NEW DELHI: After the Adani groups’ stocks crashed, Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani has overtaken Gautam Adani as India’s biggest billionaire. According to the Forbes list, Mukesh Ambani is the richest Indian. Currently, Mukesh Ambani is in ninth place while Gautam Adani is in fifteenth place in Forbes’ real-time billionaires’ list. After […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hailed the “first budget of Amrit Kaal” and said that it would lay a strong foundation for building a developed India. The Prime Minister said that the budget gives priority to the deprived and will fulfill the dreams of the aspirational society, the farmers and middle class. […]
NEW DELHI: During her Budget speech on Wednesday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a new investment scheme for women and girls. The ടMahila Samman Bachat Patra Schemeട was announced as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.The tenure of the scheme is two years. One can invest up to Rs.2 lakh in the scheme, which […]
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced new income tax during the Budget speech for the fiscal year 2023-24. The income tax rebate limit has been raised from Rs 5 lakhs to 7 lakhs. But this will be applicable under the new scheme. The new slab rate is as follows- 0-3 lakhs- No […]
NEW DELHI: The Union government has decided to extend the free food scheme ‘PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana’ for another year. This was announced in the Union Budget presented by the Union Finance Minister on Wednesday. The scheme will provide free 5 kg of food grains per month to 81 crore people in the country. […]
New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader Shashi Tharoor MP on Tuesday criticised President Draupadi Murmu’s address in the Parliament ahead of the Budget session. In response to Murmu’s address, Tharoor said, “The President doesn’t contest elections but it looks like the BJP government is conducting its next election campaign through her.” “The entire speech was an […]
IDUKKI: Chintha Jerome, chairperson of the Youth Commission, came to the fore reacting to the controversy related to the mention of poem ‘Vazhakkula’ (bunch of bananas) as that of poet Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon, in her research paper. ‘I’ve talked in many venues that Changampuzha Krishna Pillai’s composition Vazhakkula has had the most impact in Kerala […]
New Delhi: India’s economy is projected to slow to 6.5 per cent in the fiscal year starting April but will remain the fastest growing major economy in the world as it fared better in dealing with the extraordinary set of challenges the globe has faced, the Economic Survey 2022-23 said on Tuesday. India’s gross domestic […]
Thiruvananthapuram: Director Adoor Gopalakrishnan on Tuesday stepped down as chairman of KR Narayanan Film Institute of Visual Science and Arts (KRNNIVSA), Kottayam. On January 21, institute director Shankar Mohan had stepped down from the post following a months-long protest against alleged casteism on the campus. Adoor had backed Shankar throughout the protest and even after […]
Peshawar: A powerful suicide blast ripped through a mosque during afternoon prayers on Monday in the high-security zone in Peshawar city in Pakistan, killing at least 25 people and wounding 120 others, mostly policemen, security and health officials said. The blast occurred in the mosque in the Police Lines area around 1.40 pm when a […]