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Budget 2024: Textile Industry: Textile industry expresses disappointment

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Budget 2024: Textile Industry: Textile industry expresses disappointment

The textile and apparel industry, while welcoming extension of the Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies (RoSCTL) scheme for two years, has expressed disappointment over unchanged Import Duties. Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council chairman Sunil Patwari said continuation of the RoSCTL was essential for the long-term trade planning. Orders could be placed in…

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Budget 2024: PM Poshan, Samagra Shiksha allocations much lower than pre-pandemic years | Data

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Budget 2024: PM Poshan, Samagra Shiksha allocations much lower than pre-pandemic years | Data

Education scheme budget: Students in a classroom in Radhakrishnapur High School which uses innovative means for the upliftment of their students. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI In FY25, the government is expected to spend ₹73,008 crore on school education. The allocation marginally increased by ₹534 crore, when compared with the revised estimates for the year…

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2024 Interim Budget | Marginal rise in allocations for farming, fisheries

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2024 Interim Budget | Marginal rise in allocations for farming, fisheries

Watch | Marginal increase in allocations to agriculture, fisheries, and animal husbandry Maintaining that the ‘annadata’s’ welfare is the highest priority of the Centre, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her Budget that farmers’ empowerment and well-being will drive the country forward. The allocation for the Agriculture Ministry is ₹1,17,528.79 crore, an increase of…

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Key takeaways from interim Budget 2024-25 in charts

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Key takeaways from interim Budget 2024-25 in charts

India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024.  | Photo Credit: Bloomberg The Finance Minister presented her sixth budget today. Her announcements ranged from railways, tourism, healthcare, technology, aviation, green energy, aquaculture, housing, and more. With regards to taxation, no changes were announced to…

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Budget 2024: Spending on rural development increases marginally, but not all schemes benefit | Data

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Budget 2024: Spending on rural development increases marginally, but not all schemes benefit | Data

Rural development schemes: Workers engaged in the MNREGS works at Siddharampuram in Anantapur district. | Photo Credit: Prasad RVS In FY25, the government is expected to spend ₹2,65,808 crore on rural development. The allocation marginally increased by ₹26,824 crore, when compared with the revised estimates for the year FY24. However, the increase in the overall…

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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Sci-fi writers

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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Sci-fi writers

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Sci-fi writers 1 / 5 | Which author first coined the term ‘genetic engineering’? H. G. Wells H. P. Lovecraft Jack Williamson Howard Fast The term ‘genetic engineering’ was invented by science-fiction author Jack Williamson in his 1951 novel, Dragon’s Island. Next 2 / 5 | Often referred…

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Budget for Census slashed, population count may not take place in first quarter

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Budget for Census slashed, population count may not take place in first quarter

The allocation for Census Survey and Statistics has been slashed to ₹1,277.80 crore from ₹1,546.65 crore in 2023-24, a further indication that the Census exercise, which was to be initially completed in 2021, is not planned in the first quarter of the fiscal. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Union Home Ministry has been…

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WHO applauds extension of healthcare coverage to ASHA, anganwadi workers and helpers

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WHO applauds extension of healthcare coverage to ASHA, anganwadi workers and helpers

Given that Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers, anganwadi workers, and helpers are at the forefront of health care delivery at the grassroots level, the World Health Organization (WHO) has applauded February 1 Union Budget announcement on extending healthcare coverage to them under Ayushman Bharat. Roderico H. Ofrin, WHO’s representative in India, said that various…

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