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This Budget is the first step to Viksit Bharat 2047. Economists have stated that unless the GDP grows by 7.5% continuously for the next 25 years, the dream of Viksit Bharat will remain unrealised, and India will remain in the middle-income trap. With the backdrop of slowing growth (FY 2025 growth expected at 6.4%), India…

Image used for representational purpose only | Photo Credit: PTI Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty edged lower in early trade on Thursday (December 18, 2025) tracking a weak trend in global markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 214.87 points to 84,344.78 in early trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty dipped 56.1 points to 25,762.45. From…

A view of the Hindustan Shipyard Ltd in Visakhapatnam. Image for representation | Photo Credit: C.V. Subrahmanyam Budget 2025 has several announcements aimed at kickstarting the building of merchant ships that had ground to a halt in recent decades. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has promised that the Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Policy will be revamped to…

Selfie with liveness detection, recording of geographical coordinates, and verification of bank account by the ‘penny-drop’ method are among the mandatory new measures listed by India’s financial intelligence agency under the anti-money laundering and terrorist financing KYC protocols for cryptocurrency exchanges while onboarding users. The directives also discourage Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Initial Token…