The government will raise the housing loan interest deduction limit from Rs.150,000 to Rs.200,000 to revive the housing sector, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said while presenting the national budget.IANS
Rush of hill water and heavy rains have generated flash floods in vast regions of Bangladesh’s Sunamganj region.
The Surma River was flowing 57cm above the danger mark near the district, said the FLOOD Control Cell of Sunamganj Water Development Board (WDB).
Floodwater swallowed low-lying areas in Sunamganj, Sadar and Tahirpur sub-districts or upazilas, leaving 500 families stranded, reports the Daily Star.
Biswambharpur, Doarabazaar and Jamalganj upazilias were also hit by the floodwaters five days back.
Taking benefit of the slump in the American housing market, Indians spent USD 5.8 billion in FY 2014 to purchase real estate in that country, a latest report has said.
China tops the list of foreign nationals with USD 22 billion in real estate investment for the one year period ended March 2014, the National Association of Realtors said. China is followed by Canada (USD 13.8 billion); India and Britain with USD 5.8 billion each and Mexico (USD 4.5 billion), it said.
A US court has denied a request made by a Sikh rights group to file an amended complaint against Congress party president Sonia Gandhi in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) had written to US District Judge Brian Cogan requesting “leave to further amend the complaint” against Gandhi was denied by the judge?who said in his order that since the case against Gandhi was dismissed last month, there is no basis for SFJ to seek further amendment of the complaint.
U.S. spy agencies pried into e-mails of five Muslim Americans in order to identify threats to NATIONAL SECURITY, reveal documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
According to reports on the intercept, A LAWYER, professor and a political operative were among the targets.
The NSA and FBI however claimed that they had only spied on Americans since they had had a probable cause.
All five American Muslims have denied association with any terrorist groups.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is in Brazil to watch the last leg of matches of the FIFA World Cup, says he is enjoying every bit of his experience and there is nothing like watching a match from inside a stadium.
The 71-year-old actor is accompanied by his son, Abhishek Bachchan, who is equally soaked in the football spirit.
The two have watched the second semi-final match between Argentina and Netherlands in Sau Paulo.
“I can say this… the experience of sitting inside the stadium is unbelievable. Today’s game at Sau Paulo was fantastic crowd wise,” Big B tweeted.
After the completion of one month of TRS government Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao has focussed his attention towards expansion of cabinet and making appointments on various government posts. He is busy consulting with his confidantes in this connection.
With this lobbying for cabinet berth and government posts begins. Pressure is mounting up for including woman minister in the cabinet. Another Muslim representation is being recommended from some corners however KCR gave no response to the issue.
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Wiping out early gains, the BSE benchmark Sensex was trading nearly 328 points lower as selling pressure emerged soon after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley began his Budget speech.
After rising to 25,613.72 points at the outset, the Sensex slipped into negative zone by falling sharply 327.81 points, or 1.28 per cent to 25,117.00 at 1145 hrs.
All the sectoral indices led by consumer durables, power, banking and capital goods sectors led decline. The Sensex thereafter showed some recovery.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday presented the Union Budget for fiscal 2014-15 in the Lok Sabha.
The highlights are as follows:
Government to print CURRENCY notes with braille-like signs to help the blind
GST to be introduced soon; legislation process to be completed this year
Slum development to be included in CSR activities
Rs. 3600 crore for National Rural DRINKING WATER programme
Rs.500 crore fund will be set up for price stabilization
15 model rural health research centers for rural health issues
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has discovered part of the outer layer of the Sun that is sending out modestly energetic subatomic particles called fast neutrons, which flowed past Mercury into space.
The researchers said that such charged particles twirl and gyrate around the magnetic field lines created by the vast magnetic systems that surround the Sun and Earth. Neutrons, however, not being electrically charged, travel in straight lines from the flaring region and can carry information about flare processes unperturbed by the environment through which they move.
E-visa facilities will be introduced at nine airports in the next six months to attract more tourists.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced this while presenting the first national budget of the Narendra Modi government.
He said tourism helped in job creation and e-visas would encourage more tourists to visit India,
During the past year, India has relaxed its visa regime and expanded the Visa-on-Arrival (VoA) scheme to include more countries.
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Indian-American Nagi Naganathan, an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli, has been appointed interim president of the University of Toledo.
Naganathan, 58, has been at University of Toledo since 1986, first as a professor and later as chairman of the department of mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering. Board members unanimously approved his appointment.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday presented the Union Budget for fiscal 2014-15 in the Lok Sabha.
The highlights are as follows:
Government proposes to spend Rs.150 crores on new scheme to improve safety of women in big cities
Government to launch ‘Beti Bacahao Beti Padahao Yojna’ – Rs.100 allocation
Government to focus more on health sector and will set up institute of excellence
Government to set up national level institute for mental health to be set up
Shyama Prassad Mukherjee Rozgar mission to be launched
Button factories were established on large scale during the period of Asif Jah V Nawab Tahniyat Ali Khan Bahadur Afzaluddaula. Specially during the period of Nawab Mir Mahboob Ali Khan Bahadur and Asif Jah VII Mir Osman Ali Khan distinctive button were used for workers of each department. Buttons were made for high officials and dignitaries according to their position.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday said that five new IITs and IIMs will be set up across the country.
“…I also intend to set up five more IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) in Jammu, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala,” Jaitley said while presenting the budget for 2014-15.
“Five more IIMs (Indian Institutes of Management) would be set up in the state of Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Punjab and Maharashtra. I propose to allocate an amount of Rs.500 crore for this.”
A half-burnt body of an unidentified youth was found this morning from Basai Mohammadpur area here, police said.
The body, sealed in a sack, was spotted in a field in Nagla Udi by some persons after which they informed the police, circle officer Ajitendra Vijay said.
Prima facie it appears that the youth was killed somewhere else and his body was later disposed of in the area, he said.
The deceased was about 20 years old, Vijay said, adding, investigation into the case is on.
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The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to develop the picturesque and heritage-rich port city of Visakhapatnam and the district as a tourism hub.
“The state government had already started work to develop beaches between Bheemili and Visakhapatnam at a cost of Rs 50 crore, which will be completed soon,” HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao told reporters yesterday after flagging off the ‘leisure night package tour’ bus launched by the state Tourism Development Corporation (APTDC) here.
An eighteen-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth at gunpoint in Bhensaheri village here, following which a case has been registered against two persons, police said.
According to a complaint filed by the mother of the girl at Chapra Police Station, Rafik and Kalam entered the girl’s house yesterday. Kalam put the revolver on the girl’s head while Rafik allegedly raped her, SHO Arun Kumar Tyagi said.
The police has registered a case against the two in this connection, Tyagi said, adding, both the accused are absconding.
Brazil’s 7-1 World Cup thrashing by Germany in their semifinal clash has reportedly become the most discussed sports game ever on Twitter, with more than 35 million tweets.
Also on Facebook, the match triggered the highest level of conversation for any single World Cup game so far, with more than 66 million people having had over 200 million interactions and hosts Brazil dominated about a quarter of the global conversation.
Barcelona has revealed that Brazilian striker Neymar’s is recovering very well from the fractured vertebra injury that ended his 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign.
Medical staff from Neymar’s club Barcelona visited the star striker at his home in Brazil to check on the problem and the player’s recovery.
A statement from the Spanish club said that the injury is progressing very well, reported The BBC.
The statement added that Neymar would continue his treatment from 5 August and the final stage of his recovery in Barcelona.
In what could alter the textbooks, researchers have declassified dinosaurs as being the great-great-grandparents of birds.
After re-examining a sparrow-sized fossil from China, they discovered that birds did not evolve from ground-dwelling dinosaurs.
“The birdlike fossil is actually not a dinosaur, as previously thought, but much rather the remains of a tiny tree-climbing animal that could glide,” explained researchers Stephen Czerkas from Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah, and Alan Feduccia from University of North Carolina.
In what could alter the textbooks, researchers have declassified dinosaurs as being the great-great-grandparents of birds.
After re-examining a sparrow-sized fossil from China, they discovered that birds did not evolve from ground-dwelling dinosaurs.
“The birdlike fossil is actually not a dinosaur, as previously thought, but much rather the remains of a tiny tree-climbing animal that could glide,” explained researchers Stephen Czerkas from Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah, and Alan Feduccia from University of North Carolina.
A ten-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour on the diktat of a Panchayat chief in Bokaro district, the police said.
The 25-year-old rape accused allegedly dragged the girl to a nearby bush and raped her on the directive of Bhopal Pasi, the Panchayat chief of Swang Gulgulia Dhoura village in Bokaro district’s Gomia police station area, at a panchayat meeting on Tuesday evening.
Both the rape accused and Bhopal were arrested on Wednesday on the basis of the girl’s statement, Bokaro SP Jitendra Kumar Singh said.
Chanchalguda jail has nearly 252 women prisoners. The number of Muslim women prisoners is 42. Jail superintendent Basheera Begum who is serving here since 2011 told that there are many women in the jail who are permitted to stay with their young children. It must be noted that Supreme Court allows women prisoners to keep their children below 6 years of age along with them. A teacher also teaches the children of the women prisoners who stay with them.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has begun to present his maiden General Budget for the year 2014-15.
Jaitley began presenting the budget proposals for fiscal 2014-15 with the permission of Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan at 11 a.m..
He began the presentation by saying that he was doing so with the full knowledge that the people of India are passing through some tough economic times, and that the government is duty-bound to address those concerns brought on by a high fiscal deficit and a high level of subsidies.