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The Union Budget comes with a vocabulary that can be confusing even for regular readers. Many terms are technical, and are used repeatedly across Budget documents, tables and debates. The “Budget at a Glance” table presents a consolidated snapshot of the Union Government’s finances for a financial year, showing actuals, Budget Estimates and Revised Estimates...

Union Budget 2026: With less than a few hours to go, the countdown to the Union Budget 2026–27 has entered its final stretch. As anticipation builds across households, industry and financial markets, the country is gearing up for a financial statement that will mark several firsts in India’s budgetary history.To be presented on a “rare...

De’Andre Hunter to Sacramento Kings? (Image via NBA) At this year’s trade deadline, the Sacramento Kings are getting ready to make some significant changes. They are also looking forward to the departure of its veterans and doing a fresh start. However, fourth-year guard Keon Ellis is now the most probable candidate to be dealt. According...

India’s Ishan Kishan (PTI Photo) Thiruvananthapuram: Ishan Kishan’s blistering 42-ball century was the heartbeat of India’s mammoth 271/5 at the Greenfield Stadium on Saturday, transforming what might have been a competitive total into a match-winning one. On the smallest playing area of the series, and on a pitch dry on top yet tacky underneath, India’s...

Bill Belichick (Image Via Getty) The news landed hard across the NFL. Bill Belichick did not make the Pro Football Hall of Fame on his first try, something very few people expected. With six Super Bowl wins and decades of success, most assumed the vote would be quick. Instead, it turned into one of the...

NEW DELHI: In Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet, the protagonist is torn by a dilemma over avenging his father’s death by killing his uncle Claudius. A similar Hamletian dilemma appears to have gripped Sharad Pawar over the merger of the two factions of the NCP after his nephew Ajit Pawar’s death in a plane crash.While talking to...

Ishan Kishan celebrates his century during the fifth and final T201 cricket match between India and New Zealand, at the Greenfield International Stadium, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. (PTI Photo) Ishan Kishan reached two career milestones during the fifth and final T20I of the series against New Zealand, completing 1,000 runs in T20 Internationals and 2,000 international...

FILE – President Donald Trump speaks during an event, July 8, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) TOI correspondent from Washington: In a long-anticipated disclosure that has reignited scrutiny of the late paedophile-financier Jeffrey Epstein and his influential circles, the US Justice Department on Friday released more than three million pages of documents,...

Sachin Tendulkar waves to the crowd as he completes his century during the first Test match in Madras, in 1999 (l), and a screengrab of the crowd applaudin Pakistan team. (Photo/Getty Images) For those who have begun watching India vs Pakistan cricket only in recent times, it can be easy to assume that matches between...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present her record ninth straight Union Budget, with markets closely tracking headline numbers ranging from the fiscal deficit and capital expenditure to borrowing and tax revenue projections, as India charts its course as the world’s fastest-growing major economy.The Budget will be presented in a paperless format, continuing the...