Month: February 2024

Budget 2024 | Nirmala Sitharaman delivers her shortest Budget speech

February 1, 2024 admin

People watch the live budget speech telecast from Parliament House, as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2024 on February 01, 2024. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 presented her sixth consecutive Budget with a speech lasting 56 minutes, her shortest-ever. Dressed in a turquoise-coloured embroidered…

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Interim Budget 2024 | Govt to come out with White Paper on mismanagement of economy prior to 2014, says Sitharaman

February 1, 2024 admin

A man watches FM Nirmala Sitharaman read her Budget speech at an electronic shop in Mumbai, on Feb. 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The Government will come out with a White Paper on the mismanagement of economy prior to 2014 with an aim to draw lessons. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA came to power…

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Where does the money come from and where is it allocated?

February 1, 2024 admin

People watch Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presenting the Interim Budget 2024 in Parliament, at a television showroom in Kolkata, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Interim Budget in the Lok Sabha today. In her Budget speech she spoke of the profound transformation undergone by the Indian…

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Analysis | Nirmala Sitharaman’s interim Budget reveals BJP’s confidence in comeback

February 1, 2024 admin

The announcement in the Interim Budget 2024 of providing rooftop solar power generation to one crore households has come as a response to multiple guarantees of free power by different political parties in different States, including in Delhi and Punjab by the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress in others. | Photo Credit: AP Finance Minister…

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Budget 2024 | Branding and marketing of iconic tourist destinations to push tourism

February 1, 2024 admin

Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes a morning stroll on one of the pristine beaches, in Lakshadweep. File. | Photo Credit: ANI The Centre will work with States for the comprehensive development of iconic tourist centres and their branding and marketing at a global scale in order to promote Indian tourist destinations within the country as…

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Cabinet approves bilateral investment treaty with U.A.E.

February 1, 2024 admin

Union Minister Anurag Thakur briefs the media on Cabinet decisions at National Media Centre, in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Union Cabinet on February 1 approved an investment treaty with the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) that is likely to significantly boost bilateral economic engagement in a range of areas, including manufacturing and…

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Government approves extension of subsidy scheme on sugar supplied to AAY families by 2 years till March 2026

February 1, 2024 admin

A view of the stock point in Vijayawada. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri The government on February 1approved the extension of subsidy scheme for sugar supplied to 1.89 crore Antyodya Anna Yojna (AAY) families through ration shops for two years till March 31, 2026. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narender Modi, approved extension…

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2024 Interim Budget | Net zero gain for job guarantee scheme

February 1, 2024 admin

According to some estimates, as on February 1, the Centre owes ₹ 16,000 crores in wages under MGNREGS to the State governments. File | Photo Credit: S. Harpal Singh With allocation of ₹86,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the budget for the scheme for the financial year 2024-25 has…

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Kerala’s ruling front and Opposition slam Centre’s Interim Budget as political exercise in futility

February 1, 2024 admin

Interim Budget 2024 was presented by Union Minister For Finance Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on February 1, 2024. (file) | Photo Credit: REUTERS Initial reactions to the Interim Budget 2024 presented by Union Minister For Finance Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on February 1 (Thursday) signal a limited political concurrence between Kerala’s ruling front and the…

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2024 Interim Budget | Inclusive, innovative, sign of continuity: PM Modi

February 1, 2024 admin

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the presentation of the Interim Budget 2024 in the Lok Sabha, at Parliament House in New Delhi, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi characterised the Interim Budget tabled on Thursday as “inclusive and innovative”, one that “carries the confidence of continuity”, a reference to…

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