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Indian economy to grow 7% in FY25, robust expansion to drive insurance premium growth, says Moody’s
``India's private sector insurers continue to reinforce their...
Resilience is key to thriving in today’s volatile world: WEF CEO
According to the white paper, as volatility and compounding risks...
India targets infrastructure spending in growth budget
Seven engines of the PM Gati Shakti initiative are roads, Railways, airports, ports, mass transport, waterways and logistics infra. Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for achieving Aatmanirbhar Bharat has received an excellent response, with the potential to...
Nobody losing jobs due to non-vaccination, Centre tells SC
"What is urgent is the vaccine mandate because people are losing their jobs. They are losing their rations," advocate Prashant Bhushan said, arguing that people are not able to move around freely due to these vaccine mandates Opposing this argument, Solicitor General...
Economic Survey showcases development using satellite, geo-spatial images
A new chapter, 'Tracking Development through Satellite Images and Cartography', demonstrates the use of satellite and geo-spatial images to gauge various economic phenomenon such as urbanisation, infrastructure, environmental impact and farming practices, among...
Economic Survey: Climate finance will remain critical to successful climate action:
According to the survey, India's performance on the NITI Aayog SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) India Index has improved from an overall score of 60 in 2019-20 to 66 in 2020-21. It said the figures "show progress" in India's journey towards achieving the SDGs New...
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...
Govt mandates storage of ISD, satphone, message details, others for 2 yrs
"The licensee shall maintain all commercial records, call data record, exchange detail record, IP detail record with regard to the communications exchanged on the network. Such records shall be archived for at least two years for scrutiny by the licensor for security...
Govt extends tenure of IPO-bound LIC’s chairman for 1 more year
M R Kumar, Chairman, LIC With the extension, M R Kumar will continue as chairman of LIC till March 2023, the sources said. Besides, the government has also extended the tenure of one of the managing directors, Raj Kumar, for one year. New Delhi: The government has...
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...