The fiscal deficit which was 2.90 per cent of GSDP in 2013-14 was expected to touch 2.92 per cent during 2014-15, which is below three per cent limit set by the Centre, he said while replying to discussion on the budget in the state assembly.
He termed the Budget as “revolutionary” that fulfils promises held out in Congress election manifesto.
Mariyam Kauser, the three-year-old victim of medical negligence was shifted to the intensive care unit again at the Malathi Manipal hospital from the special ward, three days back.
Dr. Sudarshan Ballal, director, Manipal Hospital, said that “the child has temperature which might be due to viral fever. However, she is being examined for any other infections. Her condition is stable.” It may be recalled that Mariyam was out of coma and had shown signs of movement last week.Courtesy:Karnataka Muslims
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Mr. Qamarul Islam, minister for Minority Welfare and Waqf informed the Legislative Council that the department would commence survey of all waqf properties and complete by end of October, here on February 25.
The Ideal Group of Institutions celebrated its 13th Annual Day at Ideal Campus, Basavakalyan on February 16. It was a spectacular feast for the eyes with attractive campus decoration and enthusiastic teachers and students in its midst.
Two sailors are still missing on the accident-hit INS Sindhuratna submarine, official sources said Thursday.
An official said the condition of the submarine has been described as safe.
“We shall attempt to open the sealed compartments where the two missing sailors are believed to be trapped and hope to rescue them,” the official, requesting anonymity, told IANS.
Seven Indian Navy personnel were injured and two went missing early Wednesday after smoke filled up a compartment aboard the INS Sindhuratna submarine.
Former Lok Sabha member Karuna Shukla, the niece of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who quit the BJP last year, will join Congress on Thursday.
In an embarrassment to the BJP ahead of Lok Sabha elections, Shukla met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Wednesday and is expected to be welcomed into the party fold at the Congress headquarters today.
Shukla had resigned from the BJP last year, alleging she was being “continuously neglected” by senior leaders.
New Zealand had a record number of overseas visitors last month, thanks to the Chinese New Year holiday, the government statistics agency announced Thursday.
The number of visitors last month was up 12 percent year-on-year to 292,400, the highest ever for a January month, according to Statistics New Zealand.
“New Zealand saw more visitors arrive from China and Hong Kong this month, compared with January 2013, due to the earlier timing of Chinese New Year,” population statistics manager Andrea Blackburn said in a statement.
Former Lyon coach Alain Perrin is reported to be the Chinese national football team’s new head coach and a confirmation from the Chinese Football Association (CFA) is awaited.
A web company quoted CFA’s vice president Yu Hongchen saying that the 57-year-old Frenchman Perrin will take over from caretaker Fu Bo, who has been in charge of the team after Antonio Camacho was sacked following a humiliating 1-5 friendly loss to Thailand.
Do you see any connection between gold and caffeine? If combined, these two can become a potential tool in fighting cancer, a study showed.
Researchers put the two together into certain configurations to see whether the new caffeine-based gold compounds could selectively stop cancer cells from growing without hurting other cells.
It was a pleasant Thursday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded a notch above season’s average at 13.0 degrees Celsius. The Met Office forecast rain in the afternoon.
“Partly cloudy sky with spells of rain in some parts of the city could be recorded,” an India Meteorological Department official said.
The city recorded 0.3mm of rainfall Wednesday.
The maximum temperature Thursday is likely to hover around 24 degrees Celsius.
Humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 97 percent.
The Board of cement manufacturer India Cements Ltd today approved the amalgamation of Trinetra Cement Ltd and Trishul Concrete Products with the company.
“The Board of Directors at the meeting held today approved the proposal for amalgamation of Trinetra Cement Ltd and Trishul Concrete Products with India Cements Ltd subject to all regulatory approvals,” city-based India Cements said in a statement.
Government will file an affidavit in the Supreme Court pleading that field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops be allowed, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said today.
The minister assured that the government will take all safety precautions for conducting field trials of GM crops.
Hearing a petition against GM crops, the Supreme Court had set up a technical expert committee (TEC), which suggested an indefinite moratorium on such trials unless shortcomings in the regulatory process were plugged. But one member gave a dissenting note opposing the moratorium.
Despite Telangana issue, the Housing Sentiment Index (HSI) for Hyderabad increased by 22 per cent to 101 points during the October-December quarter, breaking a largely negative streak to end close to neutral, according to an assessment by IIM Bangalore and Magicbricks.
The IIMB MB HSI is a sentiment index of the Indian real estate market that aims to capture buyer ‘mood’ and indicates residential real estate market performance.
Film: “Shaadi Ke Side Effects”; Cast: Vidya Balan, Farhan Akhtar, Vir Das and Purab Kohli; Director: Saket Chaudhary; Rating: ****
“When I do something wrong, I say sorry to my wife. When my wife does something wrong…. I say sorry to my wife.”
One of the gems that flows out of Farhan Akhtar’s mouth while addressing the oldest question on the gender equation: what does a woman really want in a marriage? Could it be the same things as a man? Maybe the route taken by the two individuals is different?
Bags are prohibited from this year’s Boston Marathon for security concern following last year’s deadly bombing, authorities announced.
Marathon runners typically are allowed to bring bags or backpacks to keep personal items.
But this year, runners will not be allowed to bring backpacks or bags, which will also not be allowed in certain areas near the start or finish line, or along the 26.2-mile course, Xinhua qupoted the Boston Athletic Association as saying Wednesday.
Ten years ago, on May 18, 2004 to be precise, the Central Hall of the Indian parliament witnessed political theatrics of an exceptional variety. Two hundred Congress leaders extremely dejected, feeling almost orphaned, desperately pleading with Congress president Sonia Gandhi to reconsider her “renunciation”, sat on one side of the rectangular table.
Ten years is a long time in the history of a political party. Since memories have faded, it is instructive to recall.
BJP Prime Ministerial nominee Narendra Modi today accused Congress-led UPA government at the Centre of pushing the country into the “dark age” by mismanaging the power sector.
“During the UPA regime, power plants which could have produced 20,000 MW of electricity are lying closed down…They have pushed us in the dark age,” he said after dedicating to nation the country’s largest solar power plant at Bhagwanpura near here.
The 130 MW plant by Welspun Energy Pvt Ltd. Is located on 1000 acres.
BJP today slammed Union Minister Salman Khurshid for describing Narendra Modi as “impotent” and asked him to apologise for the “regrettable” and “shameful” comment, saying it only reflects the Congress party’s “desperation”.
BJP leaders said Congress and its leaders have “forgotten manners and etiquettes” and asked if Sonia Gandhi approved of this comment.
Amid indications of a tie-up with BJP for Lok Sabha polls, Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP is meeting today to take a final call on the issue.
A meeting of the LJP Parliamentary Board is being held at a time when the party is unhappy with the delay in firming up seat-sharing arrangement with Congress and RJD.
Chirag Paswan, son of LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, who also heads the Parliamentary Board, has already said there is “distress” in LJP over the way the seat-sharing issue has been dragging with Congress and RJD.
The BJP is likely to come out with its first list of Lok Sabha candidates on Thursday when the party’s top leadership discusses its candidates at a meeting of its Central Election Committee.
Senior party leaders LK Advani, Rajnath Singh, Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Murli Manohar Joshi besides others will meet here to discuss and finalise the party’s list of candidates.
The Delhi High Court today said former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit will have to defend herself in a graft case and did away with Delhi government pursuing the appeal filed by her administration in 2013 against the trial court order for lodging an FIR against her.
Days before resigning, the Arvind Kejriwal government had on February 14 (when it resigned) moved the High Court seeking to take back the appeal filed by then Congress government headed by Dikshit.
Union Minister Milind Deora has said a lot would have been different for the UPA government and the Congress party if Rahul Gandhi had got into government five years back.
A lot would be different for Rahul also in terms of him being able to say that he has experience, the Minister of State for Communications and IT said.
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Refugees in India can avail of free treatment facilities at any of the 45 private hospitals in the national capital which have been identified by Delhi government to render such services, the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) has said.
Replying to a Delhi-based lawyers’ group which has alleged that a Myanmarese refugee was denied treatment by a south Delhi private hospital, DHS clarified that the designated private hospitals cannot deny free assistance to any refugee who came under the EWS category.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly wants Virat Kohli to win the Asia Cup, which he believes would help regular skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni to come out of his comfort zone and reinvent himself as a captain.
“I want Virat (Kohli) to win this tournament (Asia Cup),” Ganguly told a news channel here today.
“This would help Dhoni to come out of the comfort zone and help him to reinvent himself as a captain,” he explained.