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Presenting her seventh Union Budget and the first after this year’s Lok Sabha election, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23 unveiled a flurry of measures aimed at fixing the woes of unemployed youth, small businesses, and the middle class, and sought to strengthen the ruling NDA coalition’s bonds with support for multiple investment projects…
New Delhi: Job creation as the focus of this year’s budget and the Centre’s much publicised spends on infrastructure became the two key issues over which Congress’s Shashi Tharoor and the BJP’s Jay Panda butted heads this evening, each expressing views that are polar opposites. The huge push for internship and jobs for first-timers has…
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New Delhi: The first budget of the third term of Narendra Modi government bore a clear imprint of the recent Lok Sabha election, in which the BJP failed to gain majority on its own and had to depend on allies to form government. The reaction went beyond the special packages for Nitish Kumar’s Bihar and…
S. Gajraj, chairman, Marketing Committee, Tamilnadu Small and Tiny Industries Association, and his family. Annual Income: ₹25 lakh Number of members in the family: 3 The Budget is pro-poor and pro-women, who are the most vulnerable. It rightly addresses their concerns, and has allocated money for their uplift. But the tax rebate could have been…
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All licences given to puja organisers will be free of cost and this year. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced government assistance of Rs 85,000 for each community Durga Puja organiser in the state. Last year, the state government gave Rs 70,000 to each community Durga Puja organiser in West Bengal. The Chief…
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India head coach Gautam Gambhir© X (Twitter) The new head coach Gautam Gambhir on Tuesday took charge of the Indian men’s cricket team as the visitors hit the ground running in their first practice session in Pallekele, ahead of three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka. Gambhir, who replaced the legendary Rahul Dravid at…
Things are not going well for India all-rounder Hardik Pandya, who is facing numerous issues in his both personal and professional life. Few days back, his wife Natasa Stankovic broke the news of separation on her social media. Two days later, Suryakumar Yadav surpassed him to become India’s captain for the upcoming T20Is…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23 announced that the Union government will launch the PM – Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyaan with an aim at achieving full saturation of basic facilities among five crore Scheduled Tribe families across 63,000 villages in tribal-majority areas and aspirational districts. The scheme, designed after the PM-JANMAN to achieve saturation…
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S. Selladurai, a retired professor of Anna University, and his wife Geetha. | Photo Credit: Akhila Easwaran Annual income: ₹17 lakh No. of family members: 3 The Union Budget has minor benefits for the salaried class and retired people, said S. Selladurai, a retired professor of Anna University. The increase in the standard deduction limit…
New Delhi: The city recorded a maximum temperature of 36.2 degrees Celsius, 1.3 notches above normal, according to the weather department The relative humidity at 5.30 pm stood at 68 per cent. The city will be on “yellow” alert for the next two days, the IMD said. The weather office has forecast moderate rainfall for…
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