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Credit Boost For MSMEs, Loans For Women, SC/ST First-Time Entrepreneurs

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced a credit boost for MSMEs or Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, to generate employment, ...

Rs 500 Crore For AI Centres, 75,000 More Medical Seats Over 5 Years

New Delhi: To strengthen Artificial Intelligence-related education and research, the government will set up Centres of Excellence in AI with a total investment of ...

10,000 Medical College Seats Next Year, 75,000 Over Next 5: Nirmala Sitharaman

New Delhi: As many as 10,000 additional seats will be added to medical colleges across India next year, with the aim to add a ...

Government To Boost Footwear, Leather, And Toy Manufacturing Sectors

Finance Minister emphasised the importance of clean tech and broadband connectivity. New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced that a focused scheme ...

TDS To Be Rationalised, Focus On Garib, Youth, And Customs

New Delhi: The Budget 2025 will focus on garib (poor), youth, annadata (farmer) and nari (women), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharama said today, presenting her ...

Udan Scheme To Connect 120 New Destinations In Next 10 Years

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said the government will launch a modified UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) scheme to connect 120 ...

India On Way To Become ‘Viksit Bharat’, Says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

India is the world’s fastest-growing economy, and the government will ensure tremendous growth in coming years across the spectrum on the way to becoming ...

Nirmala Sitharaman Says Will Introduce New Income Tax Bill Next Week

New Delhi: A new income tax bill – a direct tax code meant to simplify compliance for individual taxpayers – will be introduced next ...

Revamped Central KYC Registry To Be Rolled Out

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting the Union Budget 2025 in Parliament today, announced that a revamped central KNow Your Customer (KYC) registry ...

Finance Minister Announces Scheme For Startups With Rs 10,000 Crore Corpus

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced another round of Fund of Funds for Startups scheme with a corpus of Rs 10,000 ...

Big Gifts For Bihar In Budget 2025 Ahead Of Assembly Polls

New Delhi: Ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls later this year, the Centre has announced big offerings for the politically significant state where it ...

Indian Railways Releases ‘SwaRail SuperApp’ For Testing. See Details

New Delhi: The Railway Ministry has released an application called SuperApp, a one-stop solution offering multiple public-facing services, on Google Play Store for testing ...