Day: February 1, 2021

Union Budget: Rs 4.78 lakh crore allocated for defence

3:48 pm February 1, 2021

New Delhi: The defence budget, including outlay for payment of pensions, was increased to Rs 4.78 lakh crore for 2021-22 as against last year’s Rs 4.71 lakh crore. Excluding the pension outgo, the allocation in the Union Budget for the armed forces stands at Rs 3.62 lakh crore. Out of total allocation, Rs 1.35 lakh […]

CBI gets over Rs 835 crore in Budget

3:44 pm February 1, 2021

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing high-ticket corruption cases and has registered over Rs 67,000 crore of bank fraud cases last year, received Rs 835.39 crore in the Union Budget on Monday, a nominal cut from Rs 835.75 crore it received as per revised estimates for 2020-21. The agency has to […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Lokpal gets nearly Rs 40 crore in Budget

3:41 pm February 1, 2021

New Delhi: Anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal has got an allocation of nearly Rs 40 crore for 2021-22 to meet its establishment and construction related expenditures, according to the Union Budget presented on Monday. The Lokpal was given Rs 74.7 crore for the ongoing fiscal, which ends in March. This has now been revised to Rs 29.67 […]

Budget's transparency on numbers will enthuse rating agencies: SBI economists

Highlights of Budget 2021-22

3:37 pm February 1, 2021

New Delhi: Following are the highlights of the 2021-22 Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on Monday: Fiscal position and health outlay: * Spending on healthcare hiked by 137 pc to over Rs 2.23 lakh crore * Rs 35,000 cr outlay for COVID vaccine in fiscal beginning April 1 * Today India […]

12-year-old boy charred to death in J-K's Samba

Man sets himself on fire near UP CM’s Office over land encroachment

3:27 pm February 1, 2021

Lucknow: Aman on Monday set himself on fire outside the Lokbhavan here to draw the attention of the Chief Minister’s Office over a land dispute issue, police said. Umashankar, 36, a resident of the Indragarh area in Kannauj district, suffered burn injuries and is undergoing treatment at a hospital, they said. The incident took place in the morning when Umashankar arrived at the Lokbhavan in […]