Documents obtained by The Wire through RTI requests reveal a series of rejections by the finance ministry of the agriculture ministry’s requests for a budget hike. Dheeraj Mishra AGRICULTURE GOVERNMENT New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Agriculture had recently demanded an increase in the budget of several major agricultural schemes in the country, citing a shortage […]
K-shaped recovery means the growing gap between ‘winners and losers’. An example in India is the stock market being healthy while millions have lost their jobs. TN NINAN Amidst the flood of commentary that followed the finding that the world’s fastest-growing large economy had become its fastest-shrinking one, an observation that stood out was that […]
After India’s PUBG ban, China ‘wants to assuage the situation so that the Indian market accepts Chinese goods and apps’. By Akshita Jain Amid strained ties between the two countries, China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe has reportedly sought a meeting with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. The Indian Express quoted sources […]
Ministers from six opposition-ruled states had filed the petition, seeking review of the court’s 17 August order to conduct the exams. Newsroom National Testing Agency (NTA) which conducts both the exams is holding JEE Main Exams from 1 September to September 6, while NEET exam will be held on September 13. The ministers had claimed […]
India’s economy contracted by 23.9% in the three months to the end of June, making it the worst slump since 1996. A grinding lockdown brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted business and left millions out of jobs, reports the BBC’s Nikhil Inamdar. For the last five months, since India imposed one of the […]
ANI Murshidabad (West Bengal) [India], September 2 (ANI): Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday demanded that Question Hour should be held in the monsoon session of the parliament, which begins on September 14. Addressing a press conference, Chowdhury, who is Congress leader in Lok Sabha, said he had told the government that Question Hour […]
ANI New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI): Opposition parties on Wednesday questioned and criticised the decision of doing away with the question hour in the forthcoming monsoon session of Parliament in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. Congress leader Shashi Tharoor sought justification of no question hour in the monsoon session. “I said four months ago […]
The Supreme Court bench said that it hoped this was the ‘first and the last’ occasion where judges have gone to the press. The Wire Staff LAW New Delhi: While sentencing senior advocate Prashant Bhushan in the case over two tweets, where the Supreme Court found him in contempt, the bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra […]
India’s economy contracted by a whopping 23.9% in the first quarter of the 2021 financial year, in what is the latest sign of the toll that the COVID-19 lockdown has taken on economic activity. Mitali Mukherjee BUSINESS ECONOMY VIDEO India’s economy contracted by a whopping 23.9% in the first quarter of the 2021 financial year, […]
The Indian Army issued a statement on Monday morning that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army “carried out provocative military movements to change the status quo” on the night of August 29-30. The Wire Staff SECURITY New Delhi: Two-and-a-half months after the violent clash at Galwan Valley, India and China are facing off at a new area on […]
