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

Former MI6 chief warns of Russia threat to UK

Mar 01, 2015 - PTI

Russia has become a threat to Britain and the government must be prepared to take steps to defend itself and its allies, including in the Baltic region, the former chief of spy agency MI6 has said.

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

Orissa Congress plans stir on march 4

Mar 02, 2015 - Akshaya Kumar Sahoo

The Orissa Pradesh Congress unit is gearing up to launch a series of agitation across the state against the Naveen Patnaik government.

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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

Positive healthcare moves

Mar 01, 2015

No amount of allocation for healthcare may ever suffice to satisfy the growing population in India.

Here and Now

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Bollywood

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Hollywood

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Dining

Eating out gets dearer
The service tax being hiked to 14 per...

Age On Sunday

Adieu, blog-gone erotica

Come March, and a massive crackdown by Google on Blogger, its popular global blogging community, will effectively ban all ‘mature’ creative ...

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Cover Story

There always comes a time when you have to heed Jesus who said: “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” So this time I will render unto the finance m

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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