The Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Demands for Grants of various ministries in respect of the Union Budget for 2025-26.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the Union Budget this year has emerged as a blueprint for India's future, where priority has been given to infrastructure and industries in investment.
The Union government on Thursday extended the term of Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran by two years through March 31, 2027, an office order by the Department of Economic Affairs said.
The government’s 2025 Union Budget promises growth, innovation, and self-reliance.
Darjeeling MP Raju Bista met with civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu to discuss the ongoing Bagdogra Airport expansion project.
“The first budget of the third term of the successful Prime Minister Narendra Modi was presented today. The seventh budget of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is a budget of vision and determination. This budget ensures development for all”, he stated.
The allocation to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for FY 2024-25 is higher by approximately Rs one lakh crore (18.43 per cent) over the allocation for FY 2022-23 and 4.79 per cent more than allocation of FY 2023-24.
Currently, the BJP has eight MPs from the state yet the finance minister did not even mention Telangana in her Budget speech.
The BSP chief says the budget is less of a hope for 'good days' to liberate the country's poor, unemployed, farmers, women, toilers, deprived and neglected Bahujans from their troubled lives, and more of benefiting a handful of rich and wealthy people.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived in Parliament to present the Union Budget for 2024-25.
