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

"Let us stop unnecessary expenditure so that money can reach the poor," said Narendra Modi (Image credit: AP)

Finance minister Arun Jaitley gives the final touches to the annual Budget in New Delhi on Friday. — PTI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi embraces PDP patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed in New Delhi on Friday. — PTI

Blogger Avijit Roy’s wife Rafida Ahmed Banna is carried on a stretcher at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday. — AFP

PM Modi's Maldives trip under shadow due to unrest

Suresh Prabhu (right) and MoS Manoj Sinha arrive at Parliament House with Railway Budget papers—(Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

International

Shock as US blogger slain in Dhaka

Feb 28, 2015 - AFP | Shafiqul Alam

Hundreds of protesters rallied in Dhaka on Friday to denounce the murder of a prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin hacked to death with machetes after he allegedly received threats from Is

Business

Quality education infrastructure is must for high growth

Feb 28, 2015 - Age Correspondent

India needs to develop quality education and skill development infrastructure and there was a need to match the supply with demand and to dovetail education policy to employment opportunities, the Eco

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City air quality violates prescribed norms

Feb 28, 2015 - AGE CORRESPONDENT With agency inputs

Even as air pollution levels in the city remain a serious health risk and concerns continue over the deteriorating air quality, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has said that air quality in

Newsmakers

‘Belief can be as powerful as nicotine effect’

Feb 28, 2015 - PTI

Belief alone may erase or enhance the effects of nicotine in people under the influence of the active drug, a new study suggests.

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Sports

N Srinivasan sorry in Supreme Court, won’t chair AGM

Feb 28, 2015 - J. Venkatesan

N Srinivasan tendered an unconditional apology on Friday in the Supreme Court for chairing the working committee meeting of the BCCI as its president on February 8 and fixing the date of elections and

Editorial

Encouraging ‘ghar wapsi’?

Feb 28, 2015

The verdict of a two-judge Supreme Court bench on Thursday on the question of re-conversion to Hinduism from Christianity, and the link of such a phenomenon with quota benefits, beggars the imaginatio

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