SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday said he will not fight from Majitha assembly seat and will only contest from Amritsar East from where he has entered the fray against Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. Yhe former minister further said his wife Ganieve Kaur will contest from Majithia assembly segment in his place.Ganieve […]
Fifteen former bureaucrats with experience in the electoral process have been appointed as special observers for the assembly polls in five states. They will be supervising and monitoring the work being done by the electoral machinery in their assigned states and ensure that stringent and effective action is taken based on intelligence inputs and complaints, […]
Top Indian players, including senior opener Shikhar Dhawan and Shreyas Iyer, along with overseas stars such as Pat Cummins and Kagiso Rabada have been bracketed in the Rs 2 crore highest base price category for the upcoming IPL auction. The mega auction is scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on February 12 and 13 and […]
Punjab Chief Minister and Congress candidate Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday asked people of his constituency Chamkaur Sahib to make him win with a margin of at least 50,000 votes in the February 20 state assembly polls. His remarks came days after AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed that Channi was losing […]
The Union Budget has proposed Rs 2 lakh increase in Government capital expenditure and extended a Rs 1 lakh interest-free loan to states in order to target growth of 8.2 per cent in 2022-23.With anticipated growth of 9.2 per cent in the current fiscal, the economy would have recovered 101.3 per cent of the pre-pandemic […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that the government had delivered a “zero-sum budget” that has nothing for the middle class, farmers and the poor, drawing a derisive response from Union ministers who suggested that the opposition leader had not understood the “futuristic” measures. As the two sides exchanged barbs, the opposition party also […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was “people friendly, progressive” and full of possibilities for infrastructure, investment, growth and jobs.In a televised statement, Modi said an important aspect of the Union Budget was welfare of the poor. It seeks to solve contemporary problems and create […]
The Jal Shakti Ministry has been allocated Rs 86,189 crore in the Union Budget 2022-23, an increase of 24 per cent from Rs 69,052 crore given in 2021-22. In the Union Budget, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday, the Drinking Water and Sanitation Department under the ministry has been allocated Rs 67,221 crore, […]
The Ministry of Tourism has been allocated Rs 2,400 crore in the Union Budget which is 18.42 per cent higher than the allocation for the financial year 2021-22, bringing some relief to a sector ravaged by the Covid pandemic. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech extended the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) […]
A digital university to be built on the ‘hub-and-spoke’ model and expansion of ‘one class-one TV channel’ programme through 200 channels for providing supplementary education in regional languages in schools are among the major initiatives in the education sector proposed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget speech on Tuesday. The overall financial allocation […]