Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman | Photograph Credit score: PTI
Union Finances 2024-25: Nirmala Sitharaman to current price range for report seventh consecutive time
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will current the Union Finances 2024-25 on July 23, 2024. Will probably be the seventh consecutive Finances presentation for Ms Sitharaman, a report. The monsoon session of Parliament started on July 22 with the presentation of the Financial Survey 2023-24. A complete of 20 hours have been allotted for the talk on the price range.
Main hearth on board INS Brahmaputra: One sailor lacking and the ship capsized
A sailor is lacking after a serious hearth broke out on board the Indian warship Brahmaputra on the Mumbai Naval Dockyard on July 21 afternoon, inflicting the ship to listing on its facet. “The ship’s responsibility personnel detected the hearth whereas finishing up routine upkeep work on board the ship. The ship’s firefighting crew instantly began combating the hearth and was strengthened by the Mumbai Naval Dockyard hearth brigade and different items within the neighborhood. No casualties have been reported within the incident,” the Indian Navy spokesperson stated on July 22.
Opposition questions Lok Sabha debate on Olympics preparations 4 days earlier than occasion, raises query about remedy of feminine wrestlers
On July 22, a debate on India’s preparation for the Paris Olympics was held within the Lok Sabha, which triggered questions from the opposition not solely on the timing of the talk (the occasion will start on Friday) but in addition on controversies corresponding to harassment allegations levelled by girls wrestlers in opposition to former BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. In the course of the debate, Congress MP Deepender Hooda introduced up the case of girls wrestlers. Whereas he didn’t point out Singh’s identify, Hooda stated there shouldn’t be a state of affairs the place girls wrestlers should struggle in opposition to their very own authorities and the system.
India has moved from women-led improvement to women-led improvement: Financial Survey
Noting that India is shifting from women-led to women-led improvement, the Chief Financial Adviser stated on July 22 that there was a 218.8 per cent enhance in price range allocation for ladies welfare and empowerment schemes, whilst he acknowledged that girls in India face the “motherhood penalty” with a drop within the feminine labour drive participation charge round childbearing years.
Supreme Court docket asks IIT-Delhi to resolve ‘ambiguous’ query in NEET-UG Physics examination
On July 22, the Supreme Court docket requested the director of the Indian Institute of Expertise Delhi to assign three of its prime academics the duty of fixing a tough and “ambiguous” query within the Physics paper of the NEET-UG 2024 examination inside 24 hours and submit a report. Their response would have an effect on the full marks of over 4 hundred thousand candidates, together with 44 college students who scored good marks within the examination.
Nancy Pelosi endorses Kamala Harris as Democratic presidential candidate
Prime Democratic chief and former US Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday endorsed US Vice President Kamala Harris because the social gathering’s presidential nominee after President Joe Biden stepped apart amid considerations inside his social gathering that he wouldn’t be capable of defeat Republican Donald Trump.
The Uttar Pradesh authorities has not but relocated the household of the Hathras gangrape sufferer, the Allahabad TC stated.
The Allahabad Excessive Court docket has lately been knowledgeable that the relations of the 19-year-old Dalit girl, who was gang-raped and murdered in 2020, are dealing with difficulties of their every day commute resulting from prevailing safety considerations because the Uttar Pradesh authorities has didn’t adjust to the courtroom order for her relocation.
Israeli parliament approves invoice to label UN assist company UNRWA a terrorist group
The Israeli parliament on Monday gave preliminary approval to a invoice declaring the United Nations’ predominant assist group for Palestinians a terrorist group and proposing to sever ties with the company. The vote in opposition to the United Nations Aid and Works Company (UNRWA) is the newest step in Israel’s crackdown on the company, which Israeli leaders have accused of collaborating with the Islamist Hamas motion in Gaza.
Authorities permits officers’ hyperlinks with RSS after courtroom instances in Himachal, MP
A compendium of directions, a part of a algorithm governing the conduct of public officers throughout the nation, has but to replicate adjustments led to by a July 9 workplace memorandum that banned authorities officers from associating with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its actions.
India amongst prime 25 arms exporters, financial research says
India has moved from being an arms importer to discovering a spot within the listing of prime 25 arms exporting nations, the Financial Survey revealed on Monday. Between 2015 and 2019, India had the excellence of being the second-largest arms importer on the earth, however the narrative has modified now. Defence manufacturing has grown considerably within the nation, from Rs 74,054 crore within the monetary 12 months 2016-17 to Rs 108,684 crore in 2022-23, which has boosted defence exports.