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TopicPunjab budget

Topic: Punjab budget

Punjab budget: Announcing Rs 1,000 a month for women, Mann says ‘all pre-poll promises fulfilled’

‘Mukh Mantri Mawaan Dhian Satkar Yojna’ will cover about 1.3 crore women who do not pay taxes. AAP faced opposition criticism for not fulfilling its 2022 poll promise of financial aid to women.

Free power & no new taxes in AAP govt’s Punjab Budget, but fiscal consolidation roadmap missing

Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema emphasised improving ‘fiscal health’ and augmenting tax revenues in AAP govt's maiden Budget Monday, but outstanding debt expected to rise by 8.4%.

Cheaper petrol, job promise, no new taxes: Congress govt in Punjab rains sops in budget

Punjab is estimated to lose Rs 800 to Rs 1,000 crore annually on account of the VAT reduction on fuel.

Shashi Tharoor has a rival in Punjab

‘This great region has written its own history and written it in red, with the blood of its martyred sons... embedded in its fertile fields.'

On Camera

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.