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Israel approves USD 19 billion budget increase due to war
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The budget update anchors a projected deficit of about 6.6 per cent of GDP for 2024, and includes adjustments in the amount of about 20 billion Shekels (USD 5.6 billion) in 2024 and 2025.
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IMF mission likely to arrive in Pakistan today for economic review talks
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission is expected to arrive in Pakistan today (Wednesday) for the economic review of USD 3 billion Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), reported ARY News, citing sources.
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Current Account Deficit expected to reach year's high of 1.2 % of GDP in F
Updated : 2 years ago IST
According to a press release, this forecast represents a marginal increase from the previous quarter's deficit of 1.0 per cent of GDP and marks a year's high, surpassing the deficit recorded in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal year (3QFY23: USD16.8 billion, 2.0 per cent of GD
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Rakul and Jackky's Green Wedding: Planting Trees with Grow Billion Trees t
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 12: Rakul Preet Singh and Jackky Bhagnani, have recently celebrated their union in a wedding ceremony that not only symbolized love but also championed environmental sustainability. In collaboration with Grow Billion Trees, the couple planted trees at thei
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China maintains defence budget growth despite economic travails
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Indeed, according to figures released on the opening day of the Second Annual Session of this formal gathering of China's political leaders, the 2024 defense budget will rise 7.2 per cent to Chinese Yuan (CNY) 1.66554 trillion, which equates to USD 231.4 billion.
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Web3 Payments Platform, Zeebu, Surpasses USD 1 Billion Milestone in Q1, 20
Updated : 2 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 11: Zeebu, the pioneering payments and settlement platform revolutionizing the telecom carrier industry, today announced a monumental achievement of processing over $1 billion in transaction settlement volume.
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Taliban's decrees on Afghan women cost country over USD 1 billion annually
Updated : 2 years ago IST
US special envoy for Afghan women, Rina Amiri, emphasised that the Taliban's restrictive decrees on women and girls in Afghanistan are costing the nation more than USD 1 billion annually, reported Khaama Press.
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"India will be world's premier manufacturing, service hub": Swiss Secretar
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Lauding the USD 100-billion free trade pact between India and the four-nation bloc European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Swiss State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Helene Budliger Artieda, affirmed that India will be world's premier manufacturing and service hub.
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"Never before in the history of FTAs...": Piyush Goyal on India-EFTA Trade
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Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said that "never before in the history of FTAs has such an FTA ever happened," after India signed a USD 100-billion free trade pact with the four-nation bloc European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
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"2004-2014 was decade of decay": Maharashtra Deputy CM Fadnavis at Viksit
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Comparing the times of the earlier Congress regime with that of the Narendra Modi government, Fadnavis said, "During UPA, inflation was in double digits which has come down to 5 per cent...FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) inflow was 36 billion dollars which has come to 85 billion dollars now.
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US: Hours ahead of shutdown deadline, Senate passes USD 460 billion spendi
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The US Senate passed a package of six government funding bills worth USD 460 billion, Friday evening (local time), averting the shutdown just hours ahead of the deadline, CNN reported.
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Will change status quo in which a few billionaires have complete control o
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Addressing a largely attended public meeting on the fifty-fifth day of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra here today, Gandhi referred to five revolutionary guarantees for youth his party made yesterday, which include a first-year job guarantee (apprentice) for the youth immediately after they comple
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