India’s parliament opened amid a political storm over fresh allegations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government bought Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to snoop on its critics. The New York Times reported on Friday that India acquired Pegasus from Israel as part of a defence deal in 2017. Similar allegations emerged last year,...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey report in the Lok Sabha on Monday, marking the first day of the Budget session of the Parliament. The Survey projected a GDP growth rate in the range of 8-8.5% for the next fiscal 2022-23 (FY23). The economy is projected to grow at...
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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blocked governor Jagdeep Dhankhar from her Twitter account on Monday, a day after he said the state had become “a gas chamber for democracy”, in signs that ties between the two leaders neared a point of no return following years of acrimony....
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha on Monday, 31 January. India will see a growth of 8 percent to 8.5 The first month of 2022 has seen 11 gunfights in the Kashmir region, in which 21 militants – eight of them Pakistanis –...
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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court transferred the Thanjavur student suicide case to the CBI on Monday, January 31. The order comes the same day that the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) team is visiting Thanjavur to conduct an inquiry into the matter. On January 19, a...
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused the opposition Samajwadi Party of inducing voters to “seek revenge” on the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, saying it was a far cry from the developmental policies of the Yogi Adityanath government. Pitching it as “Nakli Samajwad (fake socialism) versus gareeb ka...
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New Delhi: India will see an economic growth of 8 to 8.5 per cent for the coming fiscal year, down from 9.2 per cent growth estimated in the current year, the annual Economic Survey predicted a day before the Budget. The survey, tabled in parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman,...
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New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday tabled the Economic Survey 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha soon after President Ram Nath Kovind’s address to both Houses of Parliament. Ms Sitharaman will present the Budget for 2022-23 on Tuesday (February 1). The pre-Budget survey presents the state of the...
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Karimnagar (Telangana): Four women have died after a speeding car driven by a minor ran over the people sitting on the footpath in Karimnagar district of Telangana, says local police. “A case has been registered under section 304 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) on the minors travelling in the...
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Kanpur: At least five people have been killed and several injured after an electric bus lost control and mowed down several bystanders near the Tat Mill crossroad in Kanpur on Sunday, informed local police. Three cars and many bikes have been destroyed by the bus in the accident. The driver of...
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