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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Budget in Parliament tomorrow. Here's a look at what India needs and whether we can expect an all-inclusive growth in Budget 2021.

As a team from the NSG's Bomb Data Centre will begin analysing fragments of the IED (improvised explosive device) that was detonated outside the Israeli embassy in central Delhi on Friday evening, Israeli ambassador said the evidence from the scene of the blast shows this was a terror attack targeted at the embassy.

On our show tonight, with our distinguished panel comprising of TV Narendran, CEO and Managing Director, Tata Steel Ltd, Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry and Co-chairman of Forbes Marshall Private Limited, Dr Naushad Forbes, we discuss what industry wants from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and explore CII's pre-budget recommendations to revive the demand cycle in the Indian economy.

Unprecedented chaos was unleashed upon Delhi on the 72nd Republic Day, as the tractor rally by the protesting farmers went off the designated course. We ask the panel on our show tonight: Where was the leadership of the farm law protestors as violence broke out? Why were security forces caught unaware? Did the Delhi Police not have prior intelligence? Where does this leave the farmers' negotiations with the government?

An NDTV exclusive interview with the Bangladesh contingent which marched on Republic Day as India and Bangladesh celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relationship.

An order from a judge on Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court indicates that there must be skin-to-skin contact with sexual intent for an act to be considered sexual assault. The judge was hearing the case of a 12-year-old child who was groped. The man who did this was acquitted of the tougher POCSO Act - which entails a three-year imprisonment -- to get a reduced sentence of one year. Justice Pushpa Ganediwala ruled, and this to many is the shocker, that, "The act of pressing of breast of the child aged 12 years, in the absence of any specific detail as to whether the top was removed or whether he inserted his hand inside the top and pressed her breast, would not fall in the definition of sexual assault." The National Commission for Women will now be challenging this order.

The wealth of Indian billionaires went up by 35%, while 84% households in India suffered a loss in income in April 2020 alone. Till the end of October, the number of students affected by the closure of the educational institutions stands at over 32 crores. Of those, 84% reside in rural areas and 70% attend government schools. Oxfam India's survey reports that close to 40% teachers in government schools fear that the prolonged school closure might lead to a third of the students not returning once schools reopen.

Delhi Police have allowed protesting farmers to hold a tractor rally in the national capital on Republic Day. The farmers will take out the rally as the talks over the farm laws have not seen a headway. Farmers from Maharashtra's Nashik also marched to Mumbai to show solidarity.

As the BJP and Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress tussle over the legacy of legendary freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose can the BJP make a cultural connect with Bengal or can the TMC make the 'outsider' tag stick?

The S&P BSE Sensex crossed the 50,000 mark this morning. The Sensex rose as much as 335 points to hit an all-time high of 50,126.73 and Nifty 50 index also moved 14,700 mark for the first time. Amid variations, we look at what is sustaining this boom and whether it is here to stay.