New Delhi: The government Tuesday proposed to fully exempt three cancer medicines from custom duties. "To provide relief to cancer patients, I propose to fully exempt three more medicines from customs duties," Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said while presenting the Union Budget for 2024-25 in...
New Delhi: The government Tuesday said it will set up an 'Anusandhan National Research Fund' to support basic research and prototype development in universities, colleges, research institutions, and R&D laboratories. A mechanism to spur private sector-driven research and innovation at commercial scale will also be...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Tuesday announced abolishing angel tax for all classes of investors in startups. In her Budget speech, she also announced various changes with respect to tax rates for e-commerce players and certain financial instruments in the context of long-term capital...
New Delhi: The government Tuesday slashed customs duties on a range of products, including gold, silver, critical minerals, mobile phones and other electronic items, to cut input costs, increase value addition, promote export competitiveness and boost domestic manufacturing. The duties were also reduced on Shea...
New Delhi: The march of AI casts a "huge pall of uncertainty" over impact on workers across skill levels, the Economic Survey said Monday as it cautioned that alongside other factors this will create barriers to sustained high growth rates for India in coming years...
New Delhi: US smartphone major Apple assembled 14 per cent of global iPhones in India in FY24 and the country's ranking in global electronics export improved by four positions, Economic Survey 2023-24 said Monday. The Survey, tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharamn, said...
New Delhi: The domestic pharmaceutical industry needs skill advancement, innovation and a strong supply chain with the segment size expected to touch USD 130 billion by 2030, said Economic Survey 2023-24 tabled in Parliament Monday. The Indian pharmaceutical market is currently valued at around USD...
New Delhi: The government has decided to allocate 5 per cent of Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) for research and development of telecommunications technology, said the Economic Survey 2023-24 tabled in Parliament Monday. At present, the government has a corpus of around Rs 80,000 crore...
New Delhi: The government has cleared the consideration of a private member's bill that seeks to grant every citizen the right to free internet access while ensuring equal access to people from backward and remote regions of the country. "No citizen shall be liable to...
Kozhikode: The 14-year-old boy from Kerala's Malappuram, who was undergoing treatment here for Nipah infection, died Sunday, state Health Minister Veena George said. George said the boy from Pandikkad suffered a massive cardiac arrest at 10.50am Sunday and efforts to revive him failed. "He was...
Former Enforcement Directorate (ED) chief Sanjay Kumar Mishra has been appointed a full-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to...
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AI “agents” are coming, whether we are ready or not. While there is much uncertainty about when AI models will...
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A political earthquake has shaken France and rattled Far-Right parties across the globe after a French court on 31 March...
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A global trend being seen for some time now is the rise of Far-Right outfits taking advantage of the frustration...
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