New Delhi: Expressing commitment to augment the country’s infrastructure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said projects for building 8,500 km of highways will be awarded by March 2022. While presenting the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament, the finance minister said poll-bound West Bengal will see highway projects worth Rs 25,000 crore. “To further augment […]
New Delhi: The government on Monday announced a Rs 18,000 crore scheme to augment public transport in urban areas. In the first paperless Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said there will be 100 per cent electrification of broad gauge rail tracks by December 2023. She also said a record Rs 1,10,055 crore will be […]
New Delhi:To push growth via infrastructure creation, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday hiked the government’s capital expenditure for FY 2021-22 by 34.5 per cent to Rs 5.5 lakh crore. The government’s planned capital expenditure for the current fiscal has been increased to Rs 4.39 lakh crore, as against the Budgeted Rs 4.12 lakh crore. […]
New Delhi: The government on Monday announced the Jal Jeevan mission with an outlay of Rs 2.87 lakh crore for 4,378 urban local bodies. Presenting the Union Budget for 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman further said Swachh Bharat 2.0 will be implemented with an outlay of Rs 1,41,678 crore over a period of five years. […]
New Delhi:Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said the government’s Aatmanirbhar packages totalling Rs 27.1 lakh crore to deal with the COVID pandemic, accelerated the pace of structural reforms. In the first ever paperless Union Budget, Sitharaman also proposed the introduction of Aatmanirbhar health programme with an outlay of Rs 64,180 crore. This will be […]
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday approved the Budget 2021-22, sources said. The Budget will be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a short while from now in the Lok Sabha. In a first, the Budget 2021-22 would be in a paperless format. Press Trust of Indiakashmirreader.com
New Delhi: With11,427 new coronavirus cases being reported in a day, India’s COVID-19 tally has increased to1,07,57,610,while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease has surged to 1,04,34,983, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The national recovery rate surged to 97 per cent. The death toll increased to1,54,392with […]
Srinagar:Residents of Kashmir got a major respite from the intense cold wave conditions on Monday as the minimum temperatures across the Valley rose by several degrees amid fresh snowfall in many areas, including Srinagar, officials said. A thin layer of snow on city roads, caused inconvenience to the motorists due to the snowfall since Sunday […]
Srinagar:A farewell function was organised on the occasion of superannuation of Er. Abdul Rashid Bhat, Executive Engineer, Mechanical Division Srinagar and Er. Harpal Singh Talvar, Executive Engineer, Mechanical Division Baramulla. Both the Executive Engineers retired on 31st January 2021, after a long and illustrious career in public service. The function was attended by Chief […]
Washington:Alarmed over the coup in Myanmar and the detention of the country’s top political leaders, including State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, by the military on Monday, the US has said it is monitoring the situation closely and threatened unspecified action if corrective steps are not taken to restore democracy. According to media reports, an […]