As India awaits today’s Union Budget presentation, the Economic Survey 2025—tabled in the Lok Sabha yesterday—paints a more complex picture than the government’s narrative of steady growth and resilience. While Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran strikes an optimistic tone, the numbers suggest otherwise. GDP growth is projected at just 6.6% for 2025, falling short…
The WHO, for which it is known since its inception in 1948, will provide lower-quality services as a result of the US withdrawal. According to public health circles, India should be prepared to invest more in pandemic preparedness, TB, AIDS, pathogen, and antibiotic resistance surveillance, among other programs. President Donald Trump announced that he is…
In the depths of the sacred Dandakarnaya forest, the noble and indomitable Prince Rama ventured alongside Sita and Lakshmana. Their journey brought them to a cluster of hermitages, a network of sanctuaries enveloped by serene nature. Around each ashram, white linen garments hung on tree branches to dry in the sunlight, appearing like clouds veiling…
The Lord Hanuman Temple in Penukonda, Andhra Pradesh, is a revered spiritual site where the idol of Lord Hanuman was installed by the respected saint Sri Sreepaada Raajaru. Known for his devotion to Hanuman and his teachings of Dvaita Vedanta, Sri Sreepaada Raajaru chose Penukonda as the ideal place to establish the temple. The temple…
New Delhi: India Inc on Friday hailed the Economic Survey saying it expects a stable macroeconomic environment and looks forward to rationalisation of the tax structure in the Budget to drive consumption through higher disposable income. Most industry experts agreed with the survey’s economic growth projection for India ranging from 6.3-6.8 percent for 2025-26, anticipating…
New Delhi: The area occupied by tigers in India has increased by 30 percent over the past two decades, a new study has found. Researchers at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, and National Tiger Conservation Authority, New Delhi, found that while tigers persisted most in highly protected “human-free, prey-rich” areas, the carnivore species were…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, accusing its “shahi parivar” of insulting President Droupadi Murmu, who hails from a tribal background. In a direct response to Congress leaders’ purported remarks on Murmu over her Friday speech, Modi, at a public meeting in Dwarka, said, “These Congress…
New Delhi: Congress leaders’ comments on President Droupadi Murmu’s address to the Parliament clearly hurt the dignity of the high office and therefore are unacceptable, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Friday. The President’s office said it believed it might be the case that these leaders were not acquainted with “the idiom and discourse in Indian…
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new building of state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) here. To be constructed in 26 acres of land, the new hospital complex will have 2,000 beds capacity in 32 lakh Sq Ft of space. The scientifically designed facility,…
New Delhi: AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal went to the Election Commission’s office here on Friday and furnished his reply to the poll body over its notice to him on his “poison mixed” in Yamuna water remark. Kejriwal was accompanied by Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and her Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann. The former Delhi chief minister…
