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After maintaining the status quo for small savings rates for 27 months (nine quarters), the finance ministry has hiked interest rates on some of the small savings schemes for October-December.

Syed Suhail Yaqoob As per official data, Jammu and Kashmir had 8.47 lakh hectare agriculture land in 2005-06, which has shrunken to 7.94 lakh hectare till 2015-16. This means, the loss in a decade is estimated at 53,000-hectare farmland (equivalent to 10, 60,000 kanal), which has been converted for non-agricultural activities across Jammu and Kashmir. Houses have been cropping up over the lush green paddy fields across Kashmir. This one is from Pampore In the Kashmiri language when somebody ea...

‘Grants for State Discoms will no longer be universal, but subject to milestones achieved’ February 02, 2021 × Somanathan explained why variation from Revised Estimate (RE) of previous Budget to Budget Estimate (BE) of FY21-22 is very small and when seen BE to BE, it is very big Niramala Sitharaman’s Budget proposals are more giving than taking — expenditure oriented. Expenditure Secretary TV Somanathan has played a key role in this. In conversation with BusinessLine, Somanathan expla...