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"This is secularism in action, reduces corruption, prevents nepotism": Nir
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the concept of social justice was used as a political slogan in the previous governments, however, today the BJP-led Central government has adopted the idea of social justice into its governance adding that the policies of the cen
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Govt will encourage vaccination for girls to prevent cervical cancer: Nirm
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her interim budget speech on Thursday, said that the government will encourage vaccination for girls in the age group of 9 to 14 years for the prevention of cervical cancer.
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Youth scaling new heights in sports, says Sitharaman in budget speech; men
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Presenting the interim budget in Parliament, Sitharaman noted that India has over 80 chess grandmasters compared to about 20 in 2010.
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"40,000 normal rail bogies to be converted to Vande Bharat standards": FM
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The Finance Minister further said that three major economic railway corridor programmes-- energy, mineral and cement corridors, port connectivity corridors, and high traffic density corridors--will be implemented.
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"We are empowering poor, women, farmers, youth", says BJP MP Poonam Mahaja
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
"The most important thing is that before the white paper will come, the new Indian voter will definitely observe how terrible India's condition was before 2014 and what not has India achieved in the last 10 years," she added.
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Budget 2024: No change in taxation proposed
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
As expected and in relief for the citizens, the central government neither tweaked nor put any additional tax burden on citizens, in the interim Budget for 2024-25 tabled by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
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Budget 2024: Fiscal deficit target pegged at 5.1%
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Presenting the Union Budget 2023, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday pegged the fiscal deficit target for 2024-25 at 5.1 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP).
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PM SVANIDHI has provided credit assistance to 78 lakh street vendors: FM N
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
"PM SVANIDHI has provided credit assistance to 78 lakh street vendors, from that total, 2.3 lakh have received credit for the third time PM JANMAN Yojana reaches out Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups PM Vishakarma Yojana provides end to end support to artisans and craftspeople Scheme
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Indian economy witnessed profound positive transformation in the last 10 y
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
"Indian economy witnessed profound positive transformation in the last 10 years," said Sitharaman, while presenting #Budget2024 in the Parliament
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Budget 2024: Sitharaman proposes to raise capital expenditure by 11.1% to
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The government proposes to increase capital expenditure outlay by 11.1 per cent to Rs 11.11 lakh crore in 2024-25, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday as she rose to present the interim Budget, ahead of the General elections.
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"Trinity of democracy, demography and diversity can fulfill aspirations of
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday asserted that the BJP-led government at the Centre has worked with an approach to development that is "all-round, all-inclusive and all-pervasive" ('sarvangin', 'sarvasparshi' and 'sarvasamaveshi') and said that the trinity of "Democracy, De
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Indian economy witnessed tremendous transformation in past 10 years, says
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The Indian economy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has witnessed a profound transformation in the last 10 years when the government took several pro-people reforms that were structural, said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, as she rose to present the interim Budget for 2024-25.
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