Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Finance Minister The country recorded 3...
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Former RBI governor Shaktikanta Das appointed as Principal Secy-2 to PM Modi
Shaktikanta Das, Principal Secretary-2 to Prime Minister Narendra...
Economic Survey:Health sector expenditure in 2021-22 projected to be 73 per cent higher than 2019-20
The latest NFHS-5 shows that Total Fertility Rate (TFR), an average number of children per women, has further come down to 2 in 2019-21 from 2.2 in 2015-16. Sex ratio, number of females per 1000 males, in the total population has risen from 991 females in 2015-16...
Economic Survey: India needs infra investment of $1.4 trn to reach $5 tlr GDP by FY25
The Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) which is responsible for the appraisal of PPP projects has cleared 66 projects with a total project cost of Rs 1,37,218 crore from 2014-15 to 2020-21 New Delhi: In order to achieve USD 5 trillion GDP by FY'25,...
Govt to spend Rs 64,000 crore under Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission: Prez
President Ram Nath Kovind The small farmers of the country have also benefited from the new changes in the crop insurance scheme. More than Rs one lakh crore have been given as compensation to about eight crore farmers since these changes were introduced President Ram...
Economic Survey projects growth at 8-8.5% in FY2022-23
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman The gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21 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...
Global gold demand rises 10% to 4,021 tonnes in 2021: WGC
"The demand for the yellow metal was mainly driven by Central bank buying during the fourth quarter of 2021, recovery in jewellery consumption, mainly in India and China," WGC Regional CEO, India, Somasundaram PR told PTI Mumbai: Global gold demand rose 10 per cent to...
Union Budget 2022-23: Expectations on changes in income tax slabs and rates
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman In the Budget 2020-21, around 70 exemptions and deductions of different nature were removed. The finance minister had announced that the "remaining exemptions and deductions will be reviewed and rationalised in the coming years with...
FPIs pull out a whopping Rs 28,243 crore from Indian equities in Jan
With the latest pull out of funds from Indian markets, FPIs have become net sellers for fourth consecutive month ''With US Fed signalling that it will start hiking interest rates soon and shrink its bond holdings, FPIs went on a selling spree in the Indian equity...
China issues draft rules for fakes in cyberspace
The regulations provide for people to be protected from being impersonated without their consent by deepfakes - images that are virtually indistinguishable from the original, and easily used for manipulation or misinformation China's cyberspace regulator issued draft...
India adds over 2.34 lakh new COVID-19 cases, 893 deaths in last 24 hrs
The case fatality rate is 1.20 per cent. In the last 24 hours, 16,15,993 tests were conducted for COVID-19 New Delhi: India has logged 2,34,281 new COVID-19 cases and 893 deaths in the last 24 hours, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday. There was...
Two years on, India’s battle with COVID-19, its variants continues with no end in sight
Till now, India has reported 4,10,92,522 cases and 4,94,091 fatalities due to COVID-19 and its variants New Delhi: Amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, India has completed two years since the first coronavirus case was reported in the country and during this...