Sidhi, Feb 16: At least 18 people, including seven women, died while 20 others went missing after a bus fell off a bridge into a canal near Patna village in Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi district on Tuesday morning, police said.
A mammoth spending plan of almost $500 billion announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is expected to jump-start growth in an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic, but may not be enough to make a dent in the rising unemployment and poverty India has battled.
India’s $500 billion budget to spur growth leaves little for the poor
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Last Updated: Feb 06, 2021, 05:31 PM IST
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Sitharaman unveiled a budget that will cause the fiscal deficit to balloon to a much higher-than-expected 9.5% in the current year ending March on the added expenditures. Stock market investors cheered the plan, hoping for an economic resurgence and celebrating the absence of new taxes on the wealthy and corporations, while bonds tumbled on worries about the record deficit.
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