Glacier Burst in Uttarakhand: At least seven people have died, six injured and around 170 are missing after the Uttarakhand flood incident today, confirms State Disaster Management Center

According to the dictionary publisher, 'Aatmanirbharta' was chosen as it 'validated the day-to-day achievements of the countless Indians who dealt with and survived the perils of a pandemic'

Gandhi, on Twitter, shared multiple photos of the recently installed barricades and concertina wires near protest sites at several border joints around Delh

The boost to infrastructure sector and structural reforms will give a major fillip to growth and job creation, the prime minister said.

The finance minister added that the government will also provide Rs 35,000 crore for coronavirus vaccination in 2021-22 and is committed to providing further support to eliminate COVID-19

Union Budget 2021 Highlights: Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that the government had only marginally raised health funding, which when adjusted to inflation becomes nil

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says preparation of this Budget was taken under circumstances like never before

Budget 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already indicated that Budget 2021 is part of a series of four-five \"mini-budgets'' presented in the form of economic packages last year. So what should you expect from this year's budget?

PM Modi also explained to protestors that Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar is just a phone call away from the farmers if they want to take up the offer

Eight core industries' output shrinks 1.3% in Dec 2020 The output of eight core infrastructure sectors contracted for the third month in a row by 1.3 per cent in December, dragged down by poor show by crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertiliser, steel and cement sectors. The core sectors had expanded by 3.1 per cent in December 2019, according to the provisional data released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry on Friday. Barring coal and electricity, all sectors recorded negati...

Bharti Airtel added more new subscribers as compared to market leader Reliance Jio for the fourth consecutive month in November; The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is investigating e-commerce giant Amazon for alleged violation of foreign exchange laws in its dealings with Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail; After a record September quarter, Apple has doubled its business in October - December 2020 quarter (also referred as Apple's Q1 2021) in India. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Economic Survey: India's real economic growth to be 11% in FY22

Budget Session 2021: Chief Economic Advisor KV Subramanian launches Economic Survey; says India took \"short term pain for long term gain\" and recognised that GDP growth will recover, lost human lives cannot be brought back, adds the CEA

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that India not only managed to beat the COVID-19 crisis, but also helped over 150 countries in the process. Addressing the World Economic Forum's Davos Dialogue via video conference, PM Modi said that at the beginning of the pandemic, global experts had predicted that India would face a tsunami of coronavirus cases, but with the use of public participation and technology for testing and tracking, the country was able to turn the fight against COVID-19 into a mass movement. Watch the video for more.Also Read: WEF Davos Agenda: India will supply many more COVID-19 vaccines to world, says PM Modi

Agriculture minister of India, Narendra Singh Tomar, discussed ways to strengthen the agricultural infrastructure in India at the 51st World Economic Forum. Tomar talked about the government's efforts to deliver soil health cards to farmers and its emphasis on the R&D sector. He also added that a fund of Rs 1 lakh crore has been added to the Atmanirbhar Bharat package to strengthen the crops storage infrastructure and reduce post-harvesting losses. Watch the video for more.Also Read: WEF Davos Agenda LIVE: Industrial Revolution 4.0 to aid Atmanirbhar Bharat, says PM Modi

Of the last 10 budgets, the stock market has closed lower six times. Twice the indices closed over 1% lower (2012, 2013). This excludes Budget 2020's 2.4% drop in Sensex, the worst budget-day plunge since 2009

Economic reforms have continued apace and have been supplemented by long-pending reforms in the areas of labour and agriculture through legislation, The President said

Republic Day 2021: India is celebrating its 72nd Republic Day, the day its Constitution came into force in 1950

In more than five decades, this year's parade will be the first Republic Day parade to be organised without a chief guest. Before this, there were no chief guests during the Republic Day parade in 1952, 1953 and 1966

Netaji would have been proud that the government he dreamt of is fighting a pandemic with vaccines developed by it, and gave a befitting reply whenever its sovereignty was challenged, Modi said on the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji

Nadda said the Congress made a \"nirbhar Bharat\" (dependent India), while Modi made an \"Atmanirbhar Bharat\" (self-reliant India)