Updated Jan 06, 2021 | 22:08 IST
Earlier, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had indicated that the upcoming Budget will concentrate on infrastructure growth, amid uncertainty on several fronts because of the Covid-induced disruptions PM Modi to meet top economists on Friday as govt gets into top gear to finalise Budget proposals. | Photo Credit: BCCL
New Delhi: Measures to pull the economy out of contraction and stimulate it through infrastructure spending are likely to be the main areas of discussion during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with economists ahead of the Union Budget 2021-22 on Friday (January 8).
Earlier, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had indicated that the FY22 Budget will concentrate on infrastructure growth, amid uncertainty on several fronts because of the Covid-induced disruptions. “Hundred years of India wouldn t have seen a budget being made post a pandemic like this,” the finance minister had sa
Updated Dec 30, 2020 | 16:00 IST
His comments came a day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that diplomatic and military level talks with China have not yielded any “meaningful solution”. AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi.
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India and China have been on the brink of war since April-May this year after the People’s Liberation Army advanced provocatively towards the Line of Actual Control
The central government has restricted access to media in the war zone after tensions escalated post the Galwan Valley clash in June
Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday questioned the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre as to why reporters and news media personnel are not allowed to visit Ladakh and Depsang Valley.
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He added: “We are ready and pretty much at par with the world to roll out one of the largest vaccine programmes in the first half of 2021, under Prime Minister (Narendra Modi)’s leadership.”
At present, three Covid-19 vaccine candidates, developed by Bharat Biotech, Serum Institute of India and Pfizer, are under consideration of India s drug regulatory authority.
“Sometimes I wonder that if the pandemic had struck India just four or five years earlier, we would not have been in as good a shape as what we are today, with all the connectivity we have. The credit for that must go to our Prime Minister s Digital India vision, where he motivated the entire industry to roll out broadband in the first five years of his first term,” the RIL chairman said.