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Watch: Budget 2024 | What’s in it for women and children? Finance Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Union Budget 2024-25 carried an allocation of more than Rs 3 lakh crore for schemes benefitting women and girls and promoting women-led development, during her presentation of the Budget in the Lok Sabha on July 23. To encourage…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman shows a red pouch carrying the Budget documents. | Photo Credit: PTI Loaded with political pragmatism, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23 announced development of Vishnupath temple at Gaya and Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya, both in Bihar, on the model of the Kashi-Vishwanath temple corridor to turn them…
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Audi have announced former Ferrari Team Principal Mattia Binotto as the new boss of their Formula 1 project on Tuesday. Earlier this year German car maker Audi took full ownership of the Sauber team, which will be run under the Audi banner from 2026, with an all-new power unit currently being developed in-house…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a post-Budget press conference in New Delhi on July 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI The Ministry of Minority Affairs has seen a mere 2.7% increase, from funds allocated in the previous year’s Budget Estimate (BE), for the financial year 2024-25 in the Union Budget presented on Tuesday. This…
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Traditionally, Muslims bury their dead facing Mecca. (Representational) Colombo: Sri Lanka’s government Tuesday formally apologised to the island’s Muslim minority for forcing cremations on Covid victims, disregarding WHO assurances that burials in line with Islamic rites were safe. The cabinet issued an “apology regarding the compulsory cremation policy during the Covid-19 pandemic”, the government said…
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Watch: Budget 2024 | What’s in it for MSMEs and manufacturing sector? The MSMEs and labour-intensive manufacturing sector have a reason to cheer as the budget presented by the Finance Minister on Tuesday has a special focus on these units. The sector is going through a crisis phase for multiple reasons. The export market is…
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Manoj Jarange had secured anticipatory (pre-arrest) bail in the case in 2013, said his lawyer (File) Pune: A court here on Tuesday issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange in connection with a 2013 cheating case after he failed to appear before it, his lawyer said. Manoj Jarange has launched a…
The UK has been grappling with a hefty asylum backlog. (Representational) London: Britain’s new Labour government announced Tuesday that it will stop housing migrants on a controversial accommodation barge from next year as it tries to clear a backlog of asylum requests. The interior ministry said the government would not renew the lease for the…
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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. File Karnataka appears to be entering a fresh round of tussle with the Centre as the Congress-ruled State on July 23 declared that it will boycott the NITI Ayog meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on July 27, accusing the Centre of ignoring its demands in the Union Budget….
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were tied at 44% in a July 15-16 poll (File) Vice President Kamala Harris opened up a marginal two-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The poll, conducted on Monday and Tuesday, followed…
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