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| Mysterious Rajouri deaths : AIIMS Delhi team meets patients | | |  Agencies
NEW DELHI, Feb 2: A five-member team of experts from AIIMS Delhi, including specialists in toxicology, has spoken to 11 patients who are undergoing treatment for a mysterious illness that has claimed 17 lives in Rajouri district, and recorded their clinical history
The team would visit Badhaal village where three families suffered casualties due to the illness, and collect samples from their sealed homes and surrounding areas.
“The samples would be tested to know the cause of ... | |
| | | | Stakeholders welcome Centre’s push for homestays via Mudra loans | | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI, Feb 2: The Centre’s move to promote homestays as part of its broader push for tourism development has been welcomed by stakeholders, with many saying it could help boost local economies and create employment opportunities.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget speech on Saturday, announced that homestays would be eligible for Mudra loans, a move aimed at supporting small-scale hospitality businesses in rural and semi-urban areas.
The initiative is expected to provide financial assistance to individuals looking to establish or expand homestays, particularly in popular and emerging tourist destinations.
K Syama Raju, president of the Federation of ... | |
| | | | Gender Budget up by 37.5% this year: Govt | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Feb 2: The ‘Gender Budget’ allocation has seen a sharp increase, reaching Rs 4.49 lakh crore, in this year’s Union Budget, a 37.5 per cent rise from last year’s allocation, the Women and Child Development Ministry said on Sunday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech on Saturday, announced that the ‘Gender Budget’ made up 8.86 per cent of the total budget. Last year’s allocation was Rs 3.27 lakh crore, which was 6.8 per cent of last year’s total budget.
This year’s budget also witnessed a record number of ministries and departments reporting allocations under the Gender Budget Statement (GBS). Forty-nine ministries and departments, along with fiv... | |
| | | | ‘Budget is by the people, for the people’ | | | | New Delhi, Feb 2: Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday described the Union Budget as “by the people, for the people, of the people”, and said Prime Minister
Narendra Modi was fully behind the idea to cut taxes but it took time to convince the bureaucrats.
“We have heard the voice of middle class” who had been complaining about their aspirations not being met despite being honest taxpayers, she said.
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| | | | PM Modi extends greetings | | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI, Feb 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday wished people on the auspicious occasions of Basant Panchami and Saraswati Puja.
“Best wishes on the auspicious occasions of Basant Panchami and Saraswati Puja,” Modi said in a post on X.
The festivals heralds the arrival of spring and are dedicated to Goddess Saraswati, the symbol of knowledge.... | |
| | | | Boy killed, sister injured in wall collapse | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 2: An 11-year-old boy was killed and his younger sister injured when the wall of an under-construction mud house collapsed in a remote village in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said.
The accident occurred at Paundal village in the Lathi area when a group of labourers was busy in construction work at Ashok Kumar's mud house, they said.
One of the walls collapsed and trapped Kumar’s two children who were playing there. The duo was taken to a hospital where Pradeep Kumar was declared dead while his six-year-old sister Monika Devi, who sustained serious injuries, is undergoing treatment, police said.... | |
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