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Government has spent just a little more than 40% of the budgeted amount in its biggest schemes in the first three quarters of the current fiscal and expects to spend less than 75% by the end of the year. These 53 selected schemes are those that had a budget estimate of Rs 500 crore or…
JAMMU: Over 1.7 crore tourists visited Jammu & Kashmir in 2025, including over 36,000 foreign visitors, the govt informed the assembly on Saturday.In a written reply to a starred question raised by Hasnain Masoodi, MLA, the tourism department gave out a figure of 1,77,65,390 tourists having visited the Union territory between Jan 1 and Dec…
NEW DELHI: Govt has received financial bids for the strategic disinvestment of IDBI Bank, signalling progress in the stake sale process of the lender.“They will be evaluated as per the prescribed procedure,” secretary, department of investment and public asset management (Dipam), said on microblogging site X while announcing that bids have been received. He did…
NEW DELHI: Despite a Supreme Court bench in Jan asking Centre to consider introducing a “Romeo-Juliet” clause to exempt “genuine adolescent relationships” from Pocso’s harshest provisions, govt in response to a question in Lok Sabha on Friday said “any dilution of the age of consent or introduction of exceptions would undermine child safety, increase the…
When the cut-off percentile for NEET PG was reduced to zero in 2023, private colleges benefited more than govt colleges. Around 64% of seats filled by students who scored below the initial cut-off were in private colleges. Not only that, 2,677 or about 85% of seats in clinical specialties bagged by those with scores below…
GUWAHATI: Around a dozen protesters were wounded in a clash with security forces in Manipur’s Churachandpur Thursday as initial resentment within the Kuki-Zo community over its MLA Nemcha Kipgen agreeing to be a deputy CM in the reinstated NDA govt snowballed into a backlash. The influential Kuki Zo Council declared a social boycott of any…
NEW DELHI: Government on Friday suspended three engineers from Delhi Jal Board after a 25-year-old motorcyclist died by falling into a construction pit dug by the water agency in Janakpuri area.According to the police the deceased was identified as Kamal Dhyani, who was returning home from his home on his motorcycle. Here are the top…
MUMBAI: In a boost to the startup ecosystem, govt has widened the scope of recognition of startups, extending the benefit to companies with a turnover of Rs 200 crore from Rs 100 crore earlier. This means that startups generating a turnover of up to Rs 200 crore will now get recognised, expanding the coverage of…
JAMMU: A high-powered Union home ministry panel has questioned Ladakh’s top political groupings on whether inclusion under the Constitution’s Sixth Schedule would offer sufficient safeguards, signalling that New Delhi is weighing constitutional limits, fiscal costs and governance models as demands for statehood gather force in the region.During talks Wednesday in New Delhi, the committee asked…
The government has expanded the criteria for recognising entities as startups by doubling the turnover threshold to Rs 200 crore, while also introducing a new recognition category for ‘Deep Tech Startups’, aimed at supporting high-technology and research-driven enterprises.The move is part of broader efforts to align policy support with the evolving nature of India’s startup…
