BSP chief Mayawati on Friday slammed Nirmala Sitharaman's maiden budget and said the budget will prove useful only for the business class. Further criticising the budget 2019, the BSP chief said the common man of the country will have to bear the brunt of inflation and poverty.
Presenting her maiden budget at the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday announced a slew of steps to boost India's infrastructure including a budget allocation for 1,25,000 km of rural roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Read on to know the top 10 announcements from Budget 2019-20.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday presented her maiden budget in the Lok Sabha. In a major push to home buyers, the finance minister announced there would be no changes in the tax slabs.
Presenting her maiden budget in the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said a new television channel will be set up which will enable discussions of issues that are affecting the growth of startups in the country. In June 2016, the Union Cabinet had approved the setting up of the fund, which is managed by Small Industries Bank of India (SIDBI).
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her maiden budget in the Lok Sabha today. On National Highways Program, Sitharaman said a comprehensive restructuring of the national highways will be done. Read on to know about the other significant announcements made in regard to the Indian Railways.
Earlier in 2016, the Union Cabinet had approved the setting up of the fund, which is managed by Small Industries Bank of India (SIDBI). A Startup India status report for 2018 says the Startup India hub, set up to “resolve queries and provide handholding support” to startups, claims to have handled about 1.14 lakh queries. Nearly 2.3 lakh applications were received for an interactive online learning and development module.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman literally did a tightrope walk balancing the needs of the economy and fiscal constraints in her maiden Budget. Read through the blog to know how Nirmala Sitharaman's maiden Budget speech flowed out.
Budget 2019-20 will be the first budget of Modi 2.0 government but is the only second budget in 5 months. It will, however, be interesting to see how Sitharaman brings her touch to the economic policies of the nation. Read on to know what all is expected in today's budget.
Finance Minister Niramala Sitharaman presented her first Union Budget of Modi Sarkar 2.0 in the Parliament on Friday. In a major development, Paramilitary Force officials will get great relief from the Central government, as their salaries are likely to get hike without promotion, according to reports.
In the Interim Budget FY20, government announced PM Kisan scheme or the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PM KISAN) with an objective of providing direct income support to farmers, pegged at Rs 6,000 per year to be paid in three installments.
Ahead of Modi government's maiden Budget in the second term, an economic survey projecting the state of health of the country's economy and outlining the challenges will be tabled in Parliament on Thursday.
PTI caught up with scientists on the sidelines of the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureates meet to discuss their expectations from the budget and their views on the current situation of scientific research in the country. While most of them said that they expected increased funding for research, many also expressed their grouse with recent "scientific claims" by the government that has "no basis in science".
"Ever since Modi took over as prime minister in 2014, there has been a cautious effort to correct regional imbalances of the past and strike an optimum regional parity in all the centrally-aided initiatives," said Jeetendra Singh.
Ministries under Modi Govt to become paperless soon
7th Pay Commission: The NDA government's Union Budget 2019, to be presented by Nirmala Sitharaman, is likely to bring good news for Central Government employees. Centre may hike the minimum pay and fitment factor of the government employees beyond 7th Pay Commission in the upcoming Union Budget.
The Union Cabinet Monday cleared a DNA profiling bill, which seeks to control the use of DNA technology for establishing the identity of a person.
The 64-year-old former Foreign Secretary was welcomed into the party by BJP Working President J.P. Nadda at the party office in New Delhi.
This was among the primary promises made in the BJP’s vision document released in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
Two motrocycle-borne terrorists, believed to be from the Jaish-e-Mohammed group, fired at a CRPF patrol party on the Khanabal-Pahalgham road in Anantnag district, killing five personnel from the paramilitary force and injuring three others on Wednesday.
The border guarding forces of India and Bangladesh will discuss several issues, including those related to cross-border crimes, as their director generals meet in Dhaka for the first biannual talks after the Modi government was reelected, officials said Saturday.
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