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Thursday, July 31, 2025
TopicMaiden budget speech

Topic: maiden budget speech

Growth stagnant, Sitharaman promises to ease FDI norms but markets don’t buy it just yet

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says government intent on relaxing the cap on FDI in aviation, media, animation and insurance sectors.

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Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.