New Delhi: From Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reading out her 110-minute speech from a tablet to seating arrangements in tune with pandemic times, there were quite a few firsts during the presentation of the 2021-22 Union Budget in the Lok Sabha on Monday. Also, for the first time, the Budget went paperless and members were provided soft copies of the speech and documents. Clad in […]
Read MoreSiliguri : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday slammed the union budget as ”anti-people” aimed at deceiving the masses and said the BJP talks about nationalism, but in practice, they are the ones who are selling resources of the nation to the private players. Reiterating the demand for withdrawal of new agri laws,Banerjee wondered […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Delhi Police personnel of Shahdara district have been given iron batons to protect themselves from attacks by sharp-edged weapons, police said on Monday. The initiative was taken by station house officers (SHOs) of all 11 police stations falling under the jurisdiction of Shahdara district. Each police station distributed around 12 iron batons to its personnel, they said. […]
Read MoreKolkata: The government is banking on the organised sector which provides only 10 per cent of jobs and has ignored in the Union budget the unorganised sector which provides employment for the rest, an organisation of traders claimed on Monday. Traders and retailers who were previously ignored during the announcement of stimulus packages got disappointed […]
Read MoreNew Delhi : A whopping Rs 50,000 crore has been earmarked for the Jal Jeevan Mission in Budget 2021-22, even as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Monday announced the scheme’s urban segment that aims to provide tap water connections to 2.86 crore households. In the budget, the Drinking Water and Sanitation Department under the Jal Shakti Ministry has […]
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