New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed Monday more than doubling of healthcare spending while imposing a new agri cess on certain imported goods and raising customs duty on items ranging from cotton to electronics in a bid to pull the economy out of the...
New Delhi: Following are the highlights of the 2021-22 Budget presented Monday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament Fiscal position and health outlay Spending on healthcare hiked by 137 per cent to over Rs 2.23 lakh crore Rs 35,000 crore outlay for COVID vaccine...
Parts of mobile phones, chargers to get costlier New Delhi: The government proposed Monday to impose import duty on components of mobile phones and chargers, to enhance local value addition. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced review of 400 exemptions in customs duty including those applicable...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Monday commenced presentation of the Budget for 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha that is expected to provide relief to the pandemic-hit common man as well as focus more on driving economic recovery through higher spending on healthcare, infrastructure and...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Monday used her trademark 'Bahi-Khata', a ledger wrapped in a red-coloured cloth, to carry Budget documents as she arrived in Parliament House to present her third straight Budget. Sitharaman, India's first full-time woman Finance Minister, had in July 2019...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Monday called on President Ram Nath Kovind before presenting the Union Budget 2021-22. As per established tradition, the Finance Minister met the President at the Rashtrapati Bhawan before heading to Parliament. The Union Cabinet will meet at 10.15 am...
Naypyitaw: Myanmar military television says the military has taken control of the country for one year. An announcer on military-owned Myawaddy TV made the announcement Monday morning. State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi was detained under house arrest, reports said, as communications were cut to...
New Delhi: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of farmers’ unions, claimed Sunday that over 100 people were missing since the violence during the tractor parade Republic Day. The SKM said it has set up a six-member committee to look into the matter....
New Delhi: Farmer leader Naresh Tikait Sunday said that protesting farmers will honour the dignity of prime minister, but are also committed to protect their own self-respect, a day after Narendra Modi said his government was just a “phone call away” for talks with them....
New Delhi: The Centre has said that the outbreak of bird flu in poultry birds has been confirmed in 10 states, while 13 states have reported the disease in crows, migratory and wild birds. Kerala, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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