New Delhi: The Budget 2026-27 has simplified customs regime by rationalising exemptions, waiving customs duty 17 cancer drugs, while easing baggage rules and reducing duty to 10 per cent on goods imported for personal use. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Sunday unveiled a "trust-based" customs regime,...
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The government Sunday proposed dedicated corridors in mineral-rich states like Odisha and Tamil Nadu and import duty exemption on capital goods needed for processing critical minerals to boost mining and processing activities. This assumes significance in view of the government's focus on promoting...
New Delhi: The Union government Sunday announced plans to promote astrophysics and astronomy, as well as boost telescope facilities in the country. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said this while presenting her ninth consecutive Union Budget in the Parliament. “Four telescope infrastructure facilities to be...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Sunday announced an extension of basic customs duty exemption on capital goods used for manufacturing lithium-ion cells for battery storage in the annual budget for the next financial year. In her budget speech, she also proposed to exclude the...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Sunday proposed to set up three new All India Institutes of Ayurveda to strengthen research in traditional medicines. Presenting the Union Budget 2025-26 in the Lok Sabha, the finance minister said Ayurveda gained global acceptance and recognition after the...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Sunday proposed to set up five hubs for medical tourism and a Rs 10,000-crore outlay for Biopharma Shakti programme over the next five years. Presenting the Union Budget, she said, "I propose to launch a scheme to support states...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Sunday proposed to increase the outlay on electronics manufacturing to Rs 40,000 crore in the 2026-27 fiscal year. Presenting the Union Budget for 2026-27, she said high-tech tool rooms will be established at two locations to give push to...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Sunday proposed Rs 10,000 crore investment over the next five years to develop India as a biopharma manufacturing hub, set up 1,000 clinical trial sites and strengthen the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation. Biopharmaceuticals, or biologics, are complex medicines...
Mumbai: Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled in early trade Friday after a three-day rally, dragged by IT stocks and caution ahead of the Budget presentation February 1. Fresh foreign fund outflows and weak trends in global equities also added to the markets' weakness...
Bhubaneswar/Koraput: Central University of Odisha (CUO) has signed a pact with the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar, to strengthen agricultural research and outreach, officials said Wednesday. The agreement was exchanged by CUO vice-chancellor (in-charge) NC Panda and OUAT vice-chancellor Pravat Kumar Roul...
The people of Bangladesh have spoken decisively that they still believe in democracy and would not be swayed by polarising...
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By Aakar Patel There is always a shortage of nationalism in our country, because there seems to be so much...
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By Dilip Cherian For years, the civil services examination had a convenient loophole. Crack the exam, get into the IAS...
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Influential people and high dignitaries often willingly get into honey-traps or sex rackets to seek pleasure using their positions. The...
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