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Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Labour Ministry got its highest ever allocation in this year’s Union Budget and the increase in funding will help focus on the new employment generation scheme, Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Sunday (February 2, 2025). The “record ₹32,646 crore” allocation is almost 80% higher…
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A view of the Parliament building in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Lok Sabha has been allocated ₹903 crore in the Union Budget, more than double the amount given to the Rajya Sabha. A sizeable allocation — ₹558.81 crore of the total ₹903 crore — has been assigned to the Lok Sabha…
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APCC president Y.S. Sharmila said it was ridiculous on the part of the Chief Minister to call it a progressive budget. File | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y.S. Sharmila has slammed the Centre for “making meagre allocations for Andhra Pradesh in the Union Budget”. Taking to the social media platform…
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: PTI The government has only committed to “half-hearted” steps of registering gig workers on e-SHRAM and including them under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, the Congress said on Sunday (February 2, 2025) and asserted that India needs a national legal and social security architecture…
Volkswagen’s India unit said in a statement it is using all legal remedies as it cooperates with authorities and remains committed to ensuring “full compliance” with all global and local laws. File image used for representative person only. | Photo Credit: Reuters Volkswagen has sued Indian authorities to quash an “impossibly enormous” tax demand of…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during an interview with PTI, in New Delhi, on February 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday (February 2, 2025) rejected criticism over the slide of the Indian rupee, saying it has depreciated only against a strengthening U.S. dollar but remained stable against all…
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during an interview with PTI, in New Delhi, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday (February 2, 2025) described the Union Budget as “by the people, for the people, of the people”, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was fully…
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Anti-Tobacco activists in Mysuru have expressed their disappointment over the failure of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget to either increase sin tax or a percentage increase in cess under National Calamity Contingent Duty (NCCD). In a statement in Mysuru, Convenor of Anti-Tobacco Forum, Mysuru, Vasanthkumar Mysoremath regretted that the “tobacco industry was smiling while every…
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Congress general in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh said, the government’s neglect of this crucial safety net exposes its indifference to rural livelihoods. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Congress on Sunday (February 2, 2025) lashed out at the government over keeping the MGNREGS budget stagnant and said the “neglect” of this crucial safety net exposes its…
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Aaditya Thackeray. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Opposition parties in Maharashtra slammed the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as ‘Bihar budget’. While the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Congress and the Shiv Sena UBT hit out at the Budget for open favouritism, the State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its governing…
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