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Budget 2025: FM exempts basic customs duty on 36 life-saving drugs; boosts medical tourism
Establishment of cancer care centres and enhanced social security...
Budget 2025: No income tax payable on income up to Rs 12 lakh
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman In the new tax regime, the...
Israel unveils $1.3 bln plan to reduce cost of living
In a televised address alongside Bennett, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the new plan, worth 4.4 billion shekels ($1.37 billion), would save the average Israeli family around 10,488 shekels ($3,270) a year Israel unveiled a $1.3 billion plan to reduce the...
RBI holds interest rates steady, projects 7.8% GDP growth for 2022-23
Shaktikanta Das,governor, Reserve Bank of India The monetary policy committee (MPC) held the lending rate, or the repo rate, at 4%. The reverse repo rate, or the key borrowing rate, was kept unchanged at 3.35% "Overall, taking into consideration the outlook for...
Pandemic propels workers closer to four-day week
From Iceland to Australia, governments and business are testing shorter work weeks, be it in fashion or fast food. With dozens of companies set to take part in Britain's biggest ever trial of a four-day week, joining similar pilots in five other countries, Smith is at...
India received USD 339.55 billion FDI in last 5 years
The government has recently undertaken a number of reforms across sectors. In the last one year alone, reforms in the FDI policy have been undertaken in sectors such as insurance, defence, petroleum and natural gas, and telecom India has received Foreign Direct...
Atal Pension Yojana subscriber base crosses 71 lakh
''As per information received from PFRDA, 71,06,743 subscribers have been enrolled under APY up to January 24, 2022, during the financial year 2021-22,'' Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha Subscribers under the...
Views of experts to be taken on vaccination for children below 15 years: Mandaviya
A study by ICMR released two days back showed that 99.3 per cent people who had contracted COVID-19 were safe as they were vaccinated, he said, and added this is a good indication. The government in the Budget 2022-23 has announced a national tele mental health...
Climate could be responsible for 40 million deaths before the end of the century: UN report
Climate change is also likely to become a leading cause of death worldwide, the authors warn, and could be responsible for 40 million deaths before the end of the century, even with moderate mitigation of emissions People’s sense of safety and security is at a low in...
India witnessing increasing digitisation, shift in consumers’ financial behaviour:NITI VC
Rajiv Kumar,Vice-Chairman,NITI Aayog Union Minister for Railways, Communications, and Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said the government believes in creating open platforms, such as CoWin and UPI, for healthcare, logistics, and other sectors New Delhi: India is...
India GDP estimated at Rs 147.5 lakh crore in FY22: Chaudhary
Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary In FY 2020-21, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said that as a major part of its policy response to the pandemic, the government while providing a safety net to the vulnerable sections of the society...
India ranks second in issuance of green bonds: Pankaj Chaudhary
''India has seen an increasing number of issuance in the overseas green bond market. India is currently ranked 2nd (after China) among the emerging market economies in green bonds issuance,'' Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said On Crypto he said, this...