Read all live updates and breaking news from across India right here on International Business Times, India:
- Union Budget Session 2017 LIVE Updates: FM Arun Jaitley to take questions on Twitter
- Union Budget 2017: Narendra Modi labels it 'Uttam Budget' as Arun Jaitley cuts Income Tax
- Union Budget 2017: Highlights of railway budget; withdrawal of service charge on railway bookings and safety fund
Here are all the live updates:
4:46 pm IST: India Under-19 team announced for two four-day matches against England U-19
4:32 pm IST: PM Modi to attend St. Petersburg International Economic Forum as Guest of Honour to be held from June 1 to June 3, 2017, in St. Petersburg, Russia
3:26 pm IST: Delhi High Court reserves judgment on plea by Zakir Naik led NGO Islamic research foundation against immediate ban on the organisation
3:16 pm IST: Four dead after under construction building collapses in Kanpur's Jajmau. Police, army and fire brigade are at the spot
3:14 pm IST: Sadhvi Pragya Singh acquitted in Sunil Joshi murder case
3 pm IST: An accident was averted at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Wednesday morning after an aircraft belonging to IndiGo Airlines entered the wrong runway, where an aircraft belonging to Jet Airways was already stationed.
2:45 pm IST: JBT Teacher recruitment scam: Delhi HC deferred OP Chautala's parole matter to February 6 due to absence of Delhi Govt counsel
2:17 pm IST: Supreme Court refuses to modify it's earlier order of sending three people to represent the BCCI at ICC
2:07 pm IST: Anna Hazare met Police Commissioner of Mumbai and submitted a complaint regarding corruption in sugar factories in Maharashtra
1:56 pm IST: BSP Supremo Mayawati addresses an election rally in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut ahead of assembly elections
1:37 pm IST: PM Modi addresses nation following the presentation of the Union Budget 2017 in Parliament. He lauds Arun Jaitley saying that the finance minister has presented an uttam Budget
12:58 pm IST: Lok Sabha adjourned after FM Arun Jaitley presents the Budget in Parliament
12:30 pm IST: Sheena Bora murder case: Matter adjourned till February 4 after CBI submitted the list of documents in special CBI court.
11:36 am IST: Cabinet approves extension of tenure of loans under Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana from 15 to 20 years
11:09 am IST: FM Arun Jaitley presents Budget 2017 in Parliament amid uproar from the Opposition
11:01 am IST: Supreme Court to hear the matter of BCCI plea which sought only one person can be sent for ICC meet according to the CEO. SC had suggested three names
10:36 am IST: "Budget will be presented today, will formally announce shortly," says Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan
10:32 am IST: Ruckus breaks out in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly over Article 370. Assembly adjourned for one hour
10:26 am IST: Jallikattu: Tamil Nadu Governor appoints a commission of inquiry consisting of a single member, namely Justice Thiru S Rajeswaran, retired Judge of Madras High Court
10:16 am IST: PM Narendra Modi arrives at E Ahamad 's residence
10:02 am IST: Cabinet meeting will be held shortly in Parliament
9:50 am IST: Lok Sabha speaker Sumita Mahajan to visit E Ahamad 's residence at 10 am
9:28 am IST: Budget will be presented,obituary may happen before or after it,Government has spoken to all parties and arrived at consensus, say government sources
9:24 am IST: Delhi Police seize 17,000 quarter bottles of liquor worth Rs 10 lakh destined for poll bound Uttar Pradesh
9:10 am IST: Budget copies reach Parliament
9:01 am IST: The final decision on budget will be taken by the speaker. The decision is expected to be announced by 10 am.
8:44 am IST: Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoles the death of E Ahamed, who died due to a cardiac arrest in New Delhi.
7:54 am IST: Two women from terror group United National Liberation Front arrested by police in Imphal.
7:34 am IST: DRI seize Saudi riyal worth Rs 45.69 lakh from two Dubai-bound passengers at Kozhikode Airport. The currency was concealed in a bunch of bananas.
