Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said the NDA government had set the ball rolling for a ‘New India’ in its first term and programmes will be accelerated and red tape reduced going forward.
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Sitharaman (59) began presenting the Modi 2.0 government’s maiden budget in the Lok Sabha today. Prior to the presentation, the Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the Budget for 2019-20.
IIT-Madras has appointed eminent scholar K S Kannan as chair-professor of its Sant Rajinder Singhji Maharaj chair, which was set up last year to study traditional Indian knowledge and philosophy.
Weeks after an army jawan from Telangana alleged that six acres of agricultural land belonging to his family had been encroached, the soldier’s father has gone “missing” from his village. S Swamy, who is posted in Jammu and Kashmir, suspected that his father has been kidnapped by those who had “grabbed” their land and said he came on leave Wednesday and also approached the police in this regard.
The Congress in Karnataka Thursday indicated it has not been able to make much headway in convincing two of its MLAs to withdraw their resignation but maintained there was no threat to the coalition government, even as it accused the BJP of trying to topple it.
The Congress in Telangana Thursday hit out at the TRS government for allegedly preventing party legislators from visiting the village in where a woman forest official was recently attacked.
The Supreme Court today refused to hear a plea of Chinese social media app TikTok for the transfer of cases relating to ban on it from the Madras High Court to the apex court.
The government today pegged the growth rate for the current fiscal at 7 per cent, marginally up from the five-year low of 6.8 per cent recorded in the previous fiscal.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury will face trial after pleading not guilty in a defamation case filed by an RSS worker.