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

Farmers' protest: Sources said not much discussions could take place at the meeting and the next date has been decided after keeping in mind a scheduled hearing of Supreme Court on January 11

Farmers' protest: The government refused to repeal the three farm laws and asked the union leaders to point out what they considered objectionable

About forty farmer unions wrote to the Centre on Saturday proposing for the talks to take place on Tuesday, December 29. For them, a repeal of all laws will still be the top priority

Efforts are underway by the unions to draw support from farmers in other states like Bihar for their demand to enact a law assuring Minimum Support Price as the protest at the border points have been going on for almost four weeks now

Farmers' protest: Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said the Centre was trying to tire out the farmers by offering to start talks from the very beginning

The 14th All India Sammelan of SJM held virtually on December 13 passed a resolution to ensure remunerative prices to farmers under the law. However, the organisation did not call for repealing the farm legislations

Harsimrat Kaur Badal who recently resigned from the government tweeted, 'Indeed a DARK DAY for democracy as President Kovind too refused to heed the request of 18 political parties pleading him not to sign the undemocratically passed anti-farmer bills'

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Speech Live Updates on Economic Package: 4th phase of announcements under the Atma Nirbhar economic stimulus package will focus on structural reforms

Measures such as creation of farm gate infrastructure may have impact in the medium-to-long-term

Budget 2020: In today's speech, the FM broke her own record and delivered the longest Union Budget speech, which was 159 minutes long

The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019, passed by Lok Sabha and waiting for the approval of Rajya Sabha, will provide for seizure of properties and putting travel ban on such individuals once they are declared as terrorists

In the latest one - 35th GST Council meeting held in Delhi on June 21 - several key decisions, including the extension of the date for filing annual GST returns by two months to August 30 and introduction of a new single-form GST return filing system from January 1, 2020, were taken.

The Cabinet approved amending the existing laws to provide legal backing for seeding of biometric ID Aadhaar with mobile numbers and bank accounts as an optional KYC

Arun Jaitley calls for amendments in graft law, says it's anarchic and hurts decision makingUnion Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday called for amendments in the Prevention of Corruption Act -- a graft law that the Minister described as anarchic and one of the most badly drafted pieces of legislations. His statement came weeks after the Pune police on June 21 arrested the entire top management of the state-run Bank of Maharashtra for a loan of Rs 94.5 crore to the scam-tainted devel...

The first Budget since demonetisation has been a careful exercise by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. It caters to the core constituency - farmers and lower income people - while not introducing anything that hurt industry.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday presented Union Budget 2017-18 in Lok Sabha.