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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government wants farmers to highlight the points in the agri laws they find problematic.

The familiar tinkling of ceramic cups and chatter returned to coffee bars across most of Italy on Monday, as rigid COVID19 restrictions were eased.

The Budget also proposed the introduction of a new framework to give the option to consumers to choose from more than.

Actor Sonu Sood will organise residential accommodation for a group of elderly people whose video of being mistreated had gone viral on social media recently.

The gains in Sensex and Nifty after the Union Budget 2021 speech by Nirmala Sitharaman were mainly led by banking, financial, and auto stocks.

According to the budget documents, the highest assistance goes to Bhutan; Rs 2884.65 crore will be given to the country - Rs 2052.37 crore in form of grant and Rs 832.28 crore in form of loan.

The broader Nifty soared 646.60 points or 4.74 per cent to finish at 14,281.20. On the Sensex chart, IndusInd Bank was the top gainer, rallying over 14 per cent, followed by ICICI Bank, Bajaj Finserv, SBI, L&T and HDFC.

It pointed out that the government announced under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat mission a special economic and comprehensive package of Rs 20 lakh crore – equivalent to 10 per cent of India's GDP to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

Nirmala Sitharaman said that National Infrastructure Pipeline has now been expanded to 7,400 projects and around 217 projects worth Rs 1.10 lakh crore under some key infrastructure ministries have been completed.

The COVAX global vaccine sharing scheme expects to deliver 35.3 million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID19 vaccine to 36 Caribbean and Latin American states from midFebruary to the end of June, the World Health Organization's regional office said.

Euro zone manufacturing growth remained resilient at the start of the year but the pace waned from December as renewed lockdown measures across the continent, alongside supply shortages, hurt activity, a survey showed.

Silver rallied for a third straight session on Monday, soaring as much as 11.2% to a near eightyear peak as retail investors in Asia followed up frenzied buying by U.S. counterparts last week following a social medialed call to push the market higher.

Aamir Khan has decided to turn off his phone completely so that it doesn't come in the way of conducting work and personal life.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the move is being undertaken for greater domestic value addition, as the mobile manufacturing industry of India continues to grow.

A dozen Australian media firms have agreed to plead guilty for breaching a suppression order on reporting on the trial and conviction of former Vatican treasurer George Pell in 2018 for child sexual assault, a court heard on Monday.

About 2 million Australians begun their first full day of a strict coronavirus lockdown on Monday following the discovery of one case in the community in Perth, capital of Western Australia state, but no new cases have since been found.