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‘But can it afford to present a scenario within the existing legal framework of fiscal consolidation?’, asks A K Bhattacharya. Taxation and spending outlays usually become key focus areas of all government budgets as they directly impact both the taxpayers and non-taxpayers. But for the Union Budget for 2021-2022, to be presented on February 1, […]
Asked what he believes swung the hard-fought elections in the NDA’s favour, he said it was largely due to Narendra Modi’s welfare programmes for the poor Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal on Wednesday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s welfare policies for the ruling NDA’s win in the assembly polls and said all anti-incumbency claims have […]
Since 2014, Tomar has helmed many departments, and now also heads the ministries of Rural Development and Food Processing Industries Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar asserts new farm reform laws will free farmers from clutches of mandis but won’t affect APMCs which are a state subject, denies rush in passing the Bills in Parliament, and […]
Opposition parties have alleged that the two agriculture Bills will undermine the safety net provided to the farmers by the MSP system and will lead to their exploitation by big companies. The central government might create a mobile application to record all off-mandi transactions done under the new Bill on agricultural trade, a senior official said. […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday addressed ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Defence Industry Outreach Webinar’ through video conferencing. During the conference, PM Modi emphasised the need of making India self-reliant in the defence sector. Here are the highlights of the speech: ‘To permit up to 74% FDI in the defence manufacturing ‘ A decision has been taken to […]
The submarine optical fibre cable link will deliver bandwidth of 2 x 200 Gigabits per second (Gbps) between Chennai and Port Blair, and 2 x 100 Gbps between Port Blair and the other islands. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and dedicate to the nation via video conferencing the submarine Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) connecting […]
The Prime Minister's message came as Indian soldiers remain locked in conflict with the PLA in Ladakh, with the disengagement process stalled by the Chinese reluctance to step back from several places in the high-altitude border area. Needless enmity with everyone comes naturally to the wicked, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Mann ki […]
If the Ladakh episode has ended, this is the time to find the truth about all the aspects of it and inform the nation and the world, advises Ambassador T P Sreenivasan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose discretion as the better part of valour at a critical moment in history when he told an all […]
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will address her fifth press conference in as many days, on Sunday. Sitharaman has been announcing the tranches of the Rs 20 lakh crore package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PM Modi had announced the package during his address to the nation on Tuesday, vowing to make the country ‘atmanirbhar’ […]
India’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation tomorrow i.e 14th April at 10 am. The 21 days nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus ends tomorrow. And it is expected Modi is likely to talk about its possible extension. Post Modi’s video conference with CM of the states on Saturday, everyone expected […]