New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Modi Government’s nine priorities and four pillars to take the country forward as she presented the Union Budget for the year 2024-2025 in the Parliament this morning. She said, the Government will make sustained efforts on nine priorities for ‘Viksit Bharat’, listing them as productivity and resilience…
Parliamentary milestone with seventh consecutive Budget
July 23, 2024New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman achieved a Parliamentary milestone this morning by presenting her seventh consecutive Budget, a feat previously achieved only by C.D. Deshmukh 68 years ago. Both Deshmukh, who presented Budgets between 1951 and 1956, and Nirmala Sitharaman have presented six full Budgets and an interim Budget each. Two of Deshmukh’s Budgets…
Governor seeks report on MUDA site scam
July 23, 2024Bengaluru: In response to the public demand for a transparent investigation into the 50:50 site distribution scam at the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), where wealthy and influential politicians have allegedly benefited, Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has sought a report from the State Government. The site scam has come to light over the past month…
Dasara-2024 from Oct. 3 to Oct. 12: DC chairs preliminary meeting
July 23, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Ahead of Naada Habba Mysuru Dasara-2024, Deputy Commissioner (DC) G. Lakshmikanth Reddy chaired a preliminary meeting of District-level Officers at his Office in Siddarthanagar today. Dasara is scheduled to begin with the puja atop Chamundi Hill on Oct. 3 and culminate with Jumboo Savari on Vijayadashami Day on Oct. 12. Today’s meeting was the…
Everyone involved in MUDA scam will be safe, says Prathap Simha
July 23, 2024CM Siddaramaiah should have surrendered 14 sites before ordering a probe; instead, he is demanding Rs. 62 crore Mysore/Mysuru: Former Mysuru-Kodagu MP Prathap Simha has stated that the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) irregularities have a history spanning nearly five years, including during the term of the BJP Government and expressed scepticism about the ongoing…
Maharshi Valmiki Corporation Scam: Congress holds protest against ED in Vidhana Soudha
July 23, 2024Accuses the Central Agency of pressurising a State Government official to falsely implicate CM, Dy.CM and MLA Nagendra Bengaluru: The Congress Party Legislators, including the Ministers, led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, staged a protest in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue in Vidhana Soudha premises here this morning, accusing the…
HDK also a beneficiary of MUDA alternative site: KPCC Spokesperson
July 23, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: KPCC Spokesperson M. Lakshmana has turned the tables on Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK), accusing the latter of also being a beneficiary of alternative site at Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA). Addressing a press meet in city on Monday, Lakshmana vowed to disclose all before the media in Bengaluru, about the way HDK opted…
Expired snacks, beverages dumped along Varuna Canal
July 23, 2024Thousands of toxic materials, cartons of energy drinks threaten public safety and environmental health Mysore/Mysuru: Thousands of expired and toxic snack packets, flavoured milk, energy drinks, fruit and aerated beverage pouches, mini containers and bottles from reputed manufacturing companies have been irresponsibly dumped by miscreants on Varuna Canal embankment near Shanthaveri Gopalagowda Nagar. The banks…
4,000 houses to be allotted in KR Constituency in the next three years: MLA Srivatsa
July 23, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Krishnaraja (KR) Constituency MLA T.S. Srivatsa has assured to take measures to allot 4,000 houses to houseless in the next three years. He was speaking during a programme organised to symbolically distribute the title deeds, release of rights documents and No Objection Certificates (NOC), to the beneficiaries of Ashraya Houses of KR Constituency —…
7 Budgets, 7 Sarees: Tribute to India’s handloom heritage
July 23, 2024New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman wore an off-white Mangalgiri saree with a magenta border from Andhra Pradesh to present the full Budget for 2024-25. Earlier in Feb. 2024, she wore a blue saree with Kantha stitch work, famous in West Bengal, while presenting the 2024 interim Budget. In 2023, she opted for a red…
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