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MSP regime has assured 1.5 times more price to farmers: Sitharaman
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) regime has undergone a change to assure price to farmers that is at least 1.5 times the cost of production across all commodities.
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Finance Minister proposes to increase FDI limit to 74 pc in insurance comp
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday proposed to amend the Insurance Act 1938 to increase the permissible Foreign direct investment (FDI) limit from 49 per cent to 74 per cent in insurance companies and allow foreign ownership and control with
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Union Budget: FM proposes to set up central university in Leh
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): For accessible higher education in Ladakh, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday proposed to set up a central university in Leh, while presenting Union Budget 2021-22.
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Rs 15,700 cr provided for MSME sector in Union Budget
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has made a provision of Rs 15,700 crore for the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector in the Union Budget 2021-22.
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Union Budget 2021: Govt to set up Development Finance Institution, to lend
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced that the Central Government will set-up "professionally managed" Development Finance Institution (DFI) capitalised with Rs 20,000 crore aiming to have a lending portfolio of at least Rs 5 lakh crore
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Finance Minister allocates Rs 1,10,055 cr for Railways
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced that the central government is allocating Rs 1,10,055 crores for Railways.
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Union Budget: Mega Investments Textile Parks scheme to be launched to crea
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): A scheme of Mega Investments Textile Park will be launched in addition to the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme which will create world-class infrastructure with plug and play facilities to enable global champions in exports, said Union Finance
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Union Budget: Voluntary vehicle scrapping policy announced to phase out ol
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced a voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and unfit vehicles under which the personal vehicles will undergo a fitness test in automated centres after 20 years while the commercia
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Quoting Tagore, FM says India poised to be land of promise, hope in post-C
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): While quoting Rabindranath Tagore at the beginning of the Union Budget 2021, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday marked the start of post COVID world in her budget speech -- she termed as the ''dawn of a new era".
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Union Budget introduces Rs 64,180 cr scheme to upgrade healthcare infrastr
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced a new Centre-sponsored scheme with an outlay of Rs 64,180 crore to boost healthcare infrastructure across the country amid ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Urdu Bulletin: Union Budget 2021-22, Mann ki Baat, farmers' protest domina
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Various Urdu newspapers led with the Union Budget 2021-22 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament on Monday.
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Rahul Gandhi will be in Parliament during Union Budget presentation
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be present in Lok Sabha on Monday during the presentation of Union Budget by Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, sources said.
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