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NSE, BSE to keep markets open on February 1 for Union Budget 2025
14 hours, 53 minutes ago

NSE, BSE to keep markets open on February 1 for Union Budget 2025

India Today  

The National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange have announced that the markets will remain open for live trading on February 1, 2025, coinciding with the presentation of the Union Budget. The circular said, "On account of the presentation of the Union Budget, Exchange shall be conducting live trading session on February 1, 2025." In the past, trading was also …

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Private hospitals benefit most from insurance schemes: CMA president
14 hours, 53 minutes ago

Private hospitals benefit most from insurance schemes: CMA president

New Indian Express  

COIMBATORE: “The Indian healthcare system ranks good in aspects like accessibility and the number of doctors available but struggles with treatment quality,” said Dr J A Jayalal, president of the Commonwealth Medical Association. Without increasing budget allocation, improving the quality of health care will remain a challenge.” Dr Jayalal also said that the penetration of government health insurance schemes is …

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Sanjaya Baru | Budget 2025: Taking India’s economy from good to great
19 hours, 50 minutes ago

Sanjaya Baru | Budget 2025: Taking India’s economy from good to great

Deccan Chronicle  

Even as most taxpayers will be busy this coming week making plans for the year-end and the New Year, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her colleagues will be pouring over numbers and cogitating over ideas finalising the Budget statement and speech scheduled for February 1. National accounts data for the past decade reveal that total private final consumption expenditure, …

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'We're not serious about passing a budget': GOP lawmaker trashes own party on CNN
20 hours, 49 minutes ago

'We're not serious about passing a budget': GOP lawmaker trashes own party on CNN

Raw Story  

One of the 38 Republican House members who voted no on the budget bill passed in the wee hours of Saturday with the help of Democrats expressed his displeasure with his own party on CNN Sunday morning. Appearing on "State of the Union" with host Dana Bash, Rep. Tim Burchett, a frequent guest on cable networks lately, claimed he came …

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What Trump’s decision to wade into spending fight tells us about his next four years as US president
1 day, 14 hours ago

What Trump’s decision to wade into spending fight tells us about his next four years as US president

New Indian Express  

WASHINGTON: After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday, narrowly averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown. The president-elect successfully pushed House Republicans to jettison some spending, but he failed to achieve his central goal of raising the debt limit. Trump's decision to inject …

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Trump rejects taunts that Elon Musk is real power behind US president-elect
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1 day, 14 hours ago

Trump rejects taunts that Elon Musk is real power behind US president-elect

Al Jazeera  

Statements come amid criticism of Musk’s involvement in budget negotiations, outsized role in Trump transition. United States President-elect Donald Trump has pushed back on the notion that he has “ceded the presidency” to billionaire Elon Musk, who has taken an outsized role in the president-elect’s transition into the White House. “He wasn’t born in this country.” The South African-born Musk …

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'A fiasco by any measure': Wall Street Journal turns on Trump over budget 'blundering'
1 day, 21 hours ago

'A fiasco by any measure': Wall Street Journal turns on Trump over budget 'blundering'

Raw Story  

Following a last-minute deal in the House which kept the government running until March, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal placed the blame for the House budget chaos on Donald Trump and not House Speaker Mike Johnson who was undercut at every turn by the president-elect. Mr. Musk, and then Mr. Trump, delivered a social-media barrage against Mr. …

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Winners emerge as L.A. council members receive new assignments for 2025
2 days, 14 hours ago

Winners emerge as L.A. council members receive new assignments for 2025

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, pictured at a rally last month in Lincoln Heights, came out a winner in this year’s batch of council committee assignments. She assailed the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, saying efforts to get information from that agency has been “the merry go round from hell.” In recent weeks, Rodriguez criticized Harris-Dawson over his push …

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Festive gloom for High Street as sales slump
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2 days, 17 hours ago

Festive gloom for High Street as sales slump

Daily Mail  

Beleaguered retailers are suffering a 'gloomy festive period' according to figures that add to the broader picture of economic woe in the wake of the Budget. CBI principal economist Martin Sartorius said: 'Retailers have endured a gloomy festive period, with annual sales declining for a third consecutive month. Gloom: The CBI's retail survey found that sales this month were 'poor' …

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Kerala reiterates demand for ₹24,000-cr. special package in Union Budget
2 days, 23 hours ago

Kerala reiterates demand for ₹24,000-cr. special package in Union Budget

The Hindu  

Kerala has reiterated its demand for a ₹24,000-crore special economic package to tide over the “current liquidity stress,” a ₹2,000-crore rehabilitation package for landslides-hit Wayanad, and a special assistance of ₹5,000 crore for the Vizhinjam seaport project in the 2025-26 Union Budget. Several of the demands, including the ₹24,000-crore special package and the ₹5,000-crore aid for Vizhinjam port, had featured …

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Labour's economic nightmare before Christmas as shoppers close their wallets: Retailers blame the Budget as sales fall for the third month in a row while families wait for bargains
3 days ago

Labour's economic nightmare before Christmas as shoppers close their wallets: Retailers blame the Budget as sales fall for the third month in a row while families wait for bargains

Daily Mail  

Labour's Budget is being blamed for a sluggish Christmas shopping period as shops struggle to get hard-pressed families to part with their cash. Food sales underpinned a 0.2 per cent rise in business, lower than the 0.5 per cent rebound forecast by economist, after retail sales fell 0.5 per cent in October. British retailers returned to growth last month, up …

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Vivek Oberoi Reveals He Initially Turned Down 'Saathiya', Says 'Only Rani Mukerji Had A Makeup Van'
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3 days, 4 hours ago

Vivek Oberoi Reveals He Initially Turned Down 'Saathiya', Says 'Only Rani Mukerji Had A Makeup Van'

ABP News  

New Delhi: ‘Saathiya’ was a turning point in actor Vivek Oberoi's career, and the actor recently talked about the difficulties and reality of his early career. Vivek Oberoi told SCREEN that the 2002 film was shot on a shoestring budget. The actor recalled, “Saathiya was a small budget film and only Rani used to get the makeup van. Vivek Oberoi …

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QUENTIN LETTS: Sadly Keir's joke about the Budget perking up the economy didn't get the long laugh it richly deserved
3 days, 13 hours ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Sadly Keir's joke about the Budget perking up the economy didn't get the long laugh it richly deserved

Daily Mail  

His poll ratings are diving like a guillemot and the economy has stalled at the traffic lights but Sir Keir Starmer could not have been more delighted with himself. For Starmer KC, it seems, life’s ambition was to sit opposite the prosaic boobies of the liaison committee and be quizzed on the grinding minutiae of his government’s ‘delivery’. Prime Minister …

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Last-minute budget bill to prevent US government shutdown prevails in House
3 days, 14 hours ago

Last-minute budget bill to prevent US government shutdown prevails in House

Al Jazeera  

The bill now goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass with only hours remaining before an expected shutdown. “We are really grateful that tonight, in bipartisan fashion with overwhelming majority of votes, we passed the American Relief Act of 2025,” Mike Johnson, the House speaker, said in a news conference after the vote. But this week, President-elect …

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US Congress debates last-minute spending bill to avert government shutdown
3 days, 14 hours ago

US Congress debates last-minute spending bill to avert government shutdown

Al Jazeera  

Nonessential government functions are expected to shutter on Saturday unless a government spending bill can be passed. “If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under ‘TRUMP’,” the president-elect said on Friday in a social media post. “If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing Resolution …

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Airlines are going premium. Prices are rising. Will cheap tickets be harder to find?
3 days, 14 hours ago

Airlines are going premium. Prices are rising. Will cheap tickets be harder to find?

LA Times  

In the midst of holiday shopping and travel, Colorado resident Tom Pipes didn’t want to spend extra money on a plane ticket. “If there was a first-class option, I wouldn’t use it,” Pipes said this week after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. “The average price is going to be higher and we may see a net reduction in seats …

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Rachel Reeves is accused of killing growth as Bank of England warns UK economy is grinding to halt after her anti-business Budget
3 days, 15 hours ago

Rachel Reeves is accused of killing growth as Bank of England warns UK economy is grinding to halt after her anti-business Budget

Daily Mail  

Rachel Reeves was yesterday accused of killing growth as the Bank of England warned the economy is grinding to halt in the wake of her anti-business Budget. Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith said: ‘Today’s growth downgrade from the Bank of England follows warnings from almost every business group and forecaster. Not a surprise that the financial markets are pushing up …

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ALEX BRUMMER: An utterly dismal economic picture ...and Reeves has only herself to blame
3 days, 15 hours ago

ALEX BRUMMER: An utterly dismal economic picture ...and Reeves has only herself to blame

Daily Mail  

How deceitful, how stale, Labour’s election pledges look now. Notoriously, Rachel Reeves hiked taxes by £40 billion in her first Budget, thanks to a vicious increase in employers’ National Insurance – a move that is having a baleful effect on the very ‘working people’ she and her colleagues mendaciously promised to protect. At the very least – after the Tories …

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Musk ascends as a political force beyond his wealth by tanking budget deal
3 days, 18 hours ago

Musk ascends as a political force beyond his wealth by tanking budget deal

Associated Press  

In the first major flex of his influence since Donald Trump was elected, Elon Musk brought to a sudden halt a bipartisan budget proposal by posting constantly on his X megaphone and threatening Republicans with primary challenges. “All that does is give the keys to these districts over to the Democrats.” Musk spent an estimated $250 million during the presidential …

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Keir Starmer insists the UK economy WILL rebound as he faces MPs with alarm building over Labour's Budget raid sparking surging inflation and fears of a recession
3 days, 23 hours ago

Keir Starmer insists the UK economy WILL rebound as he faces MPs with alarm building over Labour's Budget raid sparking surging inflation and fears of a recession

Daily Mail  

Keir Starmer today insisted the UK economy will rebound amid fears that Labour's Budget is hammering businesses. The Prime Minister said he was still committed to the UK having the highest 'sustained growth' in the G7 group of leading nations by the end of Labour's first term. But at the same time there are fears that UK plc could slip …

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Environment Secretary says farmers are 'in it for the money' as he defends Budget inheritance tax raid
4 days, 1 hour ago

Environment Secretary says farmers are 'in it for the money' as he defends Budget inheritance tax raid

Daily Mail  

The Environment Secretary insisted farmers are 'in it for the money' today as he defended the Budget inheritance tax raid. Steve Reed argued that farms are 'businesses that need to make a profit' during bruising clashes in the Commons The government has been struggling to contain anger about the decision to scrap the the IHT exemption for agricultural businesses and …

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Bank of England HOLDS interest rates despite UK economy stalling after Labour's Budget raid - with fears over resurgent inflation
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4 days, 2 hours ago

Bank of England HOLDS interest rates despite UK economy stalling after Labour's Budget raid - with fears over resurgent inflation

Daily Mail  

The Bank of England kept interest rates on hold today despite mounting alarm at the stalling economy. Interest rates, which influence how much banks charge for loans and mortgages, are used as a tool by the central bank to keep inflation at its 2 per cent target level. Most economists had thought the latest data, and the prospect of price …

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Bank of England set to keep interest rates on hold TODAY despite UK economy stalling after Labour's Budget raid - with fears over resurgent inflation
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4 days, 6 hours ago

Bank of England set to keep interest rates on hold TODAY despite UK economy stalling after Labour's Budget raid - with fears over resurgent inflation

Daily Mail  

The Bank of England is set to keep interest rates on hold today despite mounting alarm at the stalling economy. Interest rates, which influence how much banks charge for loans and mortgages, are used as a tool by the central bank to keep inflation at its 2 per cent target level. Rob Wood, chief UK economist for Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: …

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Facing government shutdown, Trump and Republican allies scuttle budget bill
4 days, 14 hours ago

Facing government shutdown, Trump and Republican allies scuttle budget bill

Al Jazeera  

Trump was one of several prominent Republicans in the incoming administration to denounce the bill on social media. But Trump has shown little aversion to political brinkmanship, and his opposition to the current stopgap bill — or “continuing resolution” — is poised to avoid another government shutdown early in his second term. “We don’t normally like what’s called a continuing …

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