capital scene here

India

H1N1 claims 36 more, toll 1,041

Mar 01, 2015 - PTI

Swine flu has claimed 36 more lives raising the toll to 1,041 even as the number of people affected by the H1N1 virus in the country breached the 19,000 mark on Saturday.

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Metros

Metro says 22 per cent hike in funds just adequate

Mar 01, 2015 - Age Correspondent

Despite a significant jump of 22 per cent in the funds allocation for the Delhi Metro in the Union Budget, the Metro officials termed the increase as “adequate” for ongoing projects in the National Ca

Newsmakers

Catwoman is bisexual

Mar 01, 2015 - PTI

Superhero Batman’s enemy and romantic interest Catwoman, Selina Kyle, has come out bisexual in the latest issue of Catwoman comic book.

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Sports

India Sizzle at Perth

Mar 01, 2015 - AFP | Scott COGHLAN

India’s World Cup confidence continued to climb as they thrashed the United Arab Emirates by nine wickets in their Pool B match at Perth’s Waca ground on Saturday.

Editorial

Dhaka must stifle extremism

Mar 01, 2015

The murderous machete attack on the Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy (and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya, grievously injured) in Dhaka is another reminder that religious zealotry is an issue socie

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Age On Sunday

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Cover Story

The devil, they say, is in the details. There is a world of difference between the Budget speech of Arun Jaitley, peppered with smart announcements, and the real numbers in the Budget documents.

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