Elections keep happening but budget session very important, must make it fruitful: PM
New Delhi: Elections keep happening but Parliament’s Budget session is very important as it draws a blueprint for the entire year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday and urged all MPs to make it fruitful by holding discussions with an “open mind”. Addressing the media ahead of the start of the session, Modi said […]
BJP govts took away poor people’s money to fill coffers: Cong
Dehradun: All-India Congress Committee spokesperson Charan Singh Sapra on Monday accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in Uttarakhand of “picking pockets” of the poor to fill their coffers. Giving a call to people to dislodge the BJP from power if they want to defeat inflation, Sapra said prices of essential commodities like pulses […]
FM to boost budget spending to support eco growth
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to strike a fine balance between being fiscally prudent and growth supportive when she presents her fourth straight budget on Tuesday, which is expected to have plans to boost spending to revive investment and create jobs. The Budget for the fiscal year starting April 1, 2022 is […]
GST collection tops Rs 1.38 lakh cr in Jan
New Delhi: GST collection in January crossed Rs 1.38 lakh crore in January, a growth of 15 per cent over the year-ago period. Total number of GSTR-3B returns filed up to January 30, 2022 is 1.05 crore that includes 36 lakh quarterly returns, the Finance Ministry said. January is the fourth straight month when Goods […]
13 JKAS officers transferred
Srinagar: Government on Monday ordered transfer of 13 JKAS officers in the interest of administration with immediate effect. As per an order issued by the General Administration Department, Tariq Hussain Ganai, JKAS, Director, Rural Sanitation, J&K, has been transferred and posted as Director, Hospitality and Protocol, J&K, against an available vacancy. Rakesh Kumar Srangal, JKAS, […]
Many steps taken to give better opportunities to people of hitherto neglected J&K, Ladakh: Prez
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has taken many important steps to provide better opportunities for education, health and employment to the people of “hitherto left neglected” Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Monday. Addressing a joint sitting of both houses of Parliament at the start of the budget session, Kovind […]
Elections keep happening but budget session very important, must make it fruitful: PM
New Delhi: Elections keep happening but Parliament’s Budget session is very important as it draws a blueprint for the entire year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday and urged all MPs to make it fruitful by holding discussions with an “open mind”. Addressing the media ahead of the start of the session, Modi said […]
Kashmir gets some respite from severe cold conditions
Srinagar: The minimum temperature across Kashmir improved as ‘Chilla-i-Kalan’ — the harshest winter period when the chances of snowfall are maximum and most frequent – ended, officials said on Monday. However, the minimum temperature settled below the freezing point across the valley on Sunday night, the officials said. Chilla-i-Kalan — the 40-day harshest winter period which […]
FM tables Economic Survey 2021-22 in Lok Sabha
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented the Economic Survey that details the state of the economy ahead of the government’s Budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2022. It projects an 8-8.5 per cent growth rate for the Indian economy in 2022-23 fiscal year (April 2022 to March 2023). This compares […]
Top JeM commander among five militants killed in two separate encounters
In 11 encounters this month, 21 terrorists, including eight Pakistanis killed: IGP
Srinagar: Five militants including a top commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) were killed in two separate overnight encounters in Pulwama and Budgam districts of the valley, officials said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters at a joint press conference in Pulwama, IGP, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, and GoC of the Army’s Victor Force Major General Prashant Srivastava said […]
