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Adilabad: The State government’s efforts to revive the sick unit of Cement Corporation of India (CCI) in Adilabad has rekindled hope among employees of the company which was shut down 14 years ago. IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao had on January 2 written a letter to union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and union […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Thursday urged union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to honour the 15th Finance Commission’s recommendations, revive Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) and accord National Project status to Kaleshwaram and Palamuru-Rangareddy projects. It pointed out that National Project status has not been accorded to any irrigation project in Telangana despite numerous requests, a top […]

Hyderabad: The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), which is an umbrella body of 9 bank unions, has called for a two-day strike starting December 16 to protest the government’s decision to privatise several banks in the country. Banks will be closed on December 16 (Thursday) and December 17 (Friday). While mobile and net banking […]

New Delhi: The Centre will be moving the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday for consideration and passage. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will move the Bill in the second half of the Upper House proceedings. The NDPS (Amendment) Bill, 2021 seeks amendment to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic […]

New Delhi: The government will soon bring in a new Bill on cryptocurrency after it is approved by the Union Cabinet, said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday in the Rajya Sabha. A Bill on Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency for introduction in the Lok Sabha has been included in the Lok Sabha […]

She also informed the House that the government does not collect data on Bitcoin transactions.

Hyderabad: The States are the driving force behind the country’s economic progress and the Centre must cooperate with them to compete in economic progress at international level, said IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao. He urged the Union government to extend financial support to States like Telangana which have potential to further accelerate the […]

New Delhi: As part of the government’s continuing commitment to public safety, Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has reviewed the progress made by the Customs in the safe disposal of imports, that are hazardous in nature and which remain uncleared or have been seized or confiscated. The disposal of all types of uncleared […]

Says Rs 1,383 crore pending with the Centre

There are often very good reasons for government ownership of public assets, if they are effectively used for public good

Finance Minister visited the Andhra Fine Khadi Labour Development Association, inspected the weaving processes and interacted with the artisans

The retrospective taxation, introduced by then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in 2012 as an amendment to the Income Tax Act, proved a costly policy misadventure

Lok Sabha passes Bill that allows the government to pare its stake in State-owned insurers amid uproar

In addition to this, the FKCCI demanded that the banks and financial institutions should not insist for additional collateral security while providing stimulus to other economic sectors such as garment, hospitality, education etc.

The finance minister provided Rs 23,220 crore of additional funding to set up children and pediatric care at hospitals to prepare healthcare infrastructure to deal with any emergency.

Centre’s relief package may hold promise for the long term but what India needs is urgent measures to revive demand

The Ministry of Electronics and IT has cleared 16 proposals from domestic and international companies entailing investment of Rs 11,000 crore.

As per government data, more than 1.56 lakh out of 2.5 lakh gram panchayats have already been connected and are service-ready.

The broad messages conveyed to the investors include the "significant drop" in daily Covid cases and "strong relief and reforms" undertaken by Government during the pandemic times

The portal launched on June 7 continued to face glitches, including longer logging in time, inability to generate OTP for Aadhaar validation, non-availability of ITRs for past years.