Lakshmi did smile for middle classes, as strongly hinted by Modi a day before the Budget. To understand the politics behind FM's Rs 1 lakh crore giveaway in personal income tax revenue ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented a budget addressing both middle-class voters in Delhi and the masses in Bihar. Key proposals included tax reliefs, financial support for ...

On Saturday (February 1, 2025), Ms. Sitharaman announced a major rejig of tax slabs, providing long-awaited relief to the middle class. In the run up to the Assembly election in Delhi, a city that ...

In a big announcement for the middle-class during her budget speech, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gladdened the hearts of the influential if numerically smaller, white-collar class ...

“The new structure will substantially reduce the taxes of the middle class and leave more money in their hands, boosting household consumption, savings and investment,” Sitharaman sai ...

Electronics and auto manufacturing are key industries. The middle class in Mexico is still small by global standards but it was at 45% of the population 2016 and it's growing. The income levels ...

The European Union on Wednesday released a new economic-growth strategy that goes easy on climate-change pieties and focuses instead on more private investment. In Europe, this counts as both a ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

There is no doubt that Trump helped secure the cease-fire deal. But to be a peacemaker who transforms the Middle East, he has more work to do. The main issues he confronts are Gaza and Iran. In Gaza, ...

Liberian-flagged crude oil tanker Chrysalis sails through Red Sea this week, Suez Canal says, in one of the first voyages since militia announced a halt in attacks on ships not linked to Israel As ...

Mexico Reaches Deal With U.S. to Delay Trump Tariffs President Trump said he would pause tariffs on Mexico for a month, but levies on Canada and China were still set to take effect on Tuesday ...