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Students eat their lunch under the mid-day meal scheme in Vijayawada. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Budget speech mentions six principles of ‘Viksit Bharat’: zero-poverty, quality education, comprehensive healthcare, meaningful employment, inclusion of women in economic activities, and farmers’ well being. This is followed by 10 broad areas that the proposed development measures span….

At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened higher at 89.88 but lost ground through the day to settle at 90.16 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar, down 26 paise from its previous close. Representational image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The rupee declined 26 paise to settle at 90.16 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on…

A farmer walks across a wheat field on the outskirts of Amritsar. | Photo Credit: AFP A Budget is the response of a government to the challenges in the economy. The effort in the Economic Survey 2024-25 was to spin a positive narrative on the state of Indian agriculture. It claimed that Indian agriculture remained…

Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Mutual fund investors chose gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over equity-oriented schemes in December 2025, following the rally in gold and the suboptimal returns. According to data from Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), the net inflows into gold ETFs, a mutual fund investment avenue…