Stopped from speaking at Niti, Mamata walks out
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee walked out of the NITI Aayog meeting in New Delhi on Saturday as she said she was stopped from speaking "after just five minutes". She also slammed the Union Budget for 2024-25, calling it...
Revised NEET-UG 2024 results declared by NTA after Supreme Court order
New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has declared the revised NEET-UG 2024 results and the toppers' list following a Supreme Court directive on Tuesday to withdraw compensatory marks awarded to a select group of students for a Physics question. Initially,...
18 confirmed dead in Kathmandu plane crash
A private airlines' Pokhara-bound plane crashed during takeoff at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) here, killing 18 of the 19 people on board. The pilot of the Saurya Airlines plane survived the crash and was taken to hospital, officials said. The...
Budget: “All Talk, No Action,” Says Congress
The Congress on Tuesday claimed that the government seems to have finally come around to "tacitly admitting that mass unemployment is a national crisis" that requires urgent attention, as it slammed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget speech as being "more...
Union Budget 2024: Relief for taxpayers under new income tax regime
New Delhi: The government announced significant changes to the new tax regime. The standard deduction has been increased from Rs 50,000 to Rs 75,000. Pensioners will benefit from a higher deduction on family pension, which has been raised from Rs...
Markets turn very volatile amid Budget presentation
Stock markets turned highly volatile amid the Union Budget presentation on Tuesday. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped as soon as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman began presenting the Budget for 2024-25. But, within minutes it slipped in the red and...
Working women hostels, creches to be set up
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says, "Working women hostels will be set up. Higher participation of women in workforce to be promoted through hostels and creches...Our government will bring National Cooperation Policy for overall development. Our government will provide financial support...
Rs 3 lakh crore for schemes benefiting women, girls
Other announcements Sitharaman made in her Budget speech are: Credit guarantee scheme for MSMEs to facilitate term loans without collateral or third party guarantee Govt to launch saturation drive under Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM JANMAN)...
BUDGET Internship at 500 top cos for 1 cr youth
Presenting Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says, "The Government will launch a scheme to provide internship opportunities to 1 crore youth in 500 top companies with Rs 5000 per month as internship allowance and one-time assistance of Rs...
FM to create history with 7th straight Budget
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to create history when she presents her seventh straight budget on Tuesday for 2024-25, surpassing the record of former prime minister Morarji Desai. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government's first budget of the third term in...
Cabinet clears Union Budget 2024-25
The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday approved the full budget for 2024-25, sources said. Following this, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her seventh budget in the Lok Sabha. Sitharaman, the first full-time woman finance minister...
SC stays directive on eateries along Kanwar Yatra
The Supreme Court stays several state government directives asking eateries on Kanwariya Yatra route to put owners' names. It also issues notices to Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh governments on petitions challenging their directive asking eateries on Kanwariya Yatra...
Home Minister Amit Shah Chairs High-Level Meeting on Security with Law Enforcement Heads in New Delhi
Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah chaired a high Level Meeting with the various Heads of Security and Law Enforcement Agencies to review the functioning of Multi Agency Centre (MAC) of IB, responsible for tackling security challenges in the country,...
Won’t let Mumbai turn into Adani city: Uddhav
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said the Dharavi slum redevelopment project tender awarded to industrialist Gautam Adani's firm will be scrapped if his party comes to power in Maharashtra. Addressing a press conference, Thackeray said his party...
In a first, Indian women in uniform at Olympics!
24 personnel from the armed forces, including ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and two women participants, are among the 117 Indian athletes who are set to test their mettle at the upcoming Paris Olympics. The presence of these two women athletes...
Woman dead as part of building crashes in Mumbai
A woman was killed and three others were injured after some portion of a balcony of a four-storey residential building located on Grant Road in south Mumbai came crashing down on Saturday, officials said. The building, Rubinnisa Manzil, where the incident...
Airline systems back to normal after outage: Govt
Airline systems across airports have started working normally from 3 am on Saturday, said the ministry of civil aviation. "Flight operations are going smoothly now. There is a backlog because of disruptions yesterday (Friday), and it is getting cleared gradually,"...
Ratna Bhandar of Puri Jagannath temple reopened for shifting of valuables
The Ratna Bhandar, the revered treasury of the 12th-century Jagannath temple in Puri, was reopened on Thursday for the second time in a week for shifting of valuables to a temporary strong room, officials said. The treasury was reopened at...
Badri-Kedar head tells Shankaracharya: Move SC
Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee Chairman Ajendra Ajay responded on Wednesday to allegations made by Swami Avimukteshwaranand, Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath, who claimed that 228 kilograms of gold were stolen from the Kedarnath Temple. Speaking exclusively to ANI, Ajay said that Swami...
Maharashtra to Hand Over 4 Acres for New Bombay HC Building by Sept 10
On July 15, the Maharashtra government informed the Supreme Court that a 4.39-acre land parcel in Bandra Kurla will be vacated and handed over to the Bombay High Court by September 10 for the construction of a new High Court...
