Government

Direct tax collections for FY23 up 24.09% at Rs15.67 lakh crore

13 Feb 2023

Budget 2023-24 - Blue print for an empowered, inclusive economy

03 Feb 2023

The economic agenda for achieving the vision for Amrit Kal’ focuses on facilitating ample opportunities for citizens, especially the youth, to fulfill their aspirations, providing strong impetus to growth and job creation and finally to strengthen macro-economic stability

Persons with income up to Rs7 lakh will not have to pay INCOME tax; exemption limit raised to Rs3 lakh

01 Feb 2023

Budget projects FY24 revenue deficit at 5.9% of GDP

01 Feb 2023

Basic customs duty reduced from 21% to 13%

01 Feb 2023

Budget 2023-24: Focus on reforms through technology-driven mechanism

01 Feb 2023

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has proposed an overarching Saptarishi – 7 priorities of the government aimed at a multi-sectored focus on reforms through technology-driven and knowledge-based mechanisms during Amrit Kaal

NCMC holds emergency meeting as Uttarakhand’s Joshimath area starts sinking

11 Jan 2023

GST collection crosses Rs1.50 lakh crore for the third time in FY23 in January

01 Jan 2023

Global Hunger Index is erroneous, based on misinformation: govt

25 Oct 2022

GST collection up 26% year-on-year at Rs1,47,686 cr in September

12 Oct 2022

Centre hikes DA for employees, DR for pensioners to 38%

03 Oct 2022

Jagdeep Dhankhar to be sworn in as new Vice President on 10 August

09 Aug 2022

Dhankar, former governor of West Bengal and a senior counsel at the Supreme Court years ago, has been in politics for over 30 years since the 1990s, but had only a brief stint in government as a minister in former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar’s cabinet

Draupadi Murmu sworn in as 15th President of India

26 Jul 2022

We in India, especially those from the tribal community, take necessary resources from nature and serve nature with equal reverence, and this sensitivity has become a global imperative today, the President pointed out in her first address.

Droupadi Murmu elected President of India

22 Jul 2022

NDA’s presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu defeated rival candidate Yashwant Sinha by a margin of 947 votes, bagging 64.03 per cent of the electoral college votes against Sinha’s 35.97 per cent

Centre clears entire GST compensation of Rs86,912 crore due to states

03 Jun 2022

UK slaps 25% windfall tax on profits of oil and gas companies

30 May 2022

Robbing Peter to pay Paul is a key policy of the opposition Labour Party and this would be especially sensitive now because it undermines the core Conservative values

EPFO adds 1.41 million net subscribers in February 2022

22 Apr 2022

BJP wins 4 out of 5 states in assembly polls

14 Mar 2022

While the BJP secured 273 of the 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 47 of the 70 seats in Uttarakhand, 32 out of 60 seats in Manipur and 20 of the 40 seats in Goa, the biggest gainer was AAP, which secured 92 of the 117 seats in Punjab and emerged as the real challenge to the BJP

CCA approves Rs12,031-cr intra-state transmission corridor for renewable power

07 Jan 2022

TCIL reports Rs52.77 cr after-tax profit, pays Rs21-cr dividend to Telecom Dept

03 Jan 2022

Centre releases Rs17,000 cr as GST compensation to states/UTs

08 Nov 2021

Cabinet approves release of an additional 3% DA and DR to central govt staff, pensioners

27 Oct 2021

Govt sets up cyber lab for online capacity building on cyber law, crime investigation and digital forensics

07 Sep 2021

US Retreat Pushes Afghanistan Back Into The Dark Ages

05 Sep 2021

Not just that, the US and its allies have taken home enough of the lesser Talibans so that liberal democrats in those countries can nurture refugee-driven unrest, to challenge and destabilise governments there