The Opposition on Wednesday staged a protest inside and outside the Parliament over alleged discrimination against non-National Democratic Alliance (NDA) states in the Union Budget 2024, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday. Members of the INDIA bloc first protested outside the Makar Dwar of the Parliament building. Then, during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, they raised slogans about alleged injustice to Opposition-ruled states. Outside, leaders of the Congress, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, along with those of the Trinamool Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Samajwadi Party…
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Maratha quota issue: BJP to bat on front foot, underline its role vs MVA’s | Political Pulse News
With an eye on the upcoming Assembly elections and in a bid to reassert its identity in the ruling alliance while countering the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), the BJP in Maharashtra has decided to shed its cautious approach on the contentious Maratha quota issue. The BJP’s core committee believes that its cautious approach on the issue has emboldened the Opposition, which is exploiting the caste-based polarisation to its advantage. “It was reflected in the recent Lok Sabha polls, where our tally fell from 23 in 2019 in the state…
SCN U/S 148 By Assessing Officer Defeats The Object of Faceless Assessment
The Punjab & Haryana High Court while indicating that the scheme of faceless assessment is applicable from the phase of SCN under section 148 as well as 148A, held that notice under section 148 could not be issued via the jurisdictional assessing officer post introduction of the faceless assessment scheme. As SCN has been issued via the revenue department under section 148 laying on the Board’s Memorandum and Instructions, the High Court explained that circulars, instructions, and letters issued by the Board or any other authority cannot override statutory provisions.…
Alert issued to people living along Mutha River after release of water from Khadakwasla Dam
With the Khadakwasla Dam filled amid the incessant rainfall, the Pune administration on Wednesday released its water into the Mutha from the dam and issued an alert to people living along the river The catchment area of the Khadakwasla Dam, which is immediately upstream of the Mutha River and cuts across the city, has been receiving good rainfall for the last few days. The rain has filled the dam and the administration has started releasing water in the river at a speed of 9416 cusecs since 7 am. People who…
James C Scott showed new ways of studying resistance
In the late 1950s, when a young doctoral researcher at Yale University left for fieldwork in a Malaysian village of 70 families, several of his friends and teachers warned that the “unglamorous” move could prove detrimental to his career. About three decades later, the experience would provide James C Scott the basis for his groundbreaking work, The Weapons of the Weak. It explored the techniques used by peasants to resist state power and launched Scott as one of the leading figures of resistance studies. Scott, who died on July 19…
Today in Politics: INDIA bloc MPs to protest in Parliament against ‘discriminatory’ Budget | Political Pulse News
Opposition INDIA bloc MPs will stage a protest in Parliament on Wednesday against the “discriminatory” Budget tabled by the Narendra Modi government. A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of the INDIA bloc allies on Tuesday after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Budget. “Today we had a detailed discussion on this budget. This budget is zero in the name of development. We will protest against this budget tomorrow outside the Parliament and raise our voice inside the Parliament. This budget is against the federal structure of…
Making sense of the Budget | Explained News
The Union Budget for 2024-25 — Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s seventh in a row and the twelfth Budget of the Narendra Modi government — departs significantly from all previous Budgets presented by this government in its approach towards managing India’s economy. Budgets serve two essential purposes. They provide details about a government’s finances, how much the government earned, how much it spent, and how much it borrowed during the past financial year, and what its projections are on all these three counts for the next financial year. Too much borrowing…
Noida Airport to Aerocity in just 66 mins? By 2030, this super-fast rapid rail will make it a reality | Delhi News
In five years, a super-fast rapid rail will take you from the upcoming Noida International Airport (NIA) to Delhi’s Sarai Kale Khan in less than an hour. Going to Delhi Aerocity, meanwhile, will take just 66 minutes. This will be made possible by the 72-km-long Rapid Rail-Metro corridor that will connect Ghaziabad RRTS station with NIA in Jewar. In a crucial step towards securing approval for the project, the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) has submitted a revised detailed project report (DPR) with changes to the Yamuna Expressway Industrial…
Health sector | Customs duty cut on 3 cancer drugs: Hope for patients | India News
In her Budget speech Tuesday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “To provide relief to cancer patients, I propose to fully exempt three more medicines from customs duties,” she said, referring to trastuzumab deruxtecan, osimertinib and durvalumab, three targeted therapy drugs with effective treatment outcomes that work by precisely identifying and inhibiting the growth of cancer cells. At present, these patented drugs, which are imported, are prohibitively expensive, costing around Rs 5 lakh a month, keeping it out of reach for most patients. Which is why, Sitharaman’s announcement – of slashing…
PMGSY stretches into 4th phase: 25,000 villages to be linked with all-weather roads | India News
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Phase IV of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) to connect 25,000 villages with all-weather roads, and allocated an outlay of Rs 19,000 crore for the financial year 2024-25. She also announced three crore additional houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in rural and urban areas. Of these, 2 crore homes will be constructed in villages under PMAY-Gramin (PMAY-G) with an allocation of Rs 54,500 crore. The Jal Jeevan Mission has been allocated Rs 69,926.65 crore, Sitharaman said in her Budget speech. While the overall…