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Jaitley rejects claims on joblessness as ‘economic absurdity’
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [USA], Feb 1 (ANI): Rejecting claims about high unemployment in India as “disinformation”, Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said it would be “economic absurdity” to believe that jobs are not being created at a time when the country is witnessing high
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Budget raises allocations for major schemes
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 01 (ANI): The Interim Budget for 2019-20 announced on Friday by Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal has raised the outlay for major schemes.
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Maha CM calls budget a gift to farmers, women, middle class
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Faridabad (Haryana) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday termed the Centre's interim budget as a gift to farmers, labourers, women and the middle class.
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Direct transfer to farmers will strengthen economic condition of rural are
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday hailed the decision of transferring Rs 6000 directly to farmers account and said that this step will strengthen the economic condition of rural areas.
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Last unmanned level crossing gate was eliminated last evening: Railway Boa
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India), Feb 1 (ANI): The Railway Board on Friday asserted that 2018 was the "safest year in the history of Indian Railways".
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At Rs 3 Lakh crore, defence budget is highest ever: FM
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India), Feb 1 (ANI): Allocation for defence budget has for the first time crossed the Rs three lakh crore mark with the government setting aside Rs 3,18,931 crore for the sector in the interim budget 2019-20, which is a hike of over Rs 20,000 crore allotted last year.
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Budget 2019: Rs 3,27,679 crore for centrally sponsored schemes
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): A whopping Rs 3,27,679 crore has been proposed to be allocated to the Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) in the Budget Estimates (BE, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday while presenting the interim Budget for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha.
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7th dimension for our vision aims at outer skies: Piyush Goyal
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Underlining the success of Indian space programme, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that the seventh dimension of the government's vision for the next decade aims at the outer skies.
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Union Budget 2019: Madhur Bhandarkar, Raza Murad welcomes provisions for
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Indian filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar and Bollywood veteran actor Raza Murad hailed the central government’s announcement of 'single-window clearance' for Indian filmmakers to shoot their films- a provision that was earlier available only to i
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Govt committee to identify nomadic communities
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Government will set up a panel under NITI Aayog to identify de-notified nomadic and semi-nomadic communities and implement programmes for their welfare, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced while presenting the budget on Friday.
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Budget 2019: 2% interest subvention for MSMEs on loan up to Rs 1 Cr
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): In a bid to strengthen the Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSMEs), Finance Minister Piyush Goyal launched a scheme to sanction loans upto Rs 1 crore in 59 minutes on Friday in the last budget of the current Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) government.
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Budget 2019: Centre to improve expenditure efficiency, improve tax collect
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The Central government will focus on improving expenditure efficiency and improve tax collections to ensure that the economy moves back to the fiscal deficit path as mentioned in the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act, Finance Minister Piyu
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