NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday reacted to opposition allegations that Bihar and Andhra Pradesh were preferred over other states in the Union Budget 2024, terming them ‘outragous’ in Rajya Sabha. “In every Budget, you don’t get an opportunity to name every state of this country. The Cabinet had taken a decision…
NEW DELHI: The Bangladesh government on Tuesday officially flagged objection to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee‘s recent statement on providing “shelter to helpless people”, claiming that her remarks gave room for it to be taken out of context and cause confusion between the two neighbors, local media reported.Sending an official note to New Delhi,…
NEW DELHI: With a looming international debt crisis fueled by instable political situation and Gulf crisis at the time, India had foreign exchange reserves that could “suffice to finance imports for a mere fortnight.” Thus, came the 1991 economic reforms, popularly dubbed as the liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation of the Indian economy.“I rise to present…
NEW DELHI: One terrorist was neutralized in an encounter by the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara. An army jawan was injured in exchange of fire.Indian Army’s Chinar Corps in a post on X said that one terrorist was eliminated and an NCO was injured during a joint operation launched on specific input regarding…
BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court has stayed an investigation against two senior Enforcement Directorate officers probing the multi-crore fund diversion case pertaining to Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation. Justice M Nagaprasanna passed this order after hearing a petition filed by ED deputy director (Bengaluru) Manoj Mittal and ED assistant director (Bengaluru) Murali Kannan.The petitioners…
BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court has stayed an investigation against two senior Enforcement Directorate officers probing the multi-crore fund diversion case pertaining to Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation. Justice M Nagaprasanna passed this order after hearing a petition filed by ED deputy director (Bengaluru) Manoj Mittal and ED assistant director (Bengaluru) Murali Kannan.The petitioners…
NEW DELHI: Dubbing the budget as “discriminatory and dangerous“, Congress announced that its chief ministers would not participate in the meeting of the NITI Aayog on July 27.Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said, “The budget was extremely discriminatory and dangerous, which completely goes against the principles of federalism and fairness that the Union govt must…
PRAYAGRAJ: Kaushambi Police have invoked Gangsters Act against Rajiv Nayan Mishra alias Rahul Kumar Mishra, mastermind of paper leaks in various competitive exams in Uttar Pradesh, and 22 of his accomplices.Mishra, a resident of Amaura village, had been operating an inter-state racket that leaked question papers of several competitive exams, Kaushambi superintendent of police (SP)…
PRAYAGRAJ: Kaushambi Police have invoked Gangsters Act against Rajiv Nayan Mishra alias Rahul Kumar Mishra, mastermind of paper leaks in various competitive exams in Uttar Pradesh, and 22 of his accomplices.Mishra, a resident of Amaura village, had been operating an inter-state racket that leaked question papers of several competitive exams, Kaushambi superintendent of police (SP)…
NEW DELHI: CBI reached members of NEET-UG question paper leak gang by the providential recovery by Bihar Police of a partly burnt leaked question paper, which was a printout of a mobile phone photo of the question paper taken five hours before the examination on May 5 at Oasis School in Hazaribag.Explaining the modus operandi…
