NEW DELHI: Minutes after Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented Budget 2024 of Modi government 3.0, the opposition hit out at the BJP-led NDA government for only appeasing its allies N Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar.Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at the Modi government calling the budget only to “appease allies” for “kursi bachao”…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule on Monday accused Sansad TV of “censoring” the speeches of non-Hindi speakers in the Parliament by “replacing the speeches of MPs in English or regional languages with Hindi voice-overs”. The Parliamentary channel responded by calling the statement “factually incorrect”.Calling the practicing alarming, the NCP leader said, “Sansad TV…
NEW DELHI: Army troops on Tuesday thwarted an inflitration bid in the Battal sector of the Jammu and Kashmir. One Army jawan has sustained injuries during the encounter with terrorists.The operation was currently under way.“Alert troops foiled an infiltration bid by effectively engaging infiltrating terrorists with effective fire in the Battal Sector at 0300h. During…
NEW DELHI: The Economic Survey calls for strategic reforms to create a robust care economy in India to not only address the expected rise in demand for such services but address the challenge of ‘motherhood penalty‘. Childbearing and childcare is found to have a significant financial impact on women’s careers. ‘Motherhood penalty’ shows up as…
NEW DELHI: It’s underprivileged sections that powered the rise in higher education enrolment, with the growth fastest among females, says the Survey.“In higher education, the female gross enrolment ratio (GER) has been greater than male GER for five consecutive years. While this implies the rising importance of girls’ education, its translation to economic empowerment will…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday said that the Economic Survey presents an “illusion” and that India’s economy is “at its most precarious” in years.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge hit out at PM Narendra Modi, posting on X, “You were lamenting today about being ‘throttled for two-and-a-half hours’, but the truth is that your govt has crushed…
NEW DELHI: The Economic Survey 2023-24 highlighted the need to equip India’s workforce with employable skills and knowledge to meet the demands of the global labour market.With only 4.4% of the young workforce formally skilled, the survey suggested linking skill development initiatives with Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) and employment-linked incentive schemes in high-growth potential sectors such…
NEW DELHI: With defence production rising every year, India clocked the highest-ever arms exports of $2.5 billion (Rs 20,915 crore) in 2023-24, finding a place among the top 25 arms exporter nations.“…there has been a rise in the number of export authorisations issued to defence exporters. From 1,414 export authorisations in FY23, the number has…
NEW DELHI: Excessive use of social media, screen time, sedentary habits, and unhealthy food don’t just raise the risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, heart diseases and certain types of cancer. The Economic Survey 2023-24 has warned that the lethal mix of these lifestyle-related factors that is highly prevalent among India’s working-age population also…
NEW DELHI: The Economic Survey has questioned the conclusions that higher work generation and fund use under the job scheme implies rural distress, arguing that if it was so, then poorer states with higher unemployment should be leading the performance in MGNREGA as against the fact that richer states have a better record of tapping…
