Extent and scope of excise duty is so wide that nothing arrives on the shop counter from which the government has not extracted its unearned profit, wrote K H Subramaniam in 1979.
In her budget speech on 1 February, Nirmala Sitharaman proposed developing the sites into vibrant, experiential cultural destinations under the DESH scheme.
With eye on rural votebank, Telangana budget raises allocations for farmers, power & welfare schemes, while introducing new initiatives and relying on borrowings to fund growth.
Other key promises in the budget include AI- and other technology-enabled services for farmers and continuation of the Ladki Bahin Yojana, which will have the same outlay.
His very first budget laid strong emphasis on capital expenditure & infrastructure development, his goal of making Maharashtra a five-trillion dollar economy by 2047, and ensuring fiscal discipline.
After K-Rail did not get Centre’s approval, Kerala govt recently approved RRTS. Sreedharan criticised RRTS as ‘election stunt’ & called it ‘foolish venture’.
2 years after UNNATI was unveiled to accelerate industry & jobs in the region, Budget offers limited funding, with only incremental support through tourism & agarwood farming.
FM Sitharaman also announced the govt will set up 5 university townships in the vicinity of major industrial logistics centres, and set up or upgrade 4 Telescope Infrastructure.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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