-TheNewsMinute.com Finance Minister PTR announced that nearly six lakh girls in government schools are expected to benefit from the scheme. In a scheme that would benefit the higher education of girls studying in government schools in Tamil Nadu, Rs 1,000 will be provided as a monthly financial assistance to them till the completion of their undergraduate degree, the Tamil Nadu government announced in its budget presented on Friday, March 18. The amount...
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Afghan mineral wealth attracts competitors -Asad Mirza
-MuslimMirror.com Afghanistan’s mineral wealth might be able to help the Taliban to bankroll its developmental plans. Even when the American occupation of Afghanistan was in full steam and apart from the fighting there were mainly reports of the on-going fighting, yet there were secret reports, which spoke of the vast mineral wealth which Afghanistan possesses. There were further reports, which reported questioningly the Americans taking planeloads of soil from various regions of...
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-The Hindu Limited impact in western Uttar Pradesh’s sugarcane belt After attracting thousands of farmers from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to join a year-long agitation, farm union leaders were largely unable to leverage that mass support to tilt the results in the Assembly polls. In Punjab, the union leaders who fought the elections are set to lose their deposits. In U.P., where the wider Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) platform campaigned against the BJP...
More »NREGA Sangharsh Morcha demands a hike in MGNREGA Budget for FY 2022-23
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 30 January, 2022 The stress on the economy became evident, especially in the aftermath of the raging pandemic from the 7.3% contraction in GDP in 2020-21. The distress faced by poorer households has continued over a period of time with the pandemic acting as a catalyst in increasing the woes of such households. In a latest round of survey conducted by People’s Research on...
More »Five years since demonetisation: What has changed? -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times While demonetisation was subsequently described as a policy boost to promoting digital payments, the original policy had very different stated targets. November 8, 2021 marks five years of demonetisation in India. On this day in 2016, in a televised address at 8 pm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that currency notes of ₹500 and ₹1000 -- these two denominations were 86% of the currency in circulation at the time in...
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