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"We welcome industries who create jobs in our state": Karnataka Dy CM DK ShivakumarKarnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar pledged the government's full support to industries that create jobs in the state. He highlig...
21 Nov, 2024, 08.33 AM IST
AICC says Karnataka cash-transfer scheme a befitting reply to centreFacing difficulty in procuring large quantities of rice required to implement the poll guarantee, the state government decided to pay cash ...
11 Jul, 2023, 12.37 AM IST
Free rice scheme: Congress says Karnataka govt has given befitting reply to Modi govtThis transfer is equivalent to the amount the state government would have paid the Food Corporation of India (FCI) had the Modi Government ...
10 Jul, 2023, 02.14 PM IST
Return BPL cards, CM B.S.Yediyurappa asks government employees, other wealthy peopleCM B.S.Yediyurappa issued the warning while reviewing the performance of the food and civil supplies and consumer affairs department in Ben...
04 Jun, 2020, 09.08 PM IST
Ecommerce companies step up discounts in bid to get rid of stockSome discounts are 3-5% higher than those at Diwali and could be aimed at clearing stock before new rules kick in.
21 Jan, 2019, 09.49 PM IST
Tripura’s drug menace was bigger than Punjab’s: Biplab Deb"Ending the drug menace in Tripura and stopping atrocities against women are two big achievements of our 6-month old government," Biplab De...
08 Sep, 2018, 11.00 PM IST
Will Ayushman Bharat do better than its predecessor schemes?As welfare schemes go, Ayushman is dwarfed by the Rs 1.43 trillion spent by the government on food subsidies under the National Food Securi...
09 Aug, 2018, 04.07 PM IST
Budget 2016: Full text of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's speechJaitley presented his third budget which took on the fiscal and physical health of the nation by setting the fiscal deficit target at 3.5% ...
29 Feb, 2016, 04.45 PM IST
Taiwan diaries: Rare snapshot into a country which in many ways is a place like no otherET Magazine’s intrepid writer spent a week there as an invitee of the Taiwanese government provides some rare snapshots.
23 Aug, 2015, 09.41 PM IST
2014: A politically eventful year for IndiaThe states of Jharkahand, Maharashtra and Haryana witnessed a regime change and Jammu and Kashmir saw a hung Parliament in the recent elect...
31 Dec, 2014, 12.23 PM IST
Will Direct cash transfer be a better reform than fuel and fertiliser subsidy?Nandan Nilekani will finalise a report to govt which could prove turning point in India's largely-failed attempt to reform its bloated subs...
04 Jul, 2011, 11.56 AM IST
- Will giving cash subsidies to poor work?
Executing the idea of cash transfer to ensure it delivers money to only those who deserve it, and in a way they can understand and access, ...
10 Mar, 2011, 12.33 PM IST
- BPL math may hold up food security efforts
The lack of consensus between the states and centre over the house-holds that will qualify for subsidised food under the proposed food se-c...
20 Apr, 2010, 05.26 AM IST
- With PDS, you con more poor
The common minimum programme (CMP) of the new coalition government promises to strengthen the Public Distribution System (PDS) and extend i...
02 Jun, 2004, 12.10 AM IST