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Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media tycoon and four-time prime minister who brushed off a litany of legal battles and sex scandals to dominate Italian public life for more than two decades, has died in Milan aged 86.…

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Ahead of the 2023-24 Union Budget, the thinking at the top level of the central government is clear: Gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 6-6.5 per cent is a comfortable enough target for FY24 and the focus should be on fiscal…

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her final Union Budget on 1 February 2023, before the general elections scheduled to be in 2024. This Budget 2023 is being projected as a differential Budget, being the first post-pandemic…

India’s government will look to maintain its pace of spending to bolster growth as it leans on asset sales while shunning subsidies to shrink the deficit, according to a survey of economists.Read here: Budget 2023: How to check document…

The Union Budget set to be presented in Parliament in February will be the last full-year Budget of the Narendra Modi government before the Lok Sabha elections are held next year. Given the electoral timetable, there is an expectation that…

John Maytham speaks to associate professor of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Glenda Daniels, about how online expressions like #MenAreTrash aren't helpful in tackling…

As soaring electricity and heating costs force European households to the brink, the EU is toying with a not-so-novel idea to pander to their anger and frustration — tax the "excessive" profits that energy firms have been making during the…

Coming out in support of a public interest litigation seeking to curb the menace of freebies announced by political parties, the Narendra Modi government Wednesday told the Supreme Court that such "populist announcements distort the…

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Two anti-establishment candidates, Gustavo Petro, a leftist, and Rodolfo Hernández, a right-wing populist, captured the top two spots in Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday, delivering a stunning blow to Colombia’s…