{"id":989247,"date":"2026-02-02T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989247"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:44:00","slug":"budget-2026-mobile-phones-leather-goods-cheaper-alcohol-luxury-watches-to-cost-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/budget-2026-mobile-phones-leather-goods-cheaper-alcohol-luxury-watches-to-cost-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2026: Mobile phones, leather goods cheaper; alcohol, luxury watches to cost more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer medicines, smartphones and travel abroad may strain wallets less this year, while imported liquor, luxury watches and tobacco are set to pinch harder, as Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s ninth Union Budget redrew the everyday cost map for households. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a closer look at what gets cheaper \u2014 and what becomes costlier \u2014 after Budget 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer medicines, smartphones and travel abroad may strain wallets less this year, while imported liquor, luxury watches and tobacco are set to pinch harder, as Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s ninth Union Budget redrew the everyday cost map for households. Here is a closer look at what gets cheaper \u2014 and what becomes costlier \u2014 after Budget 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}