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The Union Budget has increased the allocation for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) by 15.45%. The total allocation of ₹20,516.61 crore made for the annual requirements of the MEA is, however, without the EXIM bank provisioning that is also part of the MEA’s annual budget plans. The Ministry has received ₹6,750 crore comprising 33%…
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A Texas business owner has become popular on social media after he refused to repair two World War II-era Hitler Youth knives, brought in by Nazi sympathisers. Johnathan Sibley, co-owner of the Blade Bar in Edom, took issue with not only the knives but also with the specific repair requests by the customers with the…
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A worker fumigating a private building surroundings to control mosquitoes and to prevent spread of dengue, in Bengaluru A study that looked at dengue deaths and meteorological conditions in Pune during the period 2004 to 2015 using both statistical tools and machine learning methods found that temperature, rainfall, and relative humidity were associated with increased…
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Prathap C Reddy. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Prathap C. Reddy, chairman of Apollo Hospitals, said Union Budget 2025 will serve as a launchpad to establish India as a global centre for advanced healthcare and medical innovation. Praising the Budget, Dr. Reddy said the addition of 75,000 new medical seats over the next five years…
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Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI Highlighting that not a single meaningful financial allocation had been made to West Bengal in the Union Budget 2025-25 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leadership on Saturday (Saturday 1, 2024) said that the Budget was nothing short of an…
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Ms. Sitharaman set out four ‘engines’ that informed the Union Budget’s proposed schemes and initiatives. These are agriculture, MSMEs (or Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises), Investments and Exports. Under these categories, the Finance Minister laid out the government’s plans that focused on areas like sustainability, self-reliance, economic growth, employment and more. Explore these schemes using the…
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Telangana Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Commission Chairman M. Kodanda Reddy expressed disappointment over the Union Budget, stating that the agriculture sector has not been given due priority. He alleged that the Union government was planning to hand over the sector to big corporate companies. In a statement, Mr. Reddy said the agriculture sector, including the…
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New Delhi: Signalling a commitment to research and development, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday allocated Rs 20,000 crore to the Department of Science and Technology as a corpus for a fund to promote private sector-driven innovation. Nirmala Sitharaman had announced setting up of a Rs 1 lakh crore research and development fund in…
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Unlike land mammals, dolphins and other marine mammals have limited olfactory capabilities — their sense of smell is largely nonfunctional in aquatic environments. Researchers have therefore speculated that dolphins have other ways of sensing their surroundings and detecting food. A recent study has discovered that juvenile bottlenose dolphins have specialised receptors for detecting the fatty…
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New Delhi: The government on Saturday proposed to create new tariff lines for makhana products and rice based on process and varieties. These changes under the Customs Tariff Act 1975 will come into effect from May 1, this year. According to the Budget document for 2025-26, the government has proposed provision for creating new tariff…
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