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Modi’s government presents annual budget, focusing on sustaining growth despite volatile financial markets and trade uncertainty.Published On 1 Feb 20261 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has unveiled its annual budget, aiming for steady growth in an uncertain global economy rocked by recent tariff wars.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget for the 2026-2027 financial year in Parliament on Sunday, prioritising infrastructure and domestic manufacturing, with a total expenditure estimated at $583bn.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIndia’s economy has so far weathered punitive tariffs of 50 percent imposed by United States…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Saturday appointed an ex-con-turned prison reformer as commissioner of the Department of Correction as his administration pushes a rehabilitation-focused overhaul of corrections.Stanley Richards, who did time in the 1980s for robbery, will be the first former inmate to serve as corrections commissioner.”Stanley will make history in this role as the first ever formerly incarcerated person to serve as commissioner,” Mamdani said. “I will turn to Stanley as we work to build a city where justice is at the heart of our corrections system,” the mayor…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the world’s highest court for settling disputes related to international athletics, will hear an appeal by American skeleton athlete Katie Uhlaender for a spot in the upcoming Milan-Cortina Olympics. Uhlaender is seeking qualification after she missed out on the chance to qualify when Team Canada withdrew athletes from the North America Cup earlier this month, reducing the amount of points that the event could award. The point reduction made it impossible for Uhlaender to earn enough to qualify. Now, CAS will review the case. “Ms Uhlaender requests that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two teenage girls say a former teacher linked to a $63,000-a-year Brooklyn private school threatened them with a “revenge porn blast,” exposing nude images after allegedly coercing them for explicit photos, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit.The lawsuit accuses Winston Nguyen, a former teacher at Saint Ann’s School, of soliciting nude photos and videos from the girls when they were just 13 years old and later sharing the material with students. Nguyen pleaded guilty last year to a felony charge and multiple misdemeanors and is now serving a seven-year prison sentence, according…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontarians will be able to see February’s full snow moon rise on Sunday night as the new month rolls in. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the snow moon will reach peak illumination at 5:09 p.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 1.The moon will appear full shortly after sunset and remain visible throughout the night.The February full moon is traditionally known as the “snow moon,” a name tied to the heavy snowfall that typically occurs during this time of year. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign…

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul will begin a five-day trip to Southeast Asia and the Pacific this week as he seeks to deepen alliances with countries including Australia to counterbalance US and Chinese dominance.At a time when power politics threaten to replace the strength of the law, “we must expand our global network of robust partnerships along our core interests,” he said before embarking on the long-haul journey.Wadephul will kick off the trip with a visit to Singapore on Monday, followed by visits to New Zealand, Tonga, Australia and Brunei.All five countries share Germany’s desire for a stable international order…

NewsFeedIran has announced that it now considers all European Union militaries to be ‘terrorist groups’. This follows the EU’s terror designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) over a deadly crackdown on protesters.Published On 1 Feb 20261 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

What’s behind the partial government shutdown? – CBS News Watch CBS News The federal government is partially shut down this weekend. Congress failed to fund some of the largest agencies and departments before a Friday night deadline. Caitlin Huey-Burns has more.

Perth Lynx coach Ryan Petrik has a long memory and with second spot on the WNBL ladder now secured, he may take a leaf out of Fremantle’s books from 2013 and rest his big names for the last game of the season.

The junta’s National Defence and Security Council said civil servants who “left their workplaces without permission for various reasons” since February 2021 should “report and make contact with the offices of their former departments”.”Following verification, employees found not to have committed any offence, as well as those who had committed offences but have already served their sentences and whose names still appear on the blacklists, are being removed from the blacklists,” the council said in a statement published in the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.Public employees who had been absent from work were placed on blacklists, “leading some…