The banking sector anticipates targeted policy support in Union Budget 2026 to address credit constraints and rising NPAs in unsecured loans. Key expectations include enhanced MSME credit guarantees, co-lending schemes, and continued digital financial inclusion support. The industry also seeks incentives for pension and insurance adoption and regulatory relief for rural banks.

Source: Budget 2026: What banks and financial services expect from FM this time?

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World Cup 2026 attendees can expect faster US visas. Brand USA is facilitating the process for ticket holders. Curated experiences like road trips on Route 66 are planned. Indian travelers will find familiar communities in host cities like New Jersey and New York. AI tools will assist in planning multi-city itineraries for the event.

Source: Fast-tracked visas await 2026 T20 World Cup fans

"Sunlight is painting."

Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne

"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."

Source: O. Henry

"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money."

Source: Plautus

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Source: R. Buckminster Fuller

"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."

Source: Ovid

"Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on."

Source: Billie Holiday

"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."

Source: Louise L. Hay

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

Source: Marcel Proust

"Sports is like a war without the killing."

Source: Ted Turner

"Big girls need big diamonds."

Source: Elizabeth Taylor

"Never wear anything that panics the cat."

Source: P. J. O'Rourke

"I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend."

Source: Joan Crawford

"But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a."

Source: John Galliano

"Contrast is what makes photography interesting."

Source: Conrad Hall

"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures."

Source: Martin Kippenberger

"I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed."

Source: Steve Lacy

"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."

Source: Dag Hammarskjold

"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Source: Edwin Markham

"Man is what he reads."

Source: Joseph Brodsky

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

Source: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin sharply criticized governor RN Ravi in the state assembly, accusing him of undermining constitutional conventions by refusing to read his customary address. Stalin highlighted the Dravidian model government's achievements and dismissed law and order concerns.

Source: ‘Not inferior to anyone in patrio... governor, says no one needs to teach us

A devastating family dispute in Lawrenceville, Georgia, tragically claimed the lives of four adults, including an Indian national, early Friday. Three children, who bravely hid and alerted authorities, survived the horrific incident. The alleged shooter, identified as Vijay Kumar, has been arrested and faces multiple charges.

Source: Children hid in closet: Indian national, 3 relatives shot dead in family dispute in US