In an interview to this newspaper, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the budget’s focus was a stimulus that would ‘make a difference to the economy’. The Centre’s expenditure, budgeted at 15.6% of the GDP for.
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Little is to be gained by prolonging the ongoing confrontation between a large section of farmers and the central government. The farmers have stuck, so far, to the maximalist demand of repealing the three farm.
Comedian Munawar Faruqui, after spending 35 days in Indore Central Jail and being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court on Friday, was released late Saturday night, but not before a Supreme Court judge called.