New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Monday said the middle class in the country should have got more relief in the union budget proposals for 2016-17. “I think the middle…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Going the green way, the central government decided not to hand out hard copies of General Budget 2016-17 on Monday, making a departure from tradition. The general budget, an exhaustive…
Ludhiana, Feb 29 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had a narrow escape on Monday when some men armed with iron rods attacked his car here, coming “within an inch of grievously injuring” him, the…
Agra, Feb 29 (IANS) Four days after a VHP leader was murdered in Agra, the city was on Monday gripped by communal tension. The situation is tense and ahead of the 13th day death ritual…
Chandigarh, Feb 29 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said his car was attacked in Ludhiana in Punjab. “My car attacked with sticks and stones in Ludhiana. Front glass pane broken. Badals and…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who presented India’s national budget for the next fiscal in the Lok Sabha on Monday, gave every bit of a competition to the fashion savvy Prime…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The government on Monday announced allocation of Rs.100 crore for the celebrations of the birth centenary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday announced that ‘Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat’ scheme will be launched with an aim to connect states and districts of the country. “The states and…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Delhi High Court on Monday upheld the order of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) making it mandatory for cellular operators to compensate subscribers for call drops. A division…
Kannur (Kerala) Feb 29 (IANS) The first trial operations at Kerala’s fourth international airport Kannur on Monday were successful when an IAF aircraft landed at the airport that will open for commercial operations in September….
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday announced that the government will provide health insurance of up to Rs.1 lakh per family. “The government will provide health insurance of up to…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday announced the setting up of a higher education financing agency, with a fund of Rs.1,000 crore. Presenting the 2016-2017 Budget in the Lok Sabha,…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “protecting” those who raised anti-India slogans at the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus here, saying he wanted to…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The government will set up 3,000 new generic medicine stores across the country to tackle the shortage of drugs in rural areas, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday. “For…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday allocated Rs.38,500 crore for schemes under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). He announced this while presenting the 2016-17 annual…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday sought permission from Lok Sabah Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to continue presenting the union budget for 2016-17 while sitting in his seat. Jaitley sought the…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) One crore youths would be trained under the government’s skill development programme in the next three years, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday. Presenting the Union Budget for 2016-2017…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The central government on Monday announced allocation of Rs.9,000 crore for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign) in the country. “The concept of Swachh Bharat was very close to…
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New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy morning here with the minimum temperature settling at 18 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The sky would remain cloudy in the day ahead with…