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The Union Budget has once again “betrayed” the people of the national capital, Delhi Finance Minister Atishi said on Tuesday, asserting that despite paying over Rs 2 lakh crore in taxes to the BJP-led Centre, the city government did not get even a single penny as its share in central taxes. Addressing a press conference…
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has cut key rates to aid growth. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Sri Lanka’s central bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points in a surprise decision on July 24 to support economic growth and propel the South Asian nation out of its worst financial crisis in decades. The…
Humanitarian agencies were scrambling on July 23 to send desperately needed aid to a remote area of southern Ethiopia where a landslide has killed more than 200 people in the deadliest such disaster recorded in the Horn of Africa nation. Crowds gathered at the site of the tragedy in an isolated and mountainous area of…
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman receives a warm welcome from BJP women workers on her arrival, at the party headquarters, in New Delhi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman signals shift from earlier trickle-down strategy to a slew of schemes Presenting her seventh Union Budget and the first after this year’s…
File picture of Sri Lankan municipal workers carrying a body of a COVID-19 victim for cremation in Colombo, Sri Lanka | Photo Credit: AP  Sri Lanka on Tuesday apologised for enforcing a “cremations only” policy during the Covid-19 pandemic, going against the religious sentiments of Muslims, as well as expert views that burials were safe….
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns for President as the presumptive Democratic candidate during an event in Wisconsin | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris opened up a marginal two-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. That…
A doctor was booked by the police in Pune district of Maharashtra after a woman allegedly died during illegal abortion, an official said, reported the PTI. According to the PTI, a case of culpable homicide has been registered against a Navi Mumbai-based doctor who allegedly conducted an illegal abortion procedure during which a 25-year-old woman…
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle enters a House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing on the security lapses that allowed an attempted assassination of Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The director of the Secret Service said on July…
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Ukraine’s Foreign Minister was in China on July 23 for talks on how officials there might help end the war with Russia, whose ties with Beijing have grown stronger since the conflict began. China presents itself as a neutral party in the war and says it…
