NEW DELHI: The Union Budget for 2024-25 allocates Rs 1.48 lakh crore for education, employment, and skilling across the country. Presenting the Budget in the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman emphasized its focus on employment, skilling, MSMEs, and the middle class.Sitharaman announced that the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana has been extended for five…
NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced several projects for Andhra Pradesh while presenting the Union Budget 2024 in Lok Sabha. The move is likely to keep key ally Chandrababu Naidu happy who in the last few days had renewed demand for special category status to Andhra. BJP led NDA govt at…
Former IAS officer V K Pandian with Naveen Patnaik (ANI file photo) BHUBANESWAR: After a brief lull, former chief minister Naveen Patnaik once again came in support of his trusted aide, V K Pandian, on Monday. He dismissed a media report against the former bureaucrat as unfounded and false.The report had claimed that Pandian had…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP and leader of oppostion in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Monday targeted the Centre over NEET-UG paper leak issue, stating that the there is a “very serious problem” in the country’s education system. “The issue is that there are millions of students in the country who are extremely concerned about what…
More than 200 former Lok Sabha MPs, who are yet to vacate their official accommodation in Lutyens’ Delhi, have been issued eviction notices. They have been asked to surrender their bungalows at the earliest so that allotments to new members can be expedited, sources said. Former MPs are required to vacate their official houses within…
NEW DELHI: After new members’ oath-taking is completed on the first two days of Lok Sabha session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to propose the name of the new Lok Sabha Speaker on June 25 even as the BJP-led NDA, which has the majority, has still not announced its candidate’s name.The first session of…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Raul Gandhi’s decision to retain Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh prompting his sister, Priyanka Gandhi, to contest the bypolls for the Wayanad seat in Kerala sparked criticism from BJP leader Shehzad Poonawala, who accused the Congress party of operating as a ‘family business.’Poonawalla on Monday said, “Congress is not a…
BENGALURU: The Congress govt in Karnataka is in the dock again for a perceived delay in investigating a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case against BS Yediyurappa, former chief minister, BJP’s tallest functionary in the state, and veteran politician.Barely a month ago, the govt had faced immense criticism for delaying action in the…
NEW DELHI: The elections for the new Parliament Speaker are scheduled to be held on Wednesday, June 26, two days after the eighteenth Lok Sabha is set to begin. Depending on the requirements of government business, the session is expected to conclude on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, said a government press release.All the elected MPs…
NEW DELHI: Pakistan‘s opposition leader praised India conduct of the recent Lok Sabha elections and urged his country to learn from its “enemy”. Syed Shibli Faraz, an MP from Imran Khan‘s party PTI said during a government session that Pakistan “should learn from India”. “Why we can’t conduct our own free and fair elections?” asked…
