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The organisation has its headquarters in Delhi and aims to improve the offshore security, marine safety, and coastal security along the shores.

The Finance Minister announced a cut in customs duty on the import of certain inputs for mobile phone manufacturing. Also, customs duty on parts of open cells of TV panels would be cut to 2.5 per cent.

* Railways get Rs 2.4 lakh crore, which is the highest ever allocation to it

Sitharaman said the National Rural Livelihood Mission has achieved remarkable success by mobilising rural women into 1 lakh self help groups (SHGs).

In 2022, travellers found themselves sitting poolside or catching rays on a sandy beach.

The only positive announcement was plans for skilling of manpower for manufacturing of medical technologies, he said.

She made this announcement while presenting the Union Budget for 2023-24.

A man was killed after his Mercedes car rammed into a divider, hit a tree and caught fire in Noida's Sector 93.

As per the Economic Survey 2022-23 released on Tuesday, Indian Railways has witnessed impressive growth in capital expenditure (capex) on infrastructure.

The scheme envisages providing houses for rural as well as urban poor and the massive hike in its outlay holds significance keeping in mind the fact that this is the last proper Budget of the NDA government before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The Finance Minister also proposed to change the tax structure in this regime by reducing the number of tax slabs to 5 and increasing the tax exemption limit to Rs 3 lakh.

This will offer a deposit facility upto Rs 2 lakhs in the name of women or girls for a tenor of two years at fixed interest rate of 7.5 per cent with partial withdrawal option.

While presenting the Budget 2023-24 before the Parliament, the minister said, "Digital public infrastructure of agriculture to be built as open source, opened standard, interoperable public good".

The accident took place around 5 am when the bus on its way from Solapur to Pune rammed into a stationary truck near Pune's Yavat village.

"Our focus on reforms and sound policies resulting in Jan Bhagidari helped us in trying times, our rising global profile is due to several accomplishments," she said.

A total of Rs 15,000 crore will be made available to implement the scheme in the next three years." the FM announced in her Union Budget 2023 speech.

A massive fire broke out in a cloth showroom in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh on the intervening night of January 31 and February 1.

Seven priority areas of the Budget are inclusive development, reaching the last mile, infrastructure and investment, unleashing the potential, green growth, youth and financial sector.

Finance Minister Sitharaman will present the last budget of the Modi 2.0 government at 11 a.m.

Assembly elections in the state will be held in two months and Karnataka's ruling BJP is making all out efforts to return to power.

Finance Minister Sitharaman will present the last budget of the Modi 2.0 government at 11 a.m.

US Defence Department spokesperson Eric Pahon said after the meeting in Washington on Tuesday that they "discussed avenues to deepen coordination between the US and Indian militaries to address the region's increasingly contested strategic environment".

The Finance Minister will also attend the Union cabinet meeting and then present the Budget around 11 a.m.

National Security Advisers (NSA) Ajit Doval of India and Jake Sullivan of the US led the iCET meeting at which space, scientific, defence and commerce officials participated.